Beyond the Covers

08/27/2026

Here’s this week’s list of booktrovert-friendly events happening in & around Houston! Let me know in the comments what you’re getting up to this weekend!

08/26/2026

Houston authors & bookish vendors! Looking for a market opportunity with big impact?

The Beyond the Covers Book Fair *for Adults is a Scholastic-inspired, nostalgia fueled bookish night out designed just for big kids - all celebrating the right to read.

As part of Banned Books Week, we’re partnering with the Texas Freedom to Read Project to bring awareness to their mission of fighting censorship and book bans in public schools and public libraries across Texas.

Apply to join us by August 31st!

Event details:
- Friday Oct 9, 6 - 10 PM
- No cover, 21+ only
- Benefiting the Texas Freedom to Read Project
- Hosted by Beyond the Covers Mobile Bookshop at Social Beer Garden HTX in Midtown Houston

Marketing and promotion schedule and plan available on request!

Visit https://beyondthecovers.com/pages/banned-books-week-october-book-fair-for-adults-vendor-and-author-application to apply

08/26/2026

August is Women in Translation month, which is a great excuse to pick up one of these highly celebrated novels!

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August is Women in Translation month! Celebrate with one of these highly lauded works in translation written by female authors.

08/25/2026

Here are all the new books releasing this week that I’m adding to my reading list!

See something that you might want to add to your TBR? You can see (and shop!) the full list of my weekly new release recommendations over at https://bookshop.org/lists/new-releases-beyond-the-covers

08/21/2026

Happy Black Indie Author Day! Here is a great chance to back a Houston author’s independent publishing project!

N.E. Davenport’s Elysium is a dark, smoldering dystopian romance that's "Silver Elite" meets "Arcane: League of Legends," with a heroine whose a master thief with secret truthseeker powers and a ruthless archangel general who leads the corps tasked to hunt her kind down.

A dark, smoldering dystopian romance that's "Silver Elite" meets "Arcane: League of Legends," with a heroine whose a master thief with secret truthseeker powers and a ruthless archangel general who leads the corps tasked to hunt her kind down.

08/21/2026

Back with another list of booktrovert-friendly events happening in and around Houston this week! Let me know in the comments what your weekend plans are 🫶