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Booked Retreats - Curated Reader and Writer Retreats hosted by author Susanne Blumer and her Sassafras bookstores.

Make bookish friends, meet authors, VIP after hours bookstore shopping and so much more!

01/22/2025

Y’all!!!! It snowed in the lowcountry of SC. At the coast! Well, it mostly sleeted with a bit of snow, but it’s still white and cold and not a day to venture out.

Our Sassafras here is closed, and I’m stuck at home. What to do? Ahhhh…. A blanket, a fire, a@hit cup of coffee and Onyx Storm. ❤️

I had to reread the last of Iron Flame to refresh my memory. It’s been a minute. I KNEW the big shocker cliffhanger, but I needed a reminder on some people, places and things. Done! And now I ride. 🤣

I have no idea what’s going to happen. Aren’t books amazing?!

01/21/2025

It's a big day in our three bookstores. Onyx Storm releases today! This is the third book in the Fourth Wing series and has been highly, highly, impatiently anticipated for months! It might end up being the biggest release of the year.

Did you know new books release on Tuesdays?

I personally love a good romantasy series, but a PG one. I like the fantasy. I'm so so on the romance. My daughter told me I HAD TO READ Fourth Wing. I really enjoyed it. The second book ended on a super duper cliffhanger. I can't wait to see what happens!

Any books you're looking forward to in 2025? I have a list, and fortunately so many of the authors are participating in our retreats.

Pepper Basham, Gabrielle Meyer (her Timeless series is all the things!), Michelle Shocklee, Cheryl Bostrom, Sarah Loudin Thomas, Sara Brunsvold, Jaime Jo Wright, Amanda Cox. We are so blessed! I love each of these amazing writers and can't wait to share the books and them with our guests!

You can grab your spot for Pepper, Gabrielle and Michelle now. Space is limited to 20 attendees, so I wouldn't wait!

2025 is going to be epic!

01/17/2025

Woo hoo!!! What are you reading this weekend? I just started Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. I do ❤️ a good fantasy book!

All of our bookstores were busy today with people stocking up on reading material for the impending polar vortex. I left the snow in the mountains and came to the Lowcountry…. where it’s the same temp and we are predicted to get 5-6” of snow next week! ❄️ It never snows here!

I’m envisioning books and hot cocoa if it does. And that’s a perfect day!

01/16/2025

Sassafras House looked so pretty in the snow. Soon she will be full of book lovers. We’ll gather around one of the fireplaces, coffee in hand, chatting with our new book besties about our favorite books. Or we’ll snuggle into a cozy chair in the library with a new book. Or hang out on the porch or make s’mores around the fire pit or grab a friend and head to Main Street for some retail therapy and some yummy food.

Our retreats are going to be so fun!

01/15/2025

I confess. I’m a bookworm. In fact, I’m such a bookworm that I now own three bookstores and a bought a house to hang out with other bookworms. I’ve got it bad!

How about you?

01/14/2025

Thrilled for our friend Pepper Basham! What an amazing review for her upcoming book, Some Like It Scot. ❤️

If you love Pepper, you’ll definitely want to be at our first Booked Retreat. (hint hint) 🥰😍

This book is so good!!!

01/13/2025

Welcome to Booked Retreats!
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So what is a Booked Retreat?

💘 A weekend mountain getaway with other book lovers
💘A fun-filled, weekend long book club at our exclusive retreat house
💘A bookish itinerary including VIP after hours bookstore shopping
💘Meet authors, get free books and make lifelong friends and memories
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Our retreats are designed around the featured book and may vary some, but all will include:

✨Accomodations for two nights at Sassafras House or Sassafras Cottage in beautiful Waynesville, North Carolina. Mountain views galore1
✨Welcome Tea party on Friday afternoon, breakfast Saturday and Sunday morning, book club meeting with the author ( we have some incredible ones lined up!), free time to explore town, have lunch and do some shopping, dinner Friday and Saturday night with bookish fun, and after hours VIP shopping at Sassafras on Main Bookstore.
✨A Booked Swag Tote full of bookish goodies & a private Facebook group for your retreat. Get to know your new book besties ahead of time!
✨ Our Featured Book mailed to you in advance. We will focus on Christian/Faith Fiction books from some of the best and most loved authors around!
✨Time to relax, eat, laugh, connect, enjoy and recharge.

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We are currently renovating Sassafras House to be the PERFECT place for our retreats. Think porches for reading and chatting, cozy spaces, fireplaces, beautiful rooms with private baths, a library, gorgeous dining room, the most perfect little greenhouse with a daybed and seating. It's going to be beautiful.

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Come to the mountains for a weekend getaway! We launch soon so make sure to like/follow this page and be the first to book your spot. I can't wait to meet you!

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01/08/2025

Let’s talk about books for a whole weekend!

Our first retreat is April 15-17, 2025. Space is extremely limited, but it is going to be so fun!

Theme? A hint: Lassie

01/07/2025

BIG NEWS!

Our website will be up soon with all the info on our first three Reader Retreats! We have very limited space at each retreat so be ready to book when we go live!

Come to the gorgeous WNC mountains, shop in our bookstore after hours, meet some amazing new bookish friends, eat, laugh, talk books for hours, relax and have fun. We have some incredible books and authors lined up.

I can't wait to welcome you to Sassafras House!

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Waynesville, NC

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https://bookedretreats.com/

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