This free event, nestled in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, features activities for all ages with a scavenger hunt and writing exercise, live pirates and characters, music by singer/songwriters Hot Tamale, and book readings and signings by local authors.

Your featured author lineup includes:

• Adrian Fogelin (of Hot Tamale), Crossing Jordan and Summer on the Moon
• Faith Eidse, Healing Falls and Voices of the Apalachicola
• Marina Brown, Land Without Mirrors and Lisbeth
• Martha Perritti, Take My Hand, from Italy to America and War Eagle and Texas Cherokee
• Dr. Melanie J. Barton Bragg, Quicksand: Marion's Memories Married to a Sex Addict Minister
• Pat Stanford, Fixing Boo Boo, A Story of Traumatic Brain Injury
• Sam Staley, The Pirate of Panther Bay and St. Nic, Inc.
• Saundra Gerrell Kelley, The Day the Mirror Cried
• Suzan E. Zan, Overcoming the Underhanded: The True Story of a Life Reclaimed
• William Mark, Crossing the Blue Line and Where Light Cannot Reach