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SUMMARY:Thrill in the 'Ville Kicking Off 2026 Summerville Book Festival!
DESCRIPTION:Kick off your Summerville Book Festival experience with a super-special Friday night opener devoted entirely to THRILLS. \n\n\n\nThrill in the ’Ville brings us an electrifying evening of suspense\, secrets\, and page-turning conversation at the Flowertown Players Theatre\, headlined by Yasmin Angoe\, celebrating her new hit thriller Behind These Four Walls\, recently selected by the TODAY Show as a national February Must-Read. \n\n\n\nAngoe will be in conversation with local favorites Alex Lettau and Bob Spearman\, and moderated by acclaimed author Lorna Hollifield (Bright Little Girls). \n\n\n\nORDER HERE NOW\n\n\n\nWhat Your Ticket Includes\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n🎟 Admission to the Friday night Bestsellers Stage event\n\n\n\n📖 Signed copy of Behind These Four Walls (included with both VIP All Access & General Admission tickets)\n\n\n\n🍷 Exclusive post-event “Wine & Sign” Reception at Main Street Reads\n\n\n\n✍️ Personalized book signing with all featured authors\n\n\n\n🛍 10% attendee-only discount on all panelists’ books during the reception\n\n\n\n\nThis is the perfect way to launch a weekend packed with books\, conversation\, and unforgettable literary moments. For tickets to JUST this session CLICK HERE. For your ALL ACCESS pass that includes ALL Friday and Saturday sessions\, three free books and priority seating (best deal at $99)\, CLICK HERE! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummerville Book Festival Opening NightDate: Friday\, February 27Doors Open: 6:00 p.m.Author Talk: 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.Wine & Sign Reception: 7:30 p.m.Location: Flowertown Players Theatre\, followed by reception at the bookstoreTicketed Event | Signed Book Included
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/thrill-in-the-ville-kicking-off-2026-summerville-book-festival/
LOCATION:Flowertown Players Theatre\, 133 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, South Carolina\, 29483
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Summerville Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Studio Salon & Signing: Healing with Words
DESCRIPTION:Ticketed event — available HERE\, at Main Street Reads\, OR included with VIP All Access and VIP Saturday Passes. \n\n\n\nSTUDIO SALON: HEALTH & HEALING WITH WORDS \n\n\n\nAn Intimate Conversation on Writing\, Resilience & Hope \n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 28\, 2026Doors Open: 9:30 AM (coffee & light continental breakfast)Salon: 10:00 – 11:30 AMLocation: Flowertown Players Blackbox Studio(behind the theatre\, Journal Alley)Ticket Type: General AdmissionPrice: $15(Also included with VIP All Access and VIP Saturday Passes) \n\n\n\nThis intimate studio salon brings together authors who write bravely about personal challenge\, healing\, and hope. In an open-forum\, conversational setting\, we’ll explore how words can shape understanding\, foster connection\, and offer real comfort—sometimes exactly when we need it most. \n\n\n\nAudience participation is encouraged\, making this a welcoming\, thoughtful space for shared reflection and discussion. Authors will have their books available for purchase and signing on-site following the salon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Authors\n\n\n\n\nRobert Dorchak\, Jr.\n\n\n\nKristy Dominiak\n\n\n\nHenley Carr\n\n\n\nMaria Cruz\n\n\n\nTerri McCrea\n\n\n\nSarah Marie\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Ticket Includes\n\n\n\n\nAdmission to the Health & Healing With Words studio salon\n\n\n\nCoffee and light continental breakfast\n\n\n\nAccess to on-site book sales and author signing\n\n\n\n\n🎟 Tickets: Available online\, at Main Street Reads\, or at the door beginning at 9:30 AM (as available) \n\n\n\nFine Print:Seating is limited. Breakfast offerings are light/continental. This event takes place in the Flowertown Players Blackbox Studio\, located behind the theatre in Journal Alley. Parking is available in Journal Alley.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/studio-salon-signing-health-healing-with-words/
LOCATION:Flowertown Players Theatre\, 133 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, South Carolina\, 29483
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Reader Salon,Summerville Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Kiss & Tell Romance at the Summerville Book Festival!
