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Saturday, Nov 9 – Book Signing with Author Stella Jones

Stella Jones is a fiction author known for her prowess in curating dynamic stories and indelible personas, especially paranormal romance narrations. The talented writer leverages her unique storytelling skills and adventurous mind to deliver amazing content for her fans across the globe. Stella is a mom, wife, plastic surgeon, and all-around therianthrope of sorts who chases her dreams wherever they may lead. Her adventurous mind has produced a writer who threads aspects of her life into paranormal romance tales full of passion and spectacular, otherworldly souls and lures you into her world, leaving you breathless!
Click the link below to check out her website!

Author Collab & Swag Promo!

We are so excited to announce that the wonderful @joechianakas has partnered with Rubber Rose for a very special promo! See pictures for details ❤️
Both books are Contemporary Queer YA Fiction!
Joe Chianakas is an author, professor, and LGBTQIA+ advocate. He’s a two-time teacher-of-the-year winner and has written multiple bestselling novels. He lives in Peoria, IL with his husband, Brian, and his furbaby Bailey, a mini-Australian Shepherd ☺️
Learn more about Joe at the link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Celebrate Banned Books Week!

Banned Books Week 2024 is about liberation. Book bans disproportionately target books by authors of color and LGBTQ+ authors, threatening to further silence already marginalized groups. Books can’t set us free if we don’t set them free first! We will have a special display of brand-new books for sale throughout the week that have been challenged or banned in schools across the nation.

Saturday, September 7 – Book Discussion & Signing with Karol Lagodzki

Karol Lagodzki left Poland at twenty. His non-writing careers have ranged from fixing stucco while dangling from roofs in Paris to sorting through human cadaver heads in Jacksonville. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, Panel Magazine, NUNUM, Streetlight Magazine, and elsewhere. One of Karol’s stories won the 2020 Ruritania Prize for Short Fiction, and he has been nominated for the Pushcart and the Best of the Net anthologies. His novel Controlled Conversations was longlisted for the 2022 Dzanc Books Prize in Fiction and is available from Sunbury Press as of August 20, 2024. He holds an MFA in fiction and gives back by serving as a reader for literary journals. Karol lives halfway down an Indiana ravine with his family and a large dog.

Purchase a copy of Controlled Conversations in store or at the following link:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/controlled-conversations-karol-lagodzki/21429559?ean=9798888192061

Learn more at his website below:

https://klagodzki.com/

Celebrate With Us!

Bookstore Romance Day is almost here! Celebrate in store with us on Saturday, August 17th for a chance to win one of many available prizes (hint hint… free books ). All used romance books will be BOGO FREE, and we will have TONS of brand NEW romance books for you to purchase. I’ve spent time curating a list of diverse romance books that I know you’ll love! The Spin & Win Wheel will make an appearance for your chance to get 10%-50% off your purchase. Everyone gets a spin! Love yourself this Bookstore Romance Day

Audiobook Champions Reading Challenge!

This Prime Day, help our indie take the gold with the @librofm reading challenge 

Read as many hours of audio as you can between July 16 and 26 to receive a free audiobook credit and be entered to win a year of audiobooks and more! * Plus, new monthly members can get THREE audiobooks for the price of one with code PRIMETIME using the link below. That’s about 45 hours of audio right there!

https://libro.fm/membership/new?bookstore=rubberrosebookshop&mp=PRIMETIME 

*While participation is open internationally (including for the participation prize), only US and Canada residents are eligible for the giveaway.

Click here to download the Reading Log

Saturday, June 29th – Book Signing with Tori Barney

Tori is a Columbia College Chicago graduate and has been published in literary magazines such as Hair Trigger and Study Breaks. Her most recent book Rough Draft is a collection of poems inspired by a writing challenge to write one poem a day for twenty-one days. She’s had a love for literature for as long as she can remember and is excited for all the experiences to come within the writing world.

You can check out some of her other work here:

https://studybreaks.com/author/tori-barney-columbia-college-chicago/

Purchase a copy of Rough Draft in store or at the following link:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/rough-draft-tori-barney/21418146?aid=94254&ean=9789360944445&listref=local-authors-history-of-kankakee&