Ink'd Pages, a fantasy- and romance-focused bookstore, will open soon in New Bedford, Mass., the Standard-Times reported.
The bookstore will reside at 209 Union St. in a space that once housed Subtext Book Shop. Ink'd Pages owner Andrea Furtado, who is also a tattoo artist, plans to carry a wide array of romance and fantasy titles. Her event plans include book clubs, and she wants to emphasize special-edition titles.
"I've always wanted a bookstore or some kind of space where it's a safe space for everybody, especially for women in general," Furtado told the Standard-Times. "After I had my kids, I had very bad postpartum depression, and reading got me out of it, and I want to offer that to other people."
She added, "So many [of my younger clients] are reading, and are reading the books that I read, or just getting into reading... They're like, 'I've never read before, and I just started this year, and I can't put these books down.' "