Open Book Chocolates

Handmade, Bean-to-Bar, Fair Trade Chocolate Bars | Literary-Inspired Flavors

Kickstarter

New Batch of Frankenstein in Progress!

G. E. Gallas

🥳 We have some wonderful news here at Open Book Chocolates!

As I mentioned in our previous blog post (from October 10th), as we were preparing 2024 Kickstarter rewards, we discovered that we had already sold out of our Frankenstein chocolate bars (Frankenstein Sold Out! Online Store Now Open!). We were very surprised by this, since we made approximately 600 Frankenstein bars, thinking that would be more than enough to get us through the end of the year. But we’re absolutely thrilled that Frankenstein is such a hit with our customers!

We are excited to announce that we are able to make approximately 300 more Frankenstein bars this year!

The new batch of Frankenstein bars should be ready late October or early November. We will be sure to announce when the bars are ready here on our blog! 📖🍫😊


In the meantime, our online store is OPEN!

Currently, we are sold out of The Great Gatsby, but expect it will be back in stock by the end of October. Also, we are very low on Sherlock Holmes and Jolabokaflod (Yule Book Flood), so order them before we sell out!


Frankenstein Sold Out! Online Store Now Open!

G. E. Gallas

Here at Open Book Chocolates this week, we’ve been busy preparing and organizing backer rewards for our 2024 Kickstarter campaign: Frankenstein & Jolabokaflod (Yule Book Flood) Chocolate Bars. And, while going through everyone’s requested flavors, we have discovered that we are already sold out of our Frankenstein chocolate bars!

This is very surprising to us, since we made approximately 600 Frankenstein bars, thinking that would be more than enough to get us through the end of the year. We have already sent out many Frankenstein bars to our wonderful wholesale customers, so there’s a possiblity you can still get your hands on a Frankenstein bar at an independent bookstore near you.

We are unable to make more Frankenstein bars before the end of the year. But we will try to restock them as soon as we possibly can. As you may know, we are a very small business, but we grow a little bit every year. It’s very difficult to predict how many chocolate bars of a single flavor we’re going to sell in a year. And we’re really only able to make new chocolate bars from January through October. Therefore, at the beginning of every year, we have no alternative but to make an educated guess as to how many chocolate bars to make for the entire year. For the past few years, 600 bars of our newest flavor is usually more than enough to get us from September through December. But clearly Frankenstein has proved to be extremely popular. Yay!

We’re absolutely thrilled that Frankenstein is a hit with our customers! And we can’t wait for our Kickstarter backers to enjoy their Frankenstein chocolate bars (along with all our other delicious flavors) once we begin sending out rewards starting mid-October. 📖🍫😊


In the meantime, we have now reopened our online store!

Currently, we are sold out of The Great Gatsby, but expect it will be back in stock by the end of October. Also, we are very low on Sherlock Holmes and Jolabokaflod (Yule Book Flood), so order them before we sell out!


Kickstarter 2024: Success!

G. E. Gallas

Thank you so much to the 203 Kickstarter backers who have helped bring Frankenstein (Raspberries and Icelandic Lava Salt in Dark Chocolate with Milk) and Jolabokaflod Icelandic Yule Book Flood (Candied Orange, Cinnamon, and Clove in Dark Chocolate) to life. Over the next few months, we will be very busy working to send out Kickstarter rewards!


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Just Launched: Frankenstein & Jolabokaflod (Icelandic Yule Book Flood) on Kickstarter

G. E. Gallas

Our two newest flavors — Frankenstein & Jolabokaflod Icelandic Yule Book Flood!

  • Frankenstein: Raspberries and Icelandic Lava Salt in Dark Chocolate with Milk.

  • Jolabokaflod | Icelandic Yule Book Flood: Candied Orange, Cinnamon, and Clove in Dark Chocolate.


Please Note: Our online store will be closed for the duration of the Kickstarter campaign. You can access all our chocolate bar flavors as backer rewards via Kickstarter. Once the Kickstarter campaign is finished, we will reopen our online store.


Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley!

G. E. Gallas

Today, August 30th, marks the 227th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s birth. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) — born August 30th, 1797 — is best known as the author of the Gothic, early science fiction novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (published in 1818). And, as it so happens, we at Open Book Chocolates have been busy preparing to debut our newest chocolate bar flavor inspired by Mary Shelley’s haunting novel! We are crowdfunding our Frankenstein chocolate bar (Raspberries and Icelandic Lava Salt in Dark Chocolate with Milk) along with our Jolabokaflod, or Icelandic Yule Book Flood, chocolate bar (Candied Orange, Cinnamon, and Clove in Dark Chocolate). The Kickstarter campaign launches next week on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024. So please visit our Kickstarter launch page and click on “Notify me on launch” to follow along. And please help us spread the word via social media as well as word of mouth. Thank you so much!