Paul Feig, creator of the two-time Emmy-nominated TV series “Freaks and Geeks,” will appear at Borders at Redmond Town Center, 16549 NE 74th St., at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12. The event is free.

He’s promoting his new children’s book “Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut!” but said he’ll also be glad to discuss his work on “Freaks and Geeks” and “The Office,” for which he’s the co-executive producer.

The hero of “Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut!” is “a 12-and-a-half-year-old kid who doesn’t fit in, feels like an outsider,” Feig explained in a phone interview. “He decides it would be a great solution to be taken away by aliens. … He builds a crappy rocket, it explodes and he ends up in another frequency.”

The story is both a comedy and an adventure and it’s targeted at the 8-to-12-year-old audience of “reluctant readers.”

And the moral of the story, said Feig, is “don’t try to run from your problems ‘cause you’ll find worse ones.”

Feig definitely can relate to Ignatius MacFarland’s troubles, he noted. Growing up near Detroit, Mich., “it was the same thing for me — I got bullied a lot.”

After seeing the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” he got into UFOs, fantasized about escaping to another universe “and spent a lot of time looking for space ships,” he confessed, laughing.

The book is based on “speculative science,” he added. “How different creatures can evolve … there are animal-ish creatures who have a basis in science.”

“I always try to do something that hasn’t been done or that I wished had been around when I was a kid,” said Feig.

“Freaks and Geeks” was inspired by his real life experiences, too. He said, “Everyone in the world, even the most popular kid, feels like they don’t fit in at some point. Everyone is trying to get by in the world and school is such a melting pot of kids.”

Feig has also directed episodes of “Arrested Development,” “30 Rock” and “Weeds.”

At his Borders appearance, he’ll read excerpts from “Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut!,” answer questions, sign books and memorabilia “and just try to be accessible,” he said.