A 9-year-old author autographed copies of his book Friday, Dec. 30, at Willow Lake Golf Center.

Hudson Siemens, a 9-year-old fourth-grader at Salem’s Four Corners Elementary School, said he got his inspiration to write it from Goosebumps, a series by R.L. Stein. The book, Camp Turmoil, is fiction and set in a summer camp.