Author/Illustrator James Owen at Griffin Bay Bookstore��
Wednesday, January 23 at 4pm

Award winning author and illustrator James A. Owen will appear at Griffin Bay Bookstore on Wednesday, January 23 at 4pm. Owen will draw while speaking about his new book The Search for the Red Dragon, the second book in a fantasy series for young adults entitled The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, published by Simon and Schuster. His first book, Here, There Be Dragons won numerous awards. The third book in the series is already underway and entitled The Indigo King. Owen personalizes each signed book with an illustration.

Based on a fictional early 20^th century literary adventure involving real-life Oxford classmates and children's fantasy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, the Geographica Imaginarum is a sophisticated series of tales that will appeal to ages 7 and up. In The Search for the Red Dragon, the only chance they have to save the world from a centuries-old plot is to seek out the last of the Dragonships -- the Red Dragon -- in a spectacular journey that takes them from Sir James Barrie's Kensington Gardens to the Underneath of the Greek Titans of myth. With friends both familiar and new, they will travel through an extraordinary landscape where history, myth, and fable blend together to tell the oldest story in the world. And along the way, the Caretakers of the Geographica will discover that great deeds alone do not make heroes, and that growing up may be unavoidable...but growing old doesn't have to be.

The producer of the Harry Potter movies, David Heyman, has picked up Owen's books as his next fantasy series, to be filmed at Warner Brothers. Owen will pen the screenplay adaptations. The first is scheduled to be released before the seventh Harry Potter movie.

For more information, please call Griffin Bay Bookstore at 378-5511 or log onto www.griffinbaybook.com. Griffin Bay Bookstore is located at 155 Spring Street, across the street from King's Market.