Emerald Coast Storytellers, a local creative writers group, is launching a series of Story-Pairing Dinners in 2023. The first event will be held on Tuesday, February 7 from 5-8 p.m. at Hotel Effie, located within Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort.

Following on the heels of a feel-good rom-com like Runaway Groomsman, the next VIE Book Club pick took a complete 180-degree turn. Colleen Hoover has become a New York Times #1 Bestselling Author with her heartfelt romantic dramas such as the It Ends with Us series. Still, as her first venture into the romantic thriller genre, Verity is more likely to have readers on the edge of their seats than in tears.

This is the perfect story to whet your appetite as we enter the holiday season and crave those warm fuzzies. It starts with Sawyer, a successful Hollywood screenwriter who was jilted by his movie-star ex-fiancée and then forced to be the best man in her wedding—to his best friend. (Can we say "oof"?) After he pulls a rebellious Cinderella–esque exit in the middle of the vows, the tabloids love him. The bride and groom, not so much.

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Month, Sundog Books in Seaside, Florida, is donating a children's or young adult book to every Walton County teacher to help stock classroom libraries. All Walton County teachers with a current teacher identification badge can visit Sundog Books from May 1 to June 30 to select a free children's or young adult book of their choice to be used in their classroom libraries.

The VIE magazine brand’s first coffee-table book, HOME—Inspirations for Home and Life by VIE, is now available online and in select retailers. And this week, you can also enter for a chance to win your very own copy! Visit this blog post and check out our Instagram, @viemagazine, for the rules and to enter.

From our family members to close friends and even closer spouses, relationships with others can be complicated, and there is a lot of behind-the-scenes action that takes place to cultivate a connection. One step toward better understanding the beautiful mystery of the human personality is knowing each other’s love languages.

Now celebrating its 40th anniversary and the start of the summer season, The Zoo Gallery will host an exclusive book signing and reading with author Raven Roxanne and trunk show with Magnolia Pearl on Saturday, May 11, at its Grand Boulevard location just in time for the 31st Annual ArtsQuest festival.

The Charleston Library Society and Charleston Farmhouse teams did an incredible job coordinating this high-brow, enlightening festival, and the VIE team was delighted to attend and be a part of such a phenomenal long weekend in “The World’s Favorite City.”

There's still have over a month of summer left to get in your summer reading! Visit places you’ve never been and enter into a fantasy world when you check out some of the books from VIE’s 2017 Summer Reading List.

Breakfast Tea & Bourbon is a new novel, self-help guide, and treasure hunt rolled into one. Learn more about the book and the hunt for $50,000, and preorder your copy before the treasure hunt begins on February 9, 2017!