Independent Bookstore Day!

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with the haints at The Haunted Book Shop! Our shop may not be haunted, but we are---by the books and authors we love! Show your love to your favorite indie bookstore by visiting with us on April 26, 2025, ALL DAY! We will have author appearances, book signings, in-store activities, exclusive merch, and, of course, Mr. Bingley, the coolest bookshop cat ever.

Our lineup is packed with something for everyone:
Ginny Myers Sain: In-conversation & Signing 4:00-6:00PM
Frye Gaillard: Book Signing 11:00AM-1:00PM
Joe Cuhaj: Book Signing 1:00pM-3:00PM

Frye Gaillard, a native of Mobile, Alabama, will kick off the celebration for us. He began his career as a writer and journalist after coming of age during the turbulent events of the 1960s, when he witnessed the Birmingham arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and acted as student host for Sen. Robert Kennedy at Vanderbilt University. In the years since then, he has written more than thirty books, ranging across the genres of history, memoir, journalism, and historical stories for young readers. He will be signing his upcoming release, Heroes and Other Mortals: Stories of Our Better Angels.

Next at the signing table will be historian and outdoor enthusiast Joe Cuhaj with his new release The Pig War and the Pelican Girls. Joe's love of Alabama's geologic and biologic diversity led him to publish his first outdoor guide, Hike America Alabama for Beachway Press in 2000. The book has since been re-released by Falcon Guides as  and is now in its fifth edition. He went on to write 13 more outdoor guidebooks and put his love of history to good use having written six non-fiction history books for , and . Joe currently writes for a variety of online and print publications including the travel website, . 

The fun continues in the afternoon with Ginny Myers Sain for an in-conversation and book signing of her latest, When the Bones Sing, a new southern gothic supernatural thriller about a teen girl in a small Ozark town who can hear the bones of the dead. Ginny Myers Sain lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has spent the past twenty years working closely with teens as a director and acting instructor in a program designed for high school students seriously intent on pursuing a career in the professional theatre. Having grown up in deeply rural America, she is interested in telling stories about resilient kids who come of age in remote settings. Her debut novel, Dark and Shallow Lies is a New York Times Bestseller.

Come for the authors, come for the exclusive merch (limited quantities available), come for the cat. Just make sure to come to the celebration of Independent Bookstore Day at The Haunted Book Shop at 9 S. Joachim St., Mobile, AL. We can't wait to celebrate with you!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Haunted Book Shop, 9 S. Joachim St., Mobile, United States