On Saturday, November 28th, 2015, we celebrate small businesses like Fiction Addiction along with self-employed and small press authors! Self published and small press authors, including some children's authors, will be signing books throughout the day. You can see the full schedule online. We're proud to be a small business, and we are proud to support our community. When you shop at local and small businesses, you help our community grow. Together, let's help strengthen our community by continuing to support the Shop Small initiative all year. This event is free and open to the public.

Greenville children's author Frederick Baus (accompanied by Roper the Ogre!) will read and sign his holiday picture book, Oh, Those Holiday Lights! (United Writers Press, paperback, $12.95), an imaginative account of the inspiration of the Roper Mountain Holiday Lights, along with Jeffrey J. Lefko, reading and signing Solomon Squirrel's Amazing Chanukah Adventure (CreateSpace, paperback, $9.49), which shows readers how different religions and cultures can interact with and accept each other for their own traditions and customs. This free event is a great way to celebrate Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day!

Greenville picture book author Melinda Long will be signing copies of her South Carolina-themed Christmas book, The Twelve Days of Christmas in South Carolina (Sterling, hardcover, $12.95), along with South Carolina author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer, who will be signing copies of her new non-partisan coloring book, 2016 Race for the White House (Warbranch, paperback, $14.95). This event is free and open to the public.

Sign up now for our 2016 Teen Writing Seminar, led by local YA author Sheri S. Levy! The five-month course will cover Plotting, Setting, Character, Conflict, Voice, and Revision. Students are also encouraged to form an optional Critique Group to meet at 4pm on the 4th Monday of each month at Fiction Addiction. *Note: The $25 registration price includes all meeting sessions and one copy of Sheri's YA novel, Seven Days to Goodbye (Barking Rain, paperback, $13.95), which she will be using as an example text. Attendees should read the novel prior to the first class on January 11th.

For our November meeting, we will be reading Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures by Jackson Pearce & Maggie Steifvater (Scholastic, hardcover, $16.99).

The Book Scouts program is designed for children ages 8 to 12.

This is our last meeting, and we will be having an awards ceremony for participants. This is a great way to celebrate Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day!

Introducing Fiction Addiction Holiday Bingo! Pick up a bingo card at the store (or download online), and bring it with you each time you shop with us from November 1st to December 15th and get a store stamp for squares as you complete them. Completing a square can involve anything from buying a themed book to attending an author event, signing up for one of our clubs to turning in your card. You're sure to find ways to get a bingo as you do your holiday shopping with us!

Win every time you get a bingo! Each bingo gives you a free book from the giveaway cart and a sweepstakes entry. Grand prize: (1) $100.00 Fiction Addiction Gift Certificate (retail value $100.00). Second prize: (1) In-stock Fiction Addiction T-shirt of your choice (retail value $29.95). Third prize: (1) In-stock Litograph of your choice (retail value $19.95). Odds of winning a prize are based on the number of entries received for the drawing.