DESCRIPTION:Get Ready for Romance! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTicket Type: General Admission (also included with VIP Saturday + VIP All Access passes)Date/Time: Saturday\, Feb. 28\, 2026 — 1:00 PMDoors Open: 12:30 PMLocation: Flowertown Players TheatrePrice: $30 if purchased separately \n\n\n\nSaturday’s first Bestsellers Stage session is all romance! Join us for a lively panel moderated by Marissa Hale\, followed by an on-site signing. \n\n\n\nThis is a Reader’s Choice panel — meaning both General Admisson and VIP ticket holders receive 20% off any participating author’s books on hand. \n\n\n\nORDER TIX NOW!\n\n\n\nFeatured Authors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarissa Hale (Moderator)\n\n\n\nSavannah Reed\n\n\n\nCatherine Mann\n\n\n\nRobin Hillyer-Miles\n\n\n\nElaine Reed\n\n\n\nAddie Bealer\n\n\n\n\nTickets: Available online HERE or in-store at Main Street Reads. \n\n\n\nFine Print\n\n\n\n20% Reader’s Choice discount applies to participating authors’ titles available on-site.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/kiss-tell-romance-at-the-summerville-book-festival/
LOCATION:Flowertown Players Theatre\, 133 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, South Carolina\, 29483
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Summerville Book Festival
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SUMMARY:BESTSELLERS STAGE: Fabulous Fantasy at Summerville Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:An Early-Release Fantasy Event: Grab Your Tickets HERE!  \n\n\n\nStep into a world of magic\, myth\, and imagination at Fabulous Fantasy\, a spellbinding Bestsellers Stage panel at the Flowertown Players Theatre—and one of the most exciting early-release events of the Summerville Book Festival. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturning to the Saturday stage\, Yasmin Angoe makes her highly anticipated leap into fantasy with She Drinks the Light. Thanks to special permission from Penguin Random House\, ticket holders will receive the very first signed first editions—days before the official release on March 3. \n\n\n\nJoining Angoe for this fantasy-packed conversation is an outstanding lineup of authors\, led by moderator Dorothy McFalls\, with panelists A.F. Winter\, E.M. Etheridge\, Denise Lee\, and Georgia-based Allen Lyle\, whose work blends dark epic fantasy with sci-fi elements. \n\n\n\nExpect lively discussion\, behind-the-scenes insight into new releases\, and a celebration of fantasy in all its forms. A book signing with all featured authors follows the session.Event DetailsDate & Time: Saturday\, February 28\, 2026 | 2:30 PM(Doors open at 2 pm)Location: Flowertown Players TheatreTicket Type: General AdmissionPrice: $30(This event also included with VIP Saturday Pass & VIP All Access Pass) \n\n\n\nYour Ticket Includes📖 One (1) signed first edition of She Drinks the Light (early release!)Books are distributed at event check-in. Guests using the accessible entrance will be checked in by our crew\, who will deliver books directly to you.Featured Authors: \n\n\n\n\nYasmin Angoe\n\n\n\nAllen Lyle\n\n\n\nDorothy McFalls (Moderator)\n\n\n\nDenise Lee\n\n\n\nA.F. Winter\n\n\n\nE.M. Etheridge\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Bestsellers StageBestsellers Stage programming takes place at the Flowertown Players Theatre and anchors the festival’s ticketed events\, including Friday night’s Thrill in the ’Ville and Saturday’s romance\, fantasy\, and Southern fiction panels.🎟 VIP All Access Pass includes all Bestsellers Stage programming with included books🛍 VIP ticket holders receive 10% off any panelist’s books at the theatre bookshop or Main Street Reads🍷 VIP & All Access ticket holders enjoy exclusive admission to the Authors/VIP Reception at Main Street Reads at 6:00 PM🎫 General Admission tickets are available for individual sessions (no reception included)Tickets are available HERE or in-store at Main Street Reads.Advance purchase strongly recommended—most events anticipated to sell out before February 27.
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bestsellers-stage-fabulous-fantasy-at-summerville-book-festival/
LOCATION:Flowertown Players Theatre\, 133 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, South Carolina\, 29483
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Celebration,Summerville Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Bestsellers Stage: Strictly Southern
DESCRIPTION:Southern Stories That Sing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 28\, 2026 \n\n\n\nDoors Open: 3:30 PMPanel: 4:00 – 5:00 PMSigning: Immediately followingLocation: Flowertown Players TheatreTicket Type: General AdmissionPrice: $30(Also included with VIP Saturday & VIP All Access passes) \n\n\n\nWe all love great Southern fiction—and this panel celebrates exactly what makes a Southern story sing. Expect charm and grit\, deep roots\, unforgettable characters\, and heartfelt conversation as standout authors explore the stories that define the South. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Bestsellers Stage session features T.I. Lowe\, with tickets including a signed early-release first edition of her newest novel\, South of Somewhere\, ahead of its March 3 release. The discussion is moderated by acclaimed author Kristen Ness (At Loggerheads). \n\n\n\nJoining them on stage are four more celebrated Southern fiction voices: \n\n\n\n\nCatherine Mann (Lightning in a Mason Jar)\n\n\n\nGervais Hagerty (In Polite Company)\n\n\n\nCarolyn Hooker (Leaving Edgefield)\n\n\n\nDan Leach (Junah at the End of the World)\n\n\n\n\nThe panel concludes with an on-site signing\, followed by the VIP Author Reception at Main Street Reads at 6:00 PM. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour Ticket Includes\n\n\n\n\n📖 One (1) signed advance-release copy of South of Somewhere by T.I. Lowe\n\n\n\n✍️ Access to the post-panel author signing\n\n\n\n\n🎟 Tickets: Available online or in-store at Main Street Reads(Includes one signed book per ticketed attendee)
URL:https://mainstreetreads.com/event/bestsellers-stage-strictly-southern/
LOCATION:Flowertown Players Theatre\, 133 S. Main St.\, Summerville\, South Carolina\, 29483
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion,Book Signing,Summerville Book Festival
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