
Online Facebook Spotlights and In-store Events
- Tuesday, October 14th-17th– Budge Wilson’s The Leaving & Project Bookmark Spotlight
- Tuesday, October 14-Monday, 20th– We are doing an online spotlight of Tethered Spirits by Corinne Hoebers, published by OC Publishing
- Wednesday, October 15th- 6:30 pm-7:30 pm- Locally Authored Book Club Meeting
- Monday, October 20th-26th– We are doing an online Spotlight Project Human by Bea Waters. Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Awards 2025.
- Tuesday October 21st– 5:45pm- 8pm- “In the Shadows Tea” with Deanna Foster and B.R. Myers. Deanna will be launching her new book, Shadow’s Grace, and Bethany will be discussing her book, The Third Wife of Faraday House. We will be serving Bram Stoker’s Vlad’s First Bite Berry Bliss Herbal Tea at 5:45pm, with the event to follow at 6pm. Following the event, Deanna will be offering short Tarot Readings.
- Tuesday, November 4th- Readings at the Woodside– With authors Donna Jones Alward (Ship of Dreams & When the World Fell Silent), Brenda Tyedmers (Mrs. Walford), and Susan LeBlanc (Nowhere Places) as moderator. Link: https://bit.ly/woodsidereadings
- Sunday, November 9th-3pm to 5pm- A Halifax Legal Thriller Showcase with Pamela Callow! Pamela Callow’s Kate Lange legal thriller/suspense series is set right here in HRM, with the majority of the events taking place in Halifax. Pamela’s books are compared to John Grisham’s, Robin Cook’s, or Tess Gerritsen’s.
- Thursday November 13th, 6:30pm- OC Publishing Fiction authors- Meet & Greet with Anne Louise O’Connell, Julie Strong and Jill MacLean
- Wednesday, November 19th- 6:30 pm-7:30 pm- Locally Authored Book Club Meeting
- Thursday, November 20th- 6:30pm- Lady in the Lighthouse with singer & storyteller Cindy Campbell-Stone.
Set in July 1945 in a lighthouse at the edge of a cliff at Chebucto Head, lived a woman, Catherine Gallagher. Catherine, also known as Mrs. Edward Gallagher, was known as one of the main sources for folklorist Dr. Helen Creighton. This show contains various stories from her life and eight of the forty songs that she sung for Helen.Lady in the Lighthouse has been reviewed as being: “an example of life and times long past and soon to be forgotten if not recorded in such a way that future generations can see and experience it.” And we are excited that Dartmouth Book Exchange can host this one-of-a-kind show.This program has limited seating, so advanced registration will be required by purchase of a $10- gift certificate to monitor our numbers. Gift certificates can be purchased in person, credit card by phone at 902-435-1207 or by etransfer at dbex1187@gmail.com
- Sunday, November 29th 10:30am- OC Publishing’s Children’s Authors with E.M. Gales, Ann Miller, and special guest Zeffy.
- Thursday December 4th- December 10th– Author Spotlight for Sue Murtagh and her book We’re Not Rich
- Wednesday, December 10th- 6:30 pm-7:30 pm- Locally Authored Book Club Meeting with guest author Sue Murtagh, author of We’re Not Rich.
- Tuesday, December 16th, is Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday, and we will be celebrating it in style. We will be hosting a Jane Austen Tea and featuring authors who have books inspired by one or more of Jane Austen’s novels: Michelle Helliwell, Kelly Boyce, and Nicole Northwood. All Jane Austen and romance fans are welcome to attend from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Tea will be served at 5:45pm.
We are currently limiting all our in-store author or book-themed events to:
- Already well-known, established authors that we know will draw a crowd and be of interest to our local customers.
- Or to group, and themed events, where we host several authors at once.
- Or to community groups that are interested in us hosting a particular author or themed event for their group to attend.
We do offer week-long online spotlights and book giveaways for local authors
What a Spotlight entails:
What a spotlight entails is for a week (Monday- Sunday) we do posts on our Facebook page promoting the author and book. At the end of the week, we give away a copy of the book spotlighted, provided by either the author or the publisher. The authors, in advance, provide us with any interviews, reviews, or special posts about their book or of them, that we can share. The more the author/publisher provides the more that we can post.
Dartmouth Book Exchange Events Group
Authors, bloggers, aspiring authors, reviewers, publishers, editors, professional storytellers, and other supporters of local authors are more than welcome to join our Book Events group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/899347560587433
***If you are a Local Author/ Publisher interested in having an online spotlight done on our social media pages, please contact us on our contact page. Thank-you
Our Locally Authored Book Club Exchange
We generally meet on the third Wednesday of the month from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
• Each participant will bring a locally authored novel that they have recently read and can part with. Locally authored will be defined as an author living within the Atlantic Bubble.
• During the meeting, each person will take a turn telling everyone what they liked about the book they brought and why the others should read it.
• Each book will go into a basket and at the end of the meeting, if a book sparked your interest, you’ll be able to take it home to read.
• If there is more than one person interested in reading the book, it will be brought back to the next meeting, for another person’s turn.
• We may even host an author occasionally, and Dartmouth Book Exchange may even seed the basket once in a while.
• All are welcome to come and listen during the meetings, but only the people who brought a book will be guaranteed to leave with a book.
Our Book Club aims to promote local authors, their books, and the writing of reviews. #supportlocalauthors
Meeting space
***If you are looking for a meeting place for your small group of 10 people or less, such as your book club group, we have a space. We charge a small $25 set-up and take-down fee for a 2-hour meeting, but should your group spend that or more in our store, the fee is waiv
