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Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Newsletter #102 June-August 2013 Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm Sat. 10 am to 6 pm Sun. Noon to 5 pm Uncle Hugo's 612-824-6347 Uncle Edgar's 612-824-9984 Fax 612-827-6394 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.UncleHugo.com Author Events (at Uncle Edgar's) Saturday, June 15, 1-2pm: David Housewright - The Last Kind Word Author Events (at Uncle Hugo's) Saturday, June 29, 1-2pm: Kelly McCullough - Blade Reforged and Neve Maslakovic - The Far Time Incident Friday, August 2, 1-2pm: Jack McDevitt Tuesday, August 6, 5-6pm Larry Correia - Warbound Holiday Schedule Monday, May 27: Closed Thursday, July 4: Closed Award News The nominees for the Hugo Award for Best Novel are Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed ($7.99), Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold ($25.00 signed), Blackout by Mira Grant ($9.99), 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson ($25.99), and Redshirts by John Scalzi ($14.99). The finalists for the Nebula Award for Best Novel are Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed ($7.99), Ironskin by Tina Connolly ($24.99), The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin ($14.99), The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan ($16.00), Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal ($14.99), and 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson ($25.99). The Edgar Award winners included Best Novel to Live by Night by Dennis Lehane ($16.99), Best First Novel to The Expats by Chris Pavone ($15.00), and Best Paperback Original to The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters ($14.95). Several awards were presented at the Left Coast Crime convention. The Lefty (for the most humorous mystery of 2012) went to The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks ($15.99). The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award went to Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for Murder by Catriona MacPherson ($24.99). The Rocky (for best mystery novel set in the Left Coast Geographical Region) went to As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson ($25.95, $15.00 trade pb due early June). The Watson (for mystery novel with the best sidekick) went to Bruja Brouhaha by Rochelle Staab ($7.99). The Dilys Award (for the mystery that the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association members most enjoyed selling) went to Before the Poison by Peter Robinson ($14.99). The Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel went to The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny ($25.99, $15.99 trade pb due early July) and for Best First Novel went to Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer ($15.95). How's Business? By Don Blyly Business always goes down during the winter months of January, February, and into March until the weather starts to warm up, and that was true again this year. But then winter didn’t want to go away, and the weather continued to make it difficult for people to get to the Uncles. But when the winter finally ended and people could move around easily again, the used books just poured in at Uncle Hugo's. For people looking to buy used science fiction and fantasy, that means great selection, but piles of books on the floor–lots more piles than normal. The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association held 3 spring meetings in various cities, including St. Paul. I didn’t attend, but there was a recap of the meeting distributed by e-mail, including some of the favorite lines used by local author William Kent Krueger when he addressed the group. My favorite was “Anyone who says they only have one life to live must not know how to read a book.” Let me tell you about our yellow pages problems. Although I still often use the old fashioned yellow pages, I’m aware that most people have switched to the internet. So the yellow pages folks have for some years been bundling the old fashioned yellow pages ads with the internet ads. With a print ad, it will stay the same (right or wrong) for a year, so if you get it right you can then relax for a year. But the internet ads can be changed frequently, probably every day if the business wanted to go to the effort. But about 2 years ago strange changes started happening to our internet ads without my knowledge or permission. Suddenly, Uncle Hugo’s was offering wedding planning services and several other services that we have never in fact offered, and Uncle Edgar’s was suddenly in the comic book business, although Uncle Edgar’s has never handled comic books. Nobody ever called Uncle Hugo’s to ask about our wedding planning or any of those other services that we don’t really offer, but we received LOTS of calls at Uncle Edgar’s from people wanting to sell comic books, sports cards, and other things that people thought a comic book store might handle. And some of these callers insisted that we had to buy their comic books, because we advertised that in our yellow pages ad. And some people just walk into the store with old, beat-up comics and try to insist that we buy them. I knew that our yellow pages ad didn’t mention comic books, but I looked in the yellow pages just to be sure. Eventually one of the people on the phone specified the yellow pages ad on the internet, which is how I discovered how our internet ads had mutated. I managed to get all of the false information removed from both ads, and the Uncle Hugo’s ad has stayed clean. But the Uncle Edgar’s ad keeps mutating back to “comics”–and if you search for “comic books”, quite often Uncle Edgar’s would be the top store to pop up. I’ve removed the “comic books” information dozens of times, and our Dex sales rep has removed it several times, but it just keep mutating back. Sometimes the ad stays accurate for a few days, sometimes for a month, sometimes for a couple of months, but it always mutates back again. The last time this happened, I checked under “comic books” for Minneapolis, and seven stores popped up, only two of which actually sell comic books. I checked for St. Paul and found dozens of stores listed as selling comics, of which three actually sell comics. Some of the stores listed have been out of business for years, but didn’t sell comics when they were in business. Some of the stores listed don’t sell any kind of books, let alone comic books. I’ve let Dex know how unhappy I am to be paying them over $500 per month, and then have them publish false, unauthorized information about my stores. Short Recommendations by Don Blyly Julie E. Czerneda has written over a dozen sf novels, most of which I’ve read and enjoyed. I was very interested to pick up her first fantasy novel, A Turn of Light ($20.00 trade paperback, 854 pages–which means the publisher gave us the whole novel at once, instead of making the author chop it into a trilogy and making the reader wait years to get the whole story–as some publishers tend to do). The book is wonderful. Almost 20 years before the story begins, a group of refugees stumble upon a small vacant village where magic works (because it is where two worlds overlap). The village allowed some of the refugees to stay, but used nightmares to drive away others. As the story begins, Jenn (one of the first to be born in the village) is approaching her 19th birthday and is wondering