NOVEMBER EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
story and photos courtesy of PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER
Author Event – Ellery Adams
Thursday, November 12, 5:00-6:30 PM EDT | Price: Free
Registration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.
Venue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St., Beaufort
In the latest of Ellery Adams’ USA Today bestselling series, as clouds gather over the Great Smoky Mountains, an absent groom, a stolen historical document, and a book club coming apart at the seams stir up a different sort of storm in this engaging mystery. How far will one book lover go to keep a secret?
Ellery Adams is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 40 mystery novels, including the Book Retreat Mysteries; The Secret, Book, Scone Society series; and the Books by the Bay Mysteries. A native of New York, she grew up on a beach near the Long Island Sound. She now lives with her husband and two children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, so she considers herself “baked in the North and buttered in the South.” The Liars Book Club will be available for sale and signing at the event.
Lowcountry Children’s Book Fair
Saturday, November 14, 1–5 p.m. | Tanger 1 | 1256 Fording Island Road, Bluffton, SC
This year’s featured local author is Ann Lilly, creator of the enormously popular Scoot series.
Lilly will host interactive storytimes featuring her new holiday book, Scoot’s Coastal Christmas,
at 1:30, 3:00, and 4:00 p.m.
The Lowcountry Children’s Book Fair will also showcase authors from the southeast. The list includes: Kelly Byrd, Rebecca Bruff, Judy Drew Fairchild, Angela May, Katherine Robinson, Mary T. Jacobs, Kate Devlin, Doug Snelson, Helen Wilbur, and others. South Carolina’s only children’s book publisher, Lucky Rabbit Publishing, will also participate with their featured author Meredith Walker.
The Lowcountry Children’s Book Fair is presented by The Storybook Shoppe, the non-profit Pat Conroy Literary Center, and Tanger Outlets.
Keep Pat’s Legacy Alive: Give Before Year’s End
As 2026 draws to a close, we hope you will consider a year-end gift to the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Your support helps us continue Pat’s legacy by celebrating the power of stories; nurturing readers, writers, students and educators; and bringing people together through literature. Like many nonprofit organizations, we rely on the generosity of people who believe in our mission to sustain and grow our programs. In fact, 84% of all our revenue comes from individual donations-like yours. Every gift makes a difference, no matter the size, and we are deeply grateful for your support. Thank you for helping us keep Pat’s spirit and love of storytelling alive in the Lowcountry and beyond.
