Swoon City

August events calendar drop!
- 8/1 Author Signing Maia Strong
- 8/5 Writers workshop (Sold Out)
- 8/8 Stained Glass Class: Let us Blossom
- 8/9 Stained Glass Class: Impact (AKA Raindrops)
- 8/12 Needle Felting Class: Cactus
- 8/13: Musical Act: Griefcat
- 8/15 Romance Bookstore Day - free gifts & author signings Including:
- We will have three amazing authors on-site:
- Penny Reid, Author of The Winston Brothers Series
- Eliana West, Author of Mockingbird Bridge Series
- Cathy Yardley, Author of Role Playing
- We will be doing a ton of other things in store:
- 👜Be one of the first 20 people in the door and you will get a Swoon City tote, designed by local artist Odette Locke | Writer & Illustrator
- 🆓 Enter to win signed books and gifts
- 📚Spend $50 and get a free ARC or lightly damaged book (quantity limited)
- ✨ Buy a book bedazzle it for free
- 🧁Free cupcakes from Baby Cakes Bakery (while supplies last)
- 8/15 Jaysea Lynn & Devrie Brynn Donalson in conversation & book signing
- 8/17 Emotional Damage Book Club - The No Show
- 8/22 Art Class: Cyanotype Prints
- 8/22 Author Signing: Ashley McLeo
- 8/24 Historical Hellion Book Club - The Very Definition of Love
- 8/26 Art Class: Ombre Sprayed Book Edges
- 8/27-8/30 Ballard Sidewalk Sale
- 8/29: Embroidery Class: Upcycle Clothing with Hand Embroidery
- 8/31 Wrecked Romantasy - Voidwalker

Want free bookish events in this economy? Look no further than what we have going on at Swoon City!
- 7/30 No Gods West of Here release party
- 8/1 Author Signing Maia Strong
- 8/5 Writers workshop
- 8/15 Romance Bookstore Day - free gifts & author signings Including:
- We will have three amazing authors on-site:
- Penny Reid, Author of The Winston Brothers Series
- Eliana West, Author of Mockingbird Bridge Series
- Cathy Yardley, Author of Role Playing
- We will be doing a ton of other things in store:
- 👜Be one of the first 20 people in the door and you will get a Swoon City tote, designed by local artist Odette Locke | Writer & Illustrator
- 🆓 Enter to win signed books and gifts
- 🧁Free cupcakes from Baby Cakes Bakery (while supplies last)
- 8/17 Emotional Damage Book Club - The No Show
- 8/22 Author Signing: Ashley McLeo
- 8/24 Historical Hellion Book Club - The Very Definition of Love
- 8/31 Wrecked Romantasy - Voidwalker

Known for their hit: Faeries F$%^ing, Griefcat (Griefcat )will be performing their hit songs at Swoon City on Thursday 8/13 at 6:30 pm. Get Tix on our website (link in bio)

About Griefcat:
Rising musical comedy duo Griefcat emerged in 2019 as the brainchild of Annie
Nardolilli and Louisa Hall, two songwriters from Washington, DC whose shared wit and undeniable musical chemistry made their collaboration feel like fate. Now established as modern, genre-hopping troubadours unafraid of sonic experimentation, Griefcat builds on influences from Tenacious D to Dolly Parton and beyond, infusing the result with a healthy dose of campiness and a talent for tongue-in-cheek sociopolitical commentary — a winning combination that has earned them the backing of a diverse and growing fanbase, a standing ovation from Simon Cowell, 100m+ social media views, and critical acclaim from outlets including The Washington Post over a string of releases and electric live gigs to date.

Join local author Ashley McLeo (Ashley McLeo) for a book signing at Swoon City on August 22nd from noon-3pm.

Here’s a synopsis of A Kingdom of Frost and Malice
Blood slave to courtier of the Winter fae . . . You’d think I’d moved up.
I’m not so sure.
The auction block awaits and a vicious vampire prince wants me and what flows through my veins.
So I make a run for it, only to end up falling at the feet of a fae warden. Technically, Roar, the Warden of the West should return me to the vampire court, but he has other ideas.
He needs a fake fiancée.
The deal: if I play his dutiful partner at the Winter Court, and help him trick the cold King of Winter, Roar will hide me from the blood-suckers intent on draining the life from me.
I agree, and for a while, it seems like nothing can go wrong.
That is, until Vale, Warden Roar’s nemesis, sets his sights on me.

A part of me likes the warrior prince’s attentions. Luckily, the more sane part knows Prince Vale is not a fae to mess with. 

Besides, I can’t dissolve my contract with Warden Roar.  To do so would bring down the ire of the king and ruin my chances of earning my freedom. So I do my best to keep Roar and Vale from each other’s throats, all the while convincing the Winter Court of my love for Roar.

It’s official: I’m a part of the deadly game of noble houses, and losing could cost me everything.

In which two Ballard book nerds spend a day getting drinks and reading books in the Ballard Brewery district. Can you tell what order we visited these places in based on the quality of the photos?

Here are the Brewpubs and our book pairings for them:
* Urban Family - Loves a good sour, and those tend to be a bit floral and fruity so we chose, Anderson in Bloom by and The Someday Garden by Ashley Poston
* Stoup Brewing Stoup Brewing - is all about the art and SCIENCE of beer, so we choose a STEMinista novel from Ali Hazelwood and a sci-fi fave Illuminae by & Jay Kristoff
* Lucky Envelope - Makes “culturally inspired beer” so we chose Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen and One & Only by Maurene Goo . I can wholeheartedly recommend the peanutbutter stout.

Which books would you pair with these brewpubs?

We are paring back our book clubs for August as we are losing Audrey Nelson to a new job (you go puruse your dreams!).

1. Historical Hellions: The Very Definition of Love by Sophia Benoit
2. Wrecked Romantasy: Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean (read it before book 2 comes out!)
3. Emotional Damage: The No Show by Beth O'Leary

Hope you can join us for these book clubs in August or future months. RSVP for free on our website. Show us your ticket and get 10% off the book in store!

📚A quick look at our upcoming pre-orders!

Here’s what we have upcoming:
- 🥀7/28 Daggermouth by H. M. Wolfe (Charcter art & bookmark)
- 🤠7/30 No Gods West of Here by hanna gaard • romantasy author (bookmark, character art, signed) (local author)
- 🌶8/4 Devour Me (with artwork, sticker, and signed bookplate) by Emily Rath (local author)
- ᚫ 8/25 Rune Breaker by Mila Finch (signed) (local author)
- 🤐 9/1 Stalkers Anonymous by Dana LeeAnn - Author (bookmark, character art, signed bookplate)
- ☠️9/18 The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson (art print, signed bookplate)
- ❤️‍🔥9/22 Kiss of the Blck Flame by Helen Scheuerer (art print, signed bookplate)
- 🐉9/29 Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros