Tickets are on sale for best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, who will speak at Trustees Theater on Tuesday, Oct. 8, , in a special appearance sponsored by the Savannah Book Festival. Sparks, author of The Notebook, Message in a Bottle and The Last Song, is visiting as part of a national tour for his new book, The Longest Ride. Tickets for the event, which begins at 6 p.m., cost $10.

Tickets are on sale now at Savannah Box Office at 912.525.5050, or online at www.SavannahBoxOffice.com.

This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2013.