Mark your calendars for a book signing with J. Ferdinand Rizza author of 'Children of the Swamp: An Urban Fisherman's Story'. Saturday, October 19th at 2:00 PM at Southwest Branch Library, 12248 Gulf Beach Hwy, 850-453-7780 The story begins as our main character, a poet, attempts to break a bad case of writer's block by taking a peaceful hiatus in Florida. Being unfamiliar with the region and its people, he accepts an invitation to go fishing with two locals and soon finds himself venturing out into the Escambia River basin alone with these newly found acquaintances. As he finds himself traveling further and further out into this vast wilderness, he realized his vulnerability and dependency on these swamp-fold. Thus the story unfolds. With his writer's block broken, his prose and poetry flow freely throughout the text, coloring it and drawing you the reader deeper and deeper into the spirit of the swamp....