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Events featuring Karelia & Fay
Grand Gesture Bookstore in Portland, OR is celebrating its first Romance Bookstore Day. We'll be doing the Pride and Proses: Creating Space in Romance for the Queer Identity panel. Joining us are the amazing Katie Duggan, A.B. Daniels, Erin Connor, Aiden Pierce, Amy Spalding, TJ Alexander, Timothy Janvosky, Nellie Wilson.
August 9, 1 p.m.
Central Library (801 SW 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97205).
Join us and bestselling authors Georgia Beers, Virginia Black, Felice Cohen, and Isabella for a sapphic literary love celebration at sea. Enjoy exclusive panels, intimate readings, and book signings - plus enlightening publishing tales from Sapphire Book’s leadership. From steamy fiction to loving memoir, this is where lesbian and queer romance meets the wild beauty of Alaska. Add to this the joy of traveling with a vibrant community of 2,000 LGBTQ+ women, and you know we're on the same page! Your next chapter starts here.
April 26 - May 3, 2026
Alaska (departing from Seattle)
Your Bookgroup
We would love to visit your class, bookgroup, or conference. We are available to join panels, do author Q & A's, and teach sessions on creative writing. Just ask! We'd love to meet you.
PAST EVENTS
Romance Bookstore Day, Grand Gesture Books 2025
Powell's Books, 2025
Queers & Quills Conference, 2025
Albany Public Library 2024
Annie Bloom's Bookstore 2024
Steamy Lit Con 2023
Steamy Lit Con 2024
Bookfest by Edelweiss
Creating Conversations: Contemporary Romance Celebration
Golden Crown Literary Society Conference 2021
Grass Roots Bookstore
Haus of Bad Bitches at the Bad Bitches Book Club
Jan's Paperbacks Guest
Reader Seeks Romance
Ripped Bodice (guest and featured title)
Steambox (featured title)
Willamette Writer's Conference 2021
Karelia on
Reader Seeks Romance
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