Book release party! Annabel Monaghan's DOLLY ALL THE TIME

Schedule

Tue Jun 02 2026 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

St Mary's Episcopal Church | Saint Paul, MN

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Come celebrate the release of Annabel Monaghan's DOLLY ALL THE TIME!
About this Event

Join us to celebrate the release of , by Annabel Monaghan! Annabel will be joined in conversation by Ellie Palmer.

Ticket cost includes a pre-signed copy of Dolly All the Time.

Please note that this event will be held off-site at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 1895 Laurel Ave, St. Paul, MN 55104. Doors will open at 6:30PM. St. Mary's is an ADA-compliant space, with an elevator to access the sanctuary room where the event and signing will take place.

Event conversation will be followed by signing with Annabel and Ellie. Your ticket includes a pre-signed copy of DOLLY ALL THE TIME.

An optional signing line will follow the conversation, and Annabel and Ellie will (optionally) personalize copies. Signing groups will be assigned in order of check-in.

You are welcome to bring copies of the authors' other books from home, and limited additional copies of the authors' titles will also be available for purchase on-site. When placing preorders for event pickup, please select "Offsite event pickup: 6/2 with Annabel Monaghan @ St. Mary's" as the (free) shipping option at checkout.

Order Annabel's books here!

Order Ellie's books here!

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About the book:
A hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion, from the New York Times bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script.

If they start by pretending, can they end with something real?

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.

So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself—can she really start now?


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About the authors:

Annabel Monaghan is the New York Times bestselling author of It’s a Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. After twenty-five years in the suburbs of New York City, she now splits her time between Connecticut and Florida. Her novels have been translated into twenty-one languages.

Ellie Palmer is the author of Four Weekends and a Funeral, Anywhere With You, and the forthcoming novel, Married with Benefits. She is a prototypical Midwesterner who routinely apologizes to inanimate objects when she bumps into them. When she's not writing romantic comedies featuring delightfully messy characters, she's at home in Minnesota, eating breakfast food, watching too much reality television, and triple texting her husband about their son.


Agenda

🕑: 06:30 PM
Doors open
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:45 PM
Author conversation
🕑: 07:45 PM - 08:00 PM
Audience Q&A
🕑: 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Signing
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Where is it happening?

St Mary's Episcopal Church, 1895 Laurel Avenue, Saint Paul, United States

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Tickets

USD 31.34

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