QLD Bookish Events This Weekend
- Aug 12
- 3 min read
Looking for some like-minded company? Smutty and/or fantastical? Maybe you just hope to support local storytellers. Either way, here's what's on the next few days, QLD Bookish Event style. Maybe see you there.
What's On This Thursday, Aug 13th
Frank's Social Wines & Spines with Shailee Thompson
6 - 8 PM, 153 Latrobe Tce, Paddington, SOLD OUT
Looking for a drink and a yap? Well, I was going to tell you to wander down to Frank's Paddington club tomorrow evening—the local home of gourmet deli toastes and grazing boards—to meet Author Shailee Thompson, but tickets are gone! Grieve with me. But let's also celebrate the continued and ever-rising of the horror-comedy. (Holla!).
Thompson's debut, How to Kill A Guy in 10 Dates, released by Simon & Schuster earlier this year, gives no brownie points to anyone who can guess the tongue-in-cheek inspiration. But that's the fun of it. "A killer love story"? Isn't that today in a nutshell.
The event itself was orgainsed by local gothic writer, January Gilchrist. Be sure to follow her Wines and Spines events so you don't miss out, again.
Salti Reads Launches Mads Rafferty's Chasing Hope
6 - 8:30PM, 6/38 Esplanade Bulcock Beach, Caloundra, $40
Looking for a beautiful cafe beachfront bookstore for your evening entertainment? Fan of the Icehawks series? Or college romance novels in general? Or smut that will also make you cry? Well these Salti Reads tickets include a bookmark, signed copy, and meet and greet with Author Mads Rafferty.
What's On This Saturday , Aug 15th
Romancing the Novel Opens Brisbane Store
10 - 4 PM, 89 Heal st New Farm, Free
Romancing the Novel is a romance-dedicated reader space—a Sydney's first at the time of opening late 2024—and the baby of romance author, Scarlett Hopper. Now two years on, it's amassed quite the devoted community and ready to spread its wings interstate.
Photobooths. Giveaways. Treats. Pop-Ups. And goodiebags for the first fifty customers.
Sweet Chapter Book Launch for Olivia Thomas's The Unseen Blade
11 - 12 PM, 7/366 Moggill rd, Indooroopilly, Free
Love to support new and emerging local authors? Join Olivia at Sweet Chapter Books to welcome and launch her debut romantasy novel to the wider world.
Salti Reads and Em Hardy Indie Signing for Ruined
6 - 8:30PM, 6/38 Esplanade Bulcock Beach, Caloundra, Free & Paid Options Available
Free Saturday night? Now looking for a beautiful cafe beachfront bookstore for your evening entertainment? Fan of the cowboy romance? Join Author Em Hardy as she continues on her signing tour for the launch of her latest series, Beaumont Ridge.
Tales and Tomes presents Novellous Book Pop Up SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
8 - 12PM, 6/38 Esplanade Bulcock Beach, Caloundra, Free & Paid Options Available
Novellous is a quarterly fantasy (sometimes sci-fi) subscription that promises the good stuff: Queer and Colour! Their September theme is Coffee & Magical Mayhem but they're currently on-the-road hitting a variety of shopfronts and markets, including beloved Tales and Tomes. In fact, they're original Kickstarter backers of the store!
If you're looking for a new subscription box but getting lock-in cold feet, take the chance to meet the crew and sample the goods first. They're traveling with the officially licensed Lynette Noni Shadow Reaper merchandise and more.
What's On Next Saturday, Aug 22nd
The Lanes Book Fair
9:30 - 2:30PM, California Lane, Fortitude Valley
Local Authors. Bookish Vendors. Author Panels. Yes, I am hoping to be there myself.
Presented in joint by California Lane and Tell Me How It Ends—the former being one of Brisbane's original cafes (we're talking 1950s baby); the latter Author Lauren Jone's dark-academia inspired newly-opened bookstore—this event is packed with all your local favourites: A K Mulford, Lauren Jackson, Elise Helliwell, M L Jewel, and so many more.
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Dayna is a human that makes book covers: Illustrated. Photo-Composite. Premade. And other things. Lots of other things. Art and design things. Film things. Music things. She also consumes way too much horror. Ask about her dog and she'll yap your ear off.
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