Online Facebook Spotlights and In-store Events
2024
Wednesday, November 6th- I Read Canadian Day!
Wednesday, November 20th- 6:30-7:30pm– Locally Authored Book Club Meeting
Saturday, November 30th- 5:45pm- 8pm- L.M. Montgomery’s 150th Birthday Tea with special guests; Briana Scott Corr who is designing beautiful new covers for the Anne Shirley series, Hope Dalvay, Mere Joyce, and Susan White who are three of the 10 young adult authors whose stories were chosen for “The ANNEthology” released this summer and Storyteller Cindy-Campbell-Stone. Raspberry Cordial Herbal Tea by NovelTea will be served at 5:45pm, with the event to follow at 6pm. Advanced registration by a purchase of a $10.00 gift certificate will be required for this event to monitor our numbers. Gift certificates can be purchased in-store, credit card by phone or etransfer.
Thursday, December 5th, 7pm- We are the Booksellers for: In Conversation with Donna Jones Alward at the Chester Playhouse Tickets can be purchased at: https://chesterplayhouse.ca/cph_events/in-conversation-donna-jones-alward
Friday, December 6th—6:00pm-8pm—Remembering the Halifax Explosion with Donna Jones Alward and her new historical fiction, When The World Fell Silent, Jennie Marsland and her historical romance Shattered, and Katie Ingram and her nonfiction, Breaking Disaster: Newspaper Stories of the Halifax Explosion. Advanced registration by a purchase of a $10.00 gift certificate will be required for this event to monitor our numbers. Gift certificates can be purchased in-store, credit card by phone or etransfer.
Wednesday, December 11th- 6:30-7:30 pm– Locally Authored Book Club Meeting
2025
Thursday, February 13th- 6:30pm-7:30pm. Galentine’s Day Blind Date With A Book, Speed Dating Night, with special guest Jane Doucet. Jane Doucet has some of the best first lines in her novels. Our Blind Date books will use their first line(s) as their pick-up lines, so Jane will be here to tell us all about them: how she comes up with these first lines, their importance, etc. She’ll also discuss her novels including customer favourite Fishnets & Fantasies. $10- preregistration is required for this event to monitor numbers. Registration ends February 12th.
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, 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 giveaway 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 waived.
