50th Anniversary. It’s that time of year again! The San Diego Public Library honors book-creators every year with their Local Author Exhibit. At tonight’s reception, writers of all sorts of books fanned out through the stacks, searching through dozens of glass display cases to find that one special book they can call their own. My contribution for 2015 was Galleries of Stone, Book 3: Rakefang.

If you’re from the San Diego area, you have a few weeks to get on down to the central library and...