The Nook, a bookstore and gift shop on Gloucester Main Street, will be holding an author event for Phillip Sanderson of Mathews on Saturday, April 4 from 1-3 p.m. Sanderson’s debut historical fiction novella, “Conkers, Pearls, and the Girl Who Loved Snuffy Stirnweiss,” was published in December. “I’ve been writing deliberately for maybe three years,” said Sanderson. Sanderson, a math instructor at the Chesapeake Bay Governor’s School Glenns campus, has been known in recent years to disappear into his stories for hours on end, both in writing and researching. “I kept writing, mostly short stories,” he said. “I decided to not jump into novels right away.” The idea for his debut novella began as a request from his stepmother who suggested that he “write a story about conkers for your dad.” Conkers is an old game that was popular among children in the 1940s and 1950s. “That is the most ridiculous premise I could ever come up with,” said Sanderson. The main character of the story, Bizzie Fe...