Pauline Williams gets a stack of books signed by internationally best-selling author Christopher Moore at Hearthside Books downtown on July 3.

Internationally best-selling author Christopher Moore and Hearthside Books owner Brenda Weaver pose with Moore's 2014 book "The Serpent of Venice." Moore is in Juneau to visit friend, reknowned whale photographer and Juneau resident Flip Nicklin, whom Moore got to know while researching his 2003 book "Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings." Mary Catharine Martin | Capital City Weekly