Book Bedazzling Night
About This Event
Bedazzle your next favorite read at Cupid's Bookshop! This is a fun, crafty event where you can decorate a paperback with rhinestones, gems, and other sparkly embellishments, transforming them into the prettiest edition to display on your shelf!
The event is $35 per person, which includes your choice of a paperback to bedazzle. A bedazzling kit will be available for use at this event.
About the Venue
Cupid's Bookshop
Cupid’s is more than a bookstore, it’s a judgment‑free zone where diverse love stories are celebrated openly. Tina envisioned a store where readers don’t have to hide their favorite tropes—be it aliens, faeries, dragons, or adventure romances—and where workshops, midnight release parties, and author signings are part of the romance culture. Community is at our core. We host monthly book clubs spanning romantasy, contemporary romance, dark romance, and LGBTQ+ titles—each one a welcoming space for readers to gush, cry, debate tropes, and bond over their favorite book boyfriends (and girlfriends, and morally gray magical beings). Whether you're new to romance or a lifelong lover of the genre, our book clubs are designed to make you feel seen, heard, and completely at home.
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Author Signing Julian Winters + Erik J Brown
Join us at Cupid's Bookshop for author signings with Julian Winters and Erik J. Brown Date: Saturday, October 24, 2026 Time: 1-3pm Location: Cupid's Bookshop - 4347 Main Street. Philadelphia, PA 19127 Tickets: FREE. We recommend preordering your book to guarantee a copy and select PICKUP. If you would like to guarantee any back titles, please purchase online and select pickup. ACCESSIBILITY & PARKING: Event will take place at Cupid's Bookshop. Guests who would benefit from priority seating or any additional assistance are encouraged to reach out in advance. Email us at cupidsbookshopbookseller@gmail.com and we're more than happy to make arrangements! Free and paid street and lot parking options are available throughout Manayunk. BOOK PICKUP POLICY If you can no longer make it to the event, please contact us ahead of time, and we can get your book personalized for you. In the event that you can no longer attend, and do not contact us, books will be signed but not personalized. If you can no longer attend the event, books will be held for up to 30 days after the event date. We will email you after the event with pickup or shipment details. If we have not heard from you within 30 days, we may donate or return to inventory. Thank you for your understanding! We look forward to welcoming you to our event! ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Julian Winters Julian Winters is the bestselling author of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award-winning Running With Lions; the Georgia Peach Award nominated Right Where I Left You; Junior Library Guild Selections How to Be Remy Cameron, The Summer of Everything, and As You Walk On By, Prince of the Palisades and adult romances I Think They Love You and Last First Kiss, a USA Today Bestseller. A self-proclaimed comic book geek, Julian spent his adolescence in upstate New York before moving to his current home of Decatur, Georgia. He can usually be found reading, swooning over rom-coms, or watching the only two sports he can follow—volleyball and soccer. You can follow Julian on Instagram (@wintersjulian) or his website, julianwinters.com. Erik J. Brown Erik J. Brown is the internationally-bestselling author of All That's Left in the World and the sequel The Only Light Left Burning. His books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, The Bulletin of the Center of Children's Books, and ALA Booklist. His second novel, Lose You to Find Me, became a USA Today Bestseller. Erik is also the co-host of the YA Book Podcast YA-OK where he and Alyssa Ljub of Netflix's The Circle talk with new and established YA authors about writing, publishing, and all things YA! He lives in Philadelphia with his family.
