About this Event
✨ WHAT TO EXPECT AT MERRILY INDIE AFTER ✨
Step out of the cold and into a book lover’s holiday wonderland! 📚🎄
Spend the day surrounded by books, authors, holiday cheer, and fellow readers while you shop, explore, and discover your next favorite read!
🎄 70+ Authors, Vendors, Narrators & Bookish Influencers
Meet the people behind the stories, discover new-to-you authors, grab signed books, and connect with some of your favorite bookish personalities!
📚 Books, Books & MORE Books!
From swoony romance and edge-of-your-seat suspense to fantasy, paranormal, dark romance, and more—your TBR is definitely coming home a little taller.
🎁 Bookish Holiday Shopping
Find unique gifts for the readers on your Christmas list—or, you know…for yourself. We fully support bookish self-gifting. 😉
🐾 Can Do Canines Demonstrations
See some incredible assistance dogs in action with special demonstrations from our charity partner, Can Do Canines!
🍪 Christmas Cookies & Hot Cocoa
Because nothing says holiday book con quite like browsing books with a cookie in one hand and cocoa in the other.
✨ A Festive Holiday Atmosphere
Enjoy a warm, welcoming space filled with Christmas cheer, bookish fun, and plenty of room to stroll, shop, explore, and spend the day surrounded by people who love books just as much as you do.
FREE ENTRY TO OUR GIVEAWAYS ALL DAY LONG!!!!
Event venue & nearby stays
Union Depot, 214 4th Street East, Saint Paul, United States
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