Blue Bicycle Books, Charleston, SC

Category Archives: Events

May and June Events

Sat., May 23, 11 am, Jonathan Miller, author and illustrator of The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund, will signs copies and give a storytime reading. Jonathan Miller quit his job at Oak Steakhouse to create and market this great local children’s book about a dachshund saying his goodbyes around town. All of the artwork […]

April Newsletter

Welcome to the April issue of Yes, It’s a Real Cat the newsletter of Blue Bicycle Books In this issue: Recent acquisitions Burke High Lit Mag Right Relationship by Peter Brown Family Volunteer Day Happy Trails ***  Recent Acquisitions: New books by local poets Barbara Hagerty, Carol Peters and Denny Stiles! A number of graffiti books. […]

Early april events

Blue Bicycle Books, upcoming in-store and offsite booksignings. All are free and open to the public. Questions? Please contact Jonathan Sanchez at 722.2666. Thurs. Apr. 16, 5:30 – 8 pm, during the Upper King Design Walk. Suzanne Latsko and Dianne Shaver will sign copies of Bride’s Advisor Charleston, (hb, $45)  Note: we do not allow […]

11th Annual Bridge Run Show, Apr. 2, 7:30 pm

Blue Bicycle Books presents the 11th annual Cooper River Bridge Run Show, featuring a reading of new work by local writer Jonathan Sanchez. Thursday, April 2.  Wine, power bars, and encouraging handshakes start at 7:30, reading starts around 8. 420 King Street, downtown Charleston. 843.722.2666.  Every year, two nights before the Cooper River Bridge Run, Blue […]

Story hour with Marjory Wentworth and Leslie Pratt-Thomas — Saturday, Feb. 21

Marjory Wentworth, S.C. poet laureate, and Leslie Pratt-Thomas, illustrator, will sign copies of their children’s book Shackles, Saturday, Feb. 21, 11 am to 1 pm. Join us on the carpet at 11:30 for a storytime reading with juice boxes, snacks and a raffle to win a free copy of the book! Sullivan’s Island was where millions of […]

Lunch with Siddons and Seitz

Blue Bicycle Books will host an author’s luncheon with Charleston’s Anne Rivers Siddons, New York Times best-selling author of Off Season, Low Country, Peachtree Road and many others. Also speaking is Mount Pleasant novelist Nicole Seitz (The Spirit of Sweetgrass, Trouble the Water), who will sign her latest book A Hundred Years of Happiness. Lunch […]

The Secret Life of Bees movie premiere

Thursday, Oct. 16. Terrace Theatre and Harbour Club. Local author Sue Monk Kidd has graciously arranged for the Charleston premiere of the movie based on her hugely successful novel to benefit poetry workshops at Burke High School. Put on by the Lowcounty Initiative for the Literary Arts, who started Poets in the Schools at Burke. […]