Animal rescue operator finds story inspiration with “Adventures of Keke;” native e-book signing deliberate
Published 12:18 am Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Groves native and writer Angela Angell holds up a replica of “The Adventures of Keke the Kitten,” for which a e-book signing is deliberate Saturday at The Pompano. (Courtesy picture)
Born and raised in Groves, writer Angela Angell is returning home this week to have fun a e-book signing for her latest work at The Pompano in Port Neches.
The enjoyable is deliberate from midday to 2 p.m. Saturday on the restaurant, 330 Twin City Highway, in honor of her youngsters’s e-book sequence, “The Adventures of Keke the Kitten.”
Angell operates an animal rescue in Washington, and the books are a couple of kitten and his siblings that she rescued.
Deep roots
Angell graduated in 1986 from Port Neches-Groves High School and went to varsity in Dallas. She moved again to Groves to start out her household. A serious Port Arthur industrial closure in 2000 led to the household’s transfer to Katy, the place they lived till 2014 earlier than transferring out-of-state.
She jokes to this present day, that she bleeds purple.
“My hometown taught me the values of small-town living and family core values,” Angell mentioned. “I would have stayed in Groves if it were not for the Texaco plant selling out to Shell. I really wanted my kids to understand what it means to be from the Golden Triangle. We have pride in our town that no one understands unless you are born and raised there.”
She had preliminary plans to pursue vogue designing however all the time maintained the will to jot down youngsters’s books.
She ultimately grew to become a profitable realtor and located her method again to story telling with some assist from a couple of furry mates.
“Three years ago my buyers moved into a home, where the seller left three dozen kittens,” Angell recollects. “She calls me to help her round the kittens up to rehome. I was able to get four kittens by the time I drove over Mt. Rainier to Yakima, where she bought the home (3-hour drive for me to her home). I brought the kittens home, found all but one a home, which is Keke. He is my little muse! He is so funny. The entire neighborhood knows who Keke is. He never met a stranger. He is what sparked the idea of the series, ‘The Adventures of Keke the kitten.’”
Angell left her horses behind in Texas when her household moved to Washington.
She missed their scent, so her sister-in-law discovered a horse rescue farm that allowed Angell to assist with horses.
The expertise allowed her to work with the Bureau of Land Management on horse spherical ups.
“We started rescuing horses, then it moved to dogs, now we get mostly calls from people to rescue or surrender cats,” Angell mentioned. “We have helped many dog owners find their lost dogs; cat owners rehome their cats. It is a very fulfilling job.”
To this present day, she stays a full time realtor however admits her ardour is writing books.
“The Adventures of Keke the Kitten” is a enjoyable stuffed journey about cute cats.
She included the neighbor’s cats and her different cat, Kai, within the tales.
Part of the proceeds of each e-book offered goes to animal rescue.
Her web site is angellbooks.com, and the books are available on-line via Walmart, Target, Goodreads, Amazon and Barnes and Nobles.
