Shadow and Spine

09/02/2026

Happy “BER” months! 🍂🖤 Our favorite time of the year is officially HERE!! 🎃📚☕️

We’re looking for a few last-minute pop-up spots to finish out the year with a bang! 🙌🏼

☕️ Coffee shops
🥤 Drink trailers
🏪 Local businesses
📍 Anyone with a parking lot that wants a fun little mobile bookstore visit!

If you’ve been wanting to collaborate with us, let’s make it happen! 🥹🖤 We’d love to bring Shadow and Spine to your space and make your customers’ day a little more bookish.

And don’t worry… your Shadow & Spine needs won’t disappear when pop-up season winds down! 👀📚

✨ We’re planning to FINALLY launch online sales this winter!

🎁 Plus, we have gift cards available!

So whether you catch us out at a pop-up or shop with us online this winter, we’ve got plenty more bookish goodness coming your way. 🖤

Let’s go out with a BANG!🔥📚
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08/23/2026

Head on out to the Boozy Bookfair!! 📚

It’s a beautiful day for some books and beer! 📚🍻

08/18/2026

📚A LITTLE 815 DAY RECAP📚

Thanks for showing Shadow and Spine, along with all the other amazing vendors so much love!
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08/16/2026

815 DAY GIVEAWAY WINNER! 🖤📚

Congratulations to Rylee S.!🎉 You’re our 815 Day Giveaway winner!

Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by and made the 815 Day Block Party so special. We appreciate every single purchase and all the support you show Shadow & Spine! 🖤

Until the next giveaway… 👀📚

08/12/2026

Have you ever met one of your favorite authors?! 🖤📚 Or who would you LOVE to meet someday?!

We had the absolute pleasure of attending Tate James’s new release event for Bubbles in Chicago, and it was seriously a dream come true! 🧋

While we were there, we got to meet and hear from Avina St. Graves AND Leigh Rivers too! 😭🖤

Literally surreal getting to meet such amazing authors, chat with them, and walk away with some very special signed books. These are the kinds of bookish memories we’ll be holding onto forever! 🥹📖

And a HUGE shoutout to Mr. S&S for making sure my tote bag got signed AND for asking Tate to personalize the book sleeve to Shadow and Spine🥹🖤 Because apparently he knows exactly how to make a book girl’s heart explode. 🤣

So grateful for this little bookish adventure and all the incredible authors we get to meet along the way!

Stay tuned for our next adventure… 👀📚🖤

Now tell us-which author is at the TOP of your “I need to meet them someday” list?!👇

08/09/2026

📚🖤 HAPPY NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY! 🖤📚

Today is basically a holiday made for us. 😂

For the readers who say “I’m just going to look” and leave with three books…

For the ones with a TBR pile that could qualify as a structural addition to the house…

For the readers who stay up way too late because “just one more chapter” somehow turned into 2 AM…

For the romance readers, fantasy lovers, thriller addicts, book hoarders, rereaders, annotators, and people who absolutely judge a book by its cover. 👀📖

Today we celebrate YOU!🖤

And what better way to celebrate National Book Lovers Day than with a little book shopping + wine? 🍷📚

✨ We’re at DC Estate Winery TODAY from 12–5 PM! ✨

Come grab a glass of wine, browse some books, find your next read, and maybe pick up a Blind Date with a Book while you’re here. 👀🖤

And we have something NEW on the trailer starting today! 📖

We’re excited to now carry Fragmented by local indie author Ryan Roberts, Digital Diatribe Media LLC— an unflinching look at the intersection of profound trauma, active addiction, and the long road back to self-discovery.

We’re always excited to shine a spotlight on local authors, and we can’t wait for you to discover Ryan’s story. 🖤

Come see us, book lovers! We’ll be at DC Estate Winery until 5 PM today!🍷📚

What are you reading today? Drop the title below! 👇

08/08/2026

🍷📚 SUNDAY PLANS? WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED. 📚🍷

We’re bringing Shadow and Spine Mobile Bookstore to the winery this Sunday from 12–5 PM! 🖤

Come sip, shop, and find your next obsession. 🍷✨ Whether you’re looking for a new release, a little romance, something dark & twisty, or the perfect Blind Date with a Book, we’ll have plenty of books to browse!

Grab a glass, bring a friend, and come hang out with us! 🥂📖

📍 DC Estate Winery
🗓️ Sunday, August 9th
⏰ 12–5 PM

Because wine + books = a pretty perfect Sunday. 🍷🖤📚

We’ll see you there! 🤗

08/08/2026

ONE WEEK📚☕️👚

On week to go!
815 DAY IS BACK AND WE'RE GOING ALL OUT.
August 15 is the 815's day and Rockford Art Deli is throwing the block party to prove it. Two things happening at once. Both are free to attend. Both are very RAD.
LIVE PRINTING inside RAD 10am to 4pm
Watch our printers run live on the press all day long. And here's the deal, bring your own shirt and we'll print it for $8.15. Want a blank? We've got those too for $18.15. Because it's 815 Day and everything should cost exactly that.
COFFEE BLOCK PARTY on N 1st Street 8am to 4pm (or until sold out)
We're shutting down the block and filling it with Rockford's best local mobile coffee trucks, carts, and trailers plus food, sweets, and a bookstore on wheels.
Your lineup:
☕ RAD Fuel Co.
☕ Cowitas
☕ Vintage Goose Remote Stop
🥣 La Carreta Alegre Acai Cart
🍰 She she's Bakery
🍭 My Treat Mini
📚 Shadow and Spine Mobile Bookstore
🪱 Nettle Compost
🏒 Ice Hogs Portable Hockey Rink
➕ More vendors to be announced
The details:
📅 Saturday August 15 2026
📍 402 E State St and N 1st Street in Downtown Rockford
🎟️ Free to attend
🖨 Live Print 10am to 4pm · Bring your shirt $8.15 · Buy a blank $18.15
☕ Coffee Block Party 8am to 4pm or until sold out
☔ Rain date Sunday August 16
Come as you are. Bring your people. Drink something good. Get something printed. Support local. Celebrate this city.
This is 815 Day. RAD Style.