Meet us in the Kids' Section for an exciting author-led writing workshop perfect for your budding novelist! Local author and professor JJ Fleming will be offering a guided writing workshop that will prompt attendees to think about "How To Save The World!"

This workshop is inspired by Flemings new middle grade novel Wonders of Shadow Key--a quirky, suspenseful tale of one girl’ s fight to use her voice for good! Fleming will be signing books and each attendee will get a free book-branded sticker!

This workshop is perfect for kiddos ages 8-13!

More about Wonders of Shadow Key 

In a near-future world where hurricanes are weekly events, Eleanor escapes with her family to an abandoned beach town on Shadow Key after a storm destroys her school. There, she stumbles upon a strange and eerie discovery— a small colony of ghosts, each with their own peculiar story: a homesick pirate, a lovesick countess, the mysterious Nameless Mute Gentleman, and The Fabulous Singing Siren Sisters.

But the ghosts are in danger. Tentacled sea monsters called Oldies are stalking their souls, and with rising sea levels and more storms on the way, the ghosts’ time is running out. As a terrifying new storm approaches, Eleanor must rescue a ghost lost at sea and save her friends from the Oldies in a final, storm-chased battle of song against darkness.

JJ Fleming is the “marvelously inventive” and “highly entertaining” author of the middle grade novel Wonders of Shadow Key as well as books and stories for adults (writing as John Henry Fleming). He directs the creative writing program at the University of South Florida, where he founded the literary magazine Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art. He’s a two-time recipient of Florida Literature Fellowships and winner of the International Book Award.