Consignment & Events

Thank you for your interest in stocking your book with us! Before continuing please understand:

  1. We evaluate thousands of new books and field many event requests every year. It may take several weeks to respond to your request. Thank you for your  patience.

  2. We are receiving stocking requests from authors at an increasingly high volume every day. We cannot handle phone calls or drop-in visits. Our priority is receiving and shelving books and helping customers.  Do not leave a copy of the book at the store or send one unless we request it. Unsolicited samples that are dropped off or mailed to us will be donated unread.

  3. Books that we accept by local authors will be carried on a consignment basis. Please review consignment guidelines below and submit the stocking request form.

I wrote a book—will you carry it?

Guidelines

  • Due to limited space, our consignment program is only available to local authors, with preference given to authors living in Blacksburg and the greater New River Valley area.

  • If approved, the initial order will be one copy and the consignment period is for 3 months. If that copy sells, we may contact you to bring in more copies. If your book continues to sell well, we may agree to extend the consignment agreement.

  • Any unsold books will be held for pick-up for 30 days. After that, any unclaimed books will be donated to the charity of our choosing.

  • If you are interested in having us host an event, we require first that you be accepted into our consignment program and that we are seeing sustained interest before scheduling an event.

  • We accept consignments year round, except during November & December.

Consignment stocking request form