A Book Tour, Pre-Order Swag, a Giveaway and More!

May 2025

Hello, friends!

Time seems to be flying, doesn’t it? At least it is for us. Our new book, BATTLE OF THE BOOKSTORES, is coming out ONE MONTH FROM TODAY! We have a lot of exciting information to share with you—including the cities where you can see us on tour, and how you can get some fun pre-order swag!

Let’s start with the tour because we’d love to see you out on the road, and we know how crazy summer schedules can be.

To make things as easy as possible, we’ve gathered all the links for all the events. So click on the city name to find more information and get tickets!

6/2 - Naperville @ Anderson’s Bookshop

6/3 - Chicago @ Volumes BookCafe

6/4 - St. Louis with The Novel Neighbor (at The Lobby by Union Studio)

6/5 - Westfield, IN with Turn The Page Bookstore (at Christ United Methodist Church)

6/6 - Centerville, MD @ Romance-Landia (signing only)

6/6 - Severna Park, MD @ Park Books

6/7 - New York, NY @ BedHead Pajamas (A pajama party with Ali Rosen)

6/8 - Cambridge, MA @ LoveStruck Books (event link coming soon)

6/17 - Waterford, WI @ Reads by the River

6/21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The King’s English with Love Bound Library

9/5-6 - Milwaukee, WI @ Romance Con

As we’ve mentioned in the past, pre-orders are REALLY important for authors. They let our publisher know there’s interest in the book, and it can help get us more marketing support, and more books in more bookstores.

To help make it worth your while, too, we have two different pre-order incentives.

First, if you order from one of our local Indies, Volumes in Chicago, The King’s English in Salt Lake City, or Park Books in Severna Park, MD you will get:

• A personalized, signed book

• A custom Battle of the Bookstores bookmark

• Character art featuring our MCs Ryan and Josie

• A “naughty” or a “nice” bookish pin

Second, if you pre-order from these stores or ANY other bookstore (including audio and ebooks), you can enter to win the ultimate Battle of the Bookstores gift pack including all of the above AND a custom beach towel featuring the book cover!

To enter, simply email us AliBradyBooks@gmail.com with your proof of purchase by June 2nd, 2025. We’ll randomly select a winner on pub day. (U.S. only.)

For this month’s bookstagram spotlight, we’re excited to feature @LilBit_Reads, @Exercise_Read_Repeat, and @BooksAndLindsey. Be sure to follow and check out their great accounts!

And if you want to be featured in an upcoming email, be sure to tag our Instagram account, @AliBradyBooks in your posts about our books!

We’ve had the best time diving into our backlist and talking to readers about our books! The very last one is coming up in two weeks and we’ll be talking about Until Next Summer, our adult-summer camp romance novel that came out last summer, and was our first book to hit the USA Today Bestseller list!

Sign up here to join us on Wednesday, May 14th at 8pm EST.

Every month, we host a giveaway for a different book—and this month, we’re giving away a signed, finished copy of our new book, BATTLE OF THE BOOKSTORES!

To enter, comment below and tell us the name of your favorite indie bookstore and what city it’s in. (And let us know if we’ll be seeing you at any of our book tour stops!)

We’ll randomly pick one winner on May 14th so you can hopefully have the book before pub day! (U.S. only)

Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you out on the road! And remember, if you pre-order Battle of the Bookstores, send us a copy of your proof-of-purchase!

xo,

Alison & Bradeigh

AKA Ali Brady

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