Remember Who The F*ck You Are
For anyone who needs permission to be exactly who they are. Keep going.
Arriving soonWhat this is
No lease, no landlord, no back room.
Moth and Lantern is a pop-up bookstore. We show up at markets, festivals, fairs, and the occasional parking lot with folding tables, some warm light, and a shelf built one book at a time.
Every title on it came from an author we can reach by phone. Nothing gets stocked because a sales rep put it in a catalog.
Who's on the shelf
- Black, Indigenous, and authors of color
- Queer and trans authors
- Local writers, from around here and one town over
- Self-published and small-press books that never got a distribution deal
Not a display near the register in June. The whole store, all year.
Coming to the shelf
The first books on it.
Five independent authors have trusted us with their work. Here are the first of them — copies arrive soon, and the people on our list hear about it first.
Let's Be Less Stressed
365 tiny stress-relief practices. No guilt, no perfection pressure, no telling you to meditate more.
Arriving soon
Savage
Sapphic dark romance — an assassin, the girl she never kissed, and the vengeance between them.
Arriving soonWant to know the moment they land? Send a note.
Where to find us
The light's on next at…
We're booking our first markets now. Dates get posted here a few weeks ahead — come say hello, bring a tote, and plan on staying longer than you meant to.
Soon
First dates being booked now
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Want to know before the crowd does, or have an event you'd like us at? Send a note.
Two ways in
Which one are you?
For authors
Consign your book
Tell us the title, the format, what it retails for, and how many copies you'd want to start with. We'll come back with terms and a start date.
Start a consignmentFor everyone else
Send a note
Booking a market, hunting for a title, stocking a book club, or asking where we'll be next — write in and we'll answer.
Send a noteConsigning with us
Four steps, no surprises.
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First
You fill out the consignment form. It takes about three minutes and there's no commitment in it.
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Then
We talk terms and quantity, and you get a written agreement before a single copy changes hands.
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After that
You send an opening batch. Small on purpose — nobody should have a box of unsold books sitting in a back room.
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Ongoing
Your book travels with us. We track what sells, tell you before you run out rather than after, and pay out on a set schedule.
Terms, plainly
The part nobody puts on the website.
Consignment agreements are usually vague until you're already invested. Here's ours up front, so you can decide before you've spent an evening on it.
Your split70%
Typical opening quantity5 copies
Who owns the booksYou do, until sold
Ending the agreementAny time, in writing
Unsold copiesReturned to you
Come find the light.
Whether you wrote one or you just want to buy one — we'll be somewhere nearby soon.