Author Signing: Kate Fox
Join us at Cupid's Bookshop for an author signing with Kate Fox, celebrating her new paranormal romance, SUCCUBUS Date: Saturday, Oct 31, 2026 Time: 1-3pm Location: Cupid's Bookshop - 4347 Main Street. Philadelphia, PA 19127 Tickets: FREE. We recommend preordering your book to guarantee a copy and select PICKUP. If you would like to guarantee any back titles, please purchase online and select pickup. If you are unable to attend the event, but would like to receive a signed and personalize copy, please order online and note in the order that you would like it signed and/or personalized. Kate will be signing a maximum of three books from home, but at least 1 copy has to be purchased at Cupid's Bookshop. No exceptions. This is subject to change at any time at the author's discretion. ACCESSIBILITY & PARKING: Event will take place at Cupid's Bookshop. Guests who would benefit from priority seating or any additional assistance are encouraged to reach out in advance. Email us at cupidsbookshopbookseller@gmail.com and we're more than happy to make arrangements! Free and paid street and lot parking options are available throughout Manayunk. BOOK PICKUP POLICY If you can no longer make it to the event, please contact us ahead of time, and we can get your book personalized for you. In the event that you can no longer attend, and do not contact us, books will be signed but not personalized. If you can no longer attend the event, books will be held for up to 30 days after the event date. We will email you after the event with pickup or shipment details. If we have not heard from you within 30 days, we may donate or return to inventory. Thank you for your understanding! We look forward to welcoming you to our event! ABOUT THE BOOK: Her touch kills, his saves the dying. Are they fated, or forbidden? Tempest Dunlap loves romance novels, but she knows she’ll never have her own happily-ever-after. She is a sweatpants-wearing doula who homeschools her seven-year-old niece in suburban New Jersey. Unfortunately, she’s also a succubus: Every man she’s ever kissed has died. But Tempest is a good person who never intended to be a murderer, so she’s sworn off love forever. Then she meets Joel Tav, a gorgeous, gentle doctor who makes celibacy feel impossible. Tempest knows she can’t touch him—or tell him his brother was the last man she dated and accidentally killed. Meanwhile, a vigilante is hunting people with dark powers, and Tempest is next. Should she keep hiding in her safe, lonely life, or should she embrace the darkness she fears and risk the ultimate forbidden romance? Maybe Tempest will get her love story after all . . . or maybe she’ll become its villain. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: KATE FOX lives with her husband, daughters, and two fluffy cats in an old house in an old town in the universally admired state of New Jersey, where she looks for magic in mundane places. Her favorite trope is enemies to lovers, as long as they're really enemies.
Women Who Kill Event
WOMEN WHO KILL Seven women. Countless fictional victims. Zero convictions. Friday, November 6, 2026 | 7 PM Cupid's Bookshop 4347 Main Street, Manayunk, Philadelphia 18+ | Tickets: $10 (includes $10 store credit) PUBLIC SAFETY WARNING: AN UNUSUALLY HIGH CONCENTRATION OF WOMEN WHO KILL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN MANAYUNK. Don't panic. They're authors. We're bringing together seven women who know how to write a hell of a story, and we're giving them a microphone. For generations, women in literature have been expected to suffer gracefully, forgive endlessly, and survive whatever terrible things the plot throws at them. But what happens when women stop playing nice? When they get angry? When they want revenge? When they become the villain, the monster, the mastermind, or something altogether more complicated? MEET THE SUSPECTS: Christina Henry Hannah Morrissey Stephanie Feldman Diana Rodriguez Wallach Rebekah Faubion Olivia Worley Sybil Knight Together, these seven authors will explore the darker side of storytelling across genres, from dangerous desires and deadly secrets to rage, obsession, revenge, and women who refuse to be reduced to victims. We'll be asking the questions that polite society would rather we didn't. Why does female rage make people so uncomfortable? Why do we love morally complicated women? Why are women expected to be likable, even when they're fictional? And why is there something so satisfying about a woman who finally decides she's had enough? Expect a lively, unfiltered conversation, plenty of dark humor, and opportunities to meet the authors. YOUR ADMISSION ISN'T LOST MONEY. Tickets are $10, and your admission includes $10 in store credit to put toward your next read. This event is strictly 18+. Seven women. One night. A whole lot of motives. The only other place you'd find this many women who kill together is a penitentiary. And unlike prison, this one comes with books. Event details: Date: Friday, November 6, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Cupid's Bookshop - 4347 Main Street. Philadelphia, PA 19127 Tickets: $10 per person — store credit that can be used towards the purchase of a book by one of the authors. This event is 18+; no one under the age of 18 will be permitted into the event. A ticket is required for entry into this event. No one will be permitted entry without a ticket. EVENT DETAILS 6:45PM: Doors Open – Settle in, take some time to shop, and browse our collection of books by the authors. 7:00PM: Introduction 7:05PM: Discussion Begins ~7:40 PM: Q&A Session – Your chance to ask the authors anything! 7:45 PM: Signing line – Meet the authors, get your books signed, and snap a photo. The line will be in order of seating row. 9:00 PM: Event Wraps Up – Thanks for joining us! Tickets are limited, so grab yours soon! ACCESSIBILITY & PARKING Check-in will take place at Cupid's Bookshop. Guests who would benefit from priority seating or any additional assistance are encouraged to reach out in advance. Email us at cupidsbookshopbookseller@gmail.com and we're more than happy to make arrangements! Free and paid street and lot parking options are available throughout Manayunk. BOOK PICKUP POLICY If you can no longer make it to the event, please contact us ahead of time, and we can get your book personalized for you. In the event that you can no longer attend, and do not contact us, books will be signed but not personalized. If you can no longer attend the event, books will be held for up to 30 days after the event date. We will email you after the event with pickup or shipment details. If we have not heard from you within 30 days, we may donate or return to inventory. Thank you for your understanding!