Greetings Ron Rash fan! 

As we continue working on our monthly newsletter, which will include all of the new releases, summer reading, Indie Next picks, and other features you've come to expect from us, we wanted to take this opportunity to keep you abreast of all of the fantastic upcoming events we're planning!

If you are unable to make one of our author events, you are welcome to reserve signed copies by contacting us in advance, by email at info@fiction-addiction.com or by phone at 864-675-0540. Personalized copies will need to be prepaid.

June 1st - August 1st: Give Me Summer! Give Me Books! Summer Reading Program

Registration is now open for kids going into grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8. Just come to our store, grab your summer reading tracking forms (they double as bookmarks!), and pick up a few books to kick off the program! Kids need to read six books total, including at least three books from our suggested list. Turn in your form by August 1st, and join us for a Blueberry Frog fro-yo party on August 10th! Read all six books on our suggested reading list, and you can also receive a $5 Fiction Addiction gift certificate. 

Book Your Lunch with Mary Kay Andrews: Sunday, June 9th, 1pm @ City Range, $55*

Ladies' Night (St. Martin's, hardcover, $26.99) is a perfectly mixed cocktail of great storytelling, romance, mystery, and comedy from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews. When a group of women (and one man) find themselves getting together for "Ladies' Night" drinks after their weekly (court-ordered) divorce therapy sessions, heartache, humor, and a little bit of intrigue come together in a story about life's unpredictable twists and turns. *Note: The ticket price for this event includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

Book Your Lunch with Karen White: Monday, June 10th, 12pm @ Twigs Tempietto, $25

Reader favorite Karen White returns for another Book Your Lunch event with us. She's a funny and fabulous speaker as well as an award-winning Southern author. Her new novel, The Time Between (NAL, hardcover, $25.95), is a story of two generations of sisters and secrets set in the stunning South Carolina Lowcountry. A Summer 2013 SIBA Okra Pick. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

Book Your Lunch with Dorothea Benton Frank: Wednesday, June 12th, 12pm @ Thornblade Club, $55*

Bestselling South Carolina author Dorothea Benton Frank is back with her latest Lowcountry novel, The Last Original Wife (William Morrow, hardcover, $26.99, on sale 6/11/13). *Note: The $55 ticket price admits one and includes one copy of the featured book. We also have an $80 ticket, which admits two and includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

Book Your Lunch with Beth Hoffman: Wednesday, June 19th, 12pm @ The Lazy Goat, $55*

In Looking for Me (Pamela Dorman, hardcover, $27.95), bestselling author Beth Hoffman brings forth an evocative, multilayered story that moves between the charms of Charleston and Kentucky's woodlands while exposing the fragile wounds and strengths of a woman who finally comes to understand the words once written in a simple note and the remarkable boy who penned them. *Note: The $55 ticket price admits one and includes one copy of the featured book. We also have an $80 ticket, which admits two and includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

Book Your Lunch with Mary Alice Monroe: Thursday, June 27th, 12pm @ Thornblade Club, $55*

Three sisters reunite on Sullivan's Island off the coast of South Carolina after years of separation in The Summer Girls (Gallery Books, paperback, $16.00, on sale 6/25/13). This heartwarming novel is the first in a new trilogy from New York Times bestselling Southern author Mary Alice Monroe. *Note: The $55 ticket price admits one and includes one copy of the featured book. We also have an $80 ticket, which admits two and includes one copy of the featured book. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540.

Saturday, July 6th, 10am-6pm: Love Your Indie Author / Bookstore In-Store Celebration

Did you know that four of our 2012 store bestsellers were small press titles? On July 6th, we will celebrate the underdog writers . . . the mavericks and the believers! According to Wikipedia, they've got some literary royalty in their ranks and some people who, while maybe not all that literary, made a boatload of money! From Wikipedia: ". . . well-known self-publishers include Adam Croft, Stephen Leather, Stephen Crane, E. E. Cummings, Deepak Chopra, Benjamin Franklin, Zane Grey, Pat Ingoldsby, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allen Poe, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain." Come meet these brave scribe warriors who are putting themselves out there, sometimes at their own expense, because they've got a story to tell: