We’re on the lookout for new hosts who are open and inviting. You’re the smiling face that new members see when arriving. You help lead the discussion creating a respectful and safe place for members to discuss different topics and build friendships. Don’t worry – we’ll provide the discussion questions!

It’s a lot of fun! You run the show; you choose the venue, the date, and time for your monthly book club meeting. It’s your show. We’re happy to help get things up and running and provide you with a list of tried and tested tips to make sure you have a successful chapter.

The bigger benefit to hosting is knowing that you’re help bridge future friendships that would otherwise not be. The connections you’ll help facilitate are true and long lasting and will change lives. The other benefits include: a free copy of each month’s book, a free yearly membership to the website, access to our hosts retreats, access to our hosts Facebook group, and lastly you get to call all the shots – what’s better than that?

Don’t worry about that – we got you. We’ll take care of promoting the events across the site and encouraging new members to join. If you’d like to put up a local flyer, let us know; we’re happy to provide one. Or if you have local community Facebook Groups that you belong to, it’s a good place to raise awareness.

This question comes up a lot! So it's good for you to know when it does. We read a lot. We work with the big and small publishers to identify the best new books out there and then we hold a global vote to decide which book will become this month’s Gloss title. Curating our book list is what we spend the most time on and we take this role very seriously. When we choose a book to be included in our monthly vote, we aim for it to be available in paperback in all countries at a certain price point for accessibility – which makes it a bit of a challenge at times.

We are completely open to suggestions for titles to include in future book votes. Book recommendations have to come from someplace, so please encourage your members to email us at info@theglossbookclub.com with their ideas. We will then take those suggestions to the publishers to find out if those books meet all the criteria.

If your members sign up to receive The Gloss email newsletters, which we encourage them to do, they will receive a link to the monthly vote.

We meet for book club once a month, but feel free to host secondary events for your community should you wish. If you’d like to do a brunch or a movie night for the members of your chapter, that’s up to you (and it’s certainly not mandatory.) We just encourage one meeting a month around the book of the month.

We meet at public places like restaurants, book stores, or libraries. Restaurants with private rooms are best because attendees have the opportunity to order food and drinks and the noise level isn’t too high. But private rooms aren’t always that easy to pin down. We suggest meeting on a Monday or Tuesday night when businesses aren’t that busy – they may be happy to have you! We do not meet in private homes.