Fate&Fiction

08/23/2026

We're back for round two! Come find the Fate & Fiction stall and take a chance on your next favorite read. Every bundle is wrapped up tight with its title kept secret until you tear into at home. Blind dates with a book, sunshine, and balloons overhead... doesn't get much better.
Can't make it out to the festival today? We've still got you covered:
📍 Shops of 607 in Johnson City is hosting a Family Day today with fun activities for the whole crew, stop in and say hi to our bundles while you're there.
📚 Schneiders Market in Kirkwood always has a fresh stock of our blind date bundles on the shelf too, so you can grab one any day of the week.
See you under the balloons! 🎈

08/22/2026

08/22/2026

Set up in the barn this weekend for the Heritage Hill Hot Air Balloon Festival, take a peek at our little corner of mystery-wrapped books all ready for their new homes! 📚🎈
Can't make it out to Pompey? No worries, you can still grab a blind date with a book at:
📍 Shops of 607 (Johnson City)
📍 Schneider's Market (Kirkwood)
Come say hi if you're at the festival, and thanks for supporting a small business either way! 💛

08/17/2026

Restock alert! 📚✨ Fresh Fate & Fiction blind date bundles just landed at Shops of 607 in Johnson City! Every book is wrapped in mystery.. you won't know your title until you unwrap it at home. Swing by and let fate pick your next read.

While I was there, I couldn't resist supporting some fellow local creators. I picked up The Final Crusade by Peyton Quinn and the cutest pair of real ladybug earrings by Amber Artistry🐞. If you're stopping in for a bundle, take a lap around the shop first, there's so much local talent under one roof worth discovering.

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08/02/2026

Hi everyone! We wanted to share our August schedule with you because, honestly, our favorite part of every event is meeting you in person. 💌
Here's where we'll be:
August 6th, 13th & 20th: Little Italy Endicott Farmers Market Endicott, NY, 4–7PM
August 8th & 9th: Little Falls Canal Celebration in Little Falls, NY, Saturday 10AM–5PM & Sunday 10AM–4PM
August 15th: National Honeybee Day Celebration at HoneyBeeMadee in Big Flats, NY, 10AM–3PM
August 22nd & 23rd: Heritage Hill Balloon Festival at Heritage Hill Brewhouse in Pompey, NY, Saturday 12–7PM & Sunday 12–5PM
August 28th: Ithaca Tap & Craft Festival at Steamboat Landing in Ithaca, NY, 5:30–9PM
August 29th: Completely Booked Book Fair & Pizza Party at WSKG Studios in Vestal, NY, 1–3PM
We'll have our full lineup out, blind date bundles, kids' books, coloring book editions, handmade wooden bookmarks, and the spinning prize wheel. And keep your eyes peeled, a handful of bundles are hiding golden tickets this month! 🎟️
If you can't make an event, you can always find us at Schneiders Market in Kirkwood, NY, or Shops of 607 (Book Nook) in Johnson City, NY.
We can't wait to help you find your next mystery. Come say hi! 📖

07/31/2026

So here's something that's been on my mind lately. AI companies are buying up used books right now, by the pallet, and it's not to read them. Booksellers have started noticing weird orders, hundreds of books at once, no theme to any of it, nobody haggling on price. Turns out it's for training AI. The spines get cut off, the pages get scanned, and then the actual book, the one that survived on somebody's shelf for thirty, forty years, that got dog eared and reread and handed down, gets shredded. Destroyed forever. A federal court already said this is legal. It's just data now. Nothing else.
We're doing the opposite of that, on purpose.
Every book we sell stays a book. We wrap it in kraft paper, attach a handwritten clue tag, tuck in a quill and some little pieces of ephemera, and it goes home in someone's actual hands. To be read. Loved. Maybe passed along to somebody else someday. No spine gets cut here. The only mystery is what's inside, not whether you'll get to keep it.
Honestly, there's something a little old fashioned about what we do, and I like that. A book that a real person picked out, wrapped by hand, thinking of the person who'd unwrap it, that's just not something you can automate. It only works because it's small and slow and human the whole way through.
Somewhere out there right now, a machine is scanning a page for the last time before the book it came from gets destroyed. And somewhere else, someone's untying a piece of twine, finding out what book they've actually been holding this whole time. Both things are happening at once. Every book has a life. We're just trying to keep it going.

07/26/2026

Okay, July, you were a good one. 💛
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table this month! Every unwrapped bundle, every "wait, I don't get to know what's inside?!" made all the hot days and book chaos worth it. That moment when someone opens their mystery book is honestly my favorite part of this whole job.
I'm taking a week off to rest and restock, so things might be a little quiet here, but we'll still be at the Little Italy Endicott Farmers Market this week, weather permitting! After that, August is coming in strong with a full lineup of events. Can't wait.
Thank you for reading blind with me. 🕯️📖

07/25/2026

Today the whole corner is buzzing! The Greene Arts and Crafts Festival is in full swing, and we're right in the middle of it. Take a look at the video: our booth, wrapped and ready with today's mystery bundles, and the row of fellow makers and vendors lining the street beside us. There's something so good about a festival day, everyone's tables full, everyone's story a little different.
Ours is simple: every book is wrapped with a handwritten clue tag, bookish extras, and a total mystery until you unwrap it. No judging a cover you can't even see, just a genre, a vibe, and a little trust in fate.
We've got bundles for adults, kids, and the whole family today, plus bookmarks and a few festival-only extras. Come wander the corner, see what everyone's brought, and let a book pick you for once.
See you today! 📖✨

07/23/2026

There's something about wandering a farmers market at golden hour..the smell of fresh bread, string lights just starting to flicker on, neighbors catching up over lemonade. Tonight, add us to that mix.
We'll be set up at the Little Italy Farmers Market with a table full of mystery, literally. Every book in our bundles is wrapped up tight, its title hidden until you're home, curled up, ready to meet it. No cover judging allowed. Just a little fate, a little fiction, and the thrill of not knowing what's waiting for you until you untie the twine.
Whether you're a hardcover romantic, shopping for a kid who devours mysteries, or just looking for a bookmark pretty enough to keep forever, we've got something for you.
Come wander, come browse, come take a chance on a stranger of a story. We'll be there with the rest of this incredible lineup of local vendors, and we'd love to see your face in the crowd tonight. 🌙📚✨