Hello Dianna,

Big News: We’ve Signed the Lease!

The Secret Lantern officially has a home! After months of planning, negotiating, and behind-the-scenes logistics, we’ve signed the lease and secured our storefront in Cedar Park, Texas.

📍 Our new address:

151 South Bell Blvd, Cedar Park, TX

(Right next to the Cedar Park Farmers' Market and the Bell District development site)

It may not look like much right now, but we're looking forward to turning this old bank into a place folks will want to come to time and time again.

It'll house our future bookstore, board game spot, and community third space — including cozy corners, creative events, and our super exciting vault room. We're hyped!

Now that we’ve secured our space, here’s what we’re focused on:

Buildout Begins

We're designing a cozy flexible for our books, games, and events - including the refurbished vault for private game nights and creative workshops.

Ordering Books + Games

We're working with publishers and distributors to bring in a curated mix of books, manga, board games, zines, and more. Have a special request for a book or game? Drop Us a Line and let us know what you'd like to see in the store!

Permits & Setup

Paperwork is underway! We're working with the city, the Bell District, and other local partners to prepare for opening our doors later this year.

Showing Up IRL

You’ll start seeing us pop up around town soon — farmers markets, events and beyond. Come say hi, grab a bookmark, and/or chat about your latest read or game.

Buy A Book

via Bookshop.org

You can support The Secret Lantern by purchasing books (and more) online at Bookshop.org!

Every order helps stock our shelves and fund future events — and they’ve got more than just books: check out their selection of anime, manga, and even board games while you're there.

It’s a cozy click with a great real-world impact.

Buy an Audiobook

via Libro.fm

Prefer to listen to your books while you worldbuild, cook, or commute?

Use Libro.fm to get your audiobooks and we’ll get a portion of every sale — no corporate algorithms here, just real support for indie bookstores.

Bonus: They even have GraphicAudio titles (aka: full casts + cinematic sound design!)

Buy Us A Coffee

via Ko-fi

Running on big dreams and small donations, The Secret Lantern is still coming together — and every dollar helps us build something magical.

Whether it’s a one-time tip or a monthly donation, your support helps us afford more shelves, signage, and snacks (for us and you).

Ko-fi is the quickest way to get the Lantern glowing.

Every purchase and donation helps us get much closer to filling our bookshelves, hosting events before we open, and building out our cozy space.

We’re gathering some goodies to get ready for some small popups — including a stall next to the Texas Farmers Market at Bell, -- we'll have dates to share very soon!

Make sure you're following our socials to keep up to date on where we are and what we're up to.

Also, hi! Now that it's official, we might as well introduce ourselves.

We're Dan and Dianna and we're the owners of The Secret Lantern and we're so excited for y'all to go on this journey with us.

We'll be sharing more details as the weeks proceed, so for now, just know that we can't wait to tell you more about ourselves and why this is important to us.

Stay tuned~

Thank you for being part of this journey. For every share, follow, book order, and kind word — we’re so grateful.

We’ll be back in your inbox soon with more updates, sneak peeks, and behind-the-scenes chaos.

🕯️ With light and gratitude,

The Secret Lantern Team

thesecretlantern.com