Offsite Events

Book sales outside our store provide another service to individuals and organizations in the community by offering fundraising opportunities.  We have sold books at author-signing parties in private homes, in churches, and at many other venues. We have even sold books at restaurants, theater performances and comedy shows! Each out-of-store sale is different.

Quail Ridge Books & Music provides books and the necessary sales equipment to sell them - cash box, bags, table-top signs, credit card imprinters or (for customers with access to a smartphone) Square readers for quick and easy credit card processing. Although we have occasionally sent staff to handle a sale, most groups prefer to sell books themselves and earn a 20% commission on the sales total before tax.

If you are giving a party for a friend who has a book coming out, or if your business, school or organization is sponsoring a speaker who's written a recent book, contact our outside sales coordinator, Vicki Breeden, at (919) 828-8777 or at schools@quailridgebooks.com - the earlier the better - and we'll make every effort to accommodate your needs. We look forward to adding to the success of your event.

And, of course, if you want a signed or personalized book by one of the authors, just contact us!  (If ordering withing 48 hours of the event, please call rather than ordering online.) 

Quail Ridge Books & Music is supplying books to these author events, open to the public.  Reservations and tickets should be acquired from the hosting organization. 

Friday, May 18 @ 12-8 p.m. - Carolina Cookbook Signing with multiple authors
Got to be NC Food & Wine Expo, State Fairgrounds, Exposition Building
The Got to be NC Food and Wine Expo is hosting a “Carolina Cookbook Signing” at the State Fairgrounds as part of the Dept. of Agriculture's Got to be NC Festival, running May 18-20. Favorite NC chefs Linda Watson, Debbie Moose, Jean Anderson, Andrea Reusing, Foy Allen Edelman, and Bob Garner will be signing their cookbooks while guests sample some of the most delightful flavors NC has to offer. There is a $2 admission charge, and children 11 and under are free. For more information and a schedule of author signings, visit http://www.gottobencfestival.com/Attractions.htm?TabToOpen=1#FoodWine

Friday, May 18 - Sunday, May 20 - Carolina FiberFest
State Fairgrounds, Jim Graham Building; Book Signing on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
Join us for the sixth annual Carolina FiberFest (May 18-20). In addition to the contests, demos, classes, and vendors from previous festivals, FiberFest is adding a “bookstore booth” this year, featuring those hard-to-find books on knitting, crocheting, weaving, spinning, rug hooking, and dyeing. Meet authors Charles Gandy (The Embellished Sock), Marcy Smith (Best of Interweave Crochet), and Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser (Continuous Strand Weaving Method) at the book signing event on Saturday, May 19 at 2:30 p.m. Carolina FiberFest is free and open to the public. For more information and a schedule of activities, visit http://www.carolinafiberfest.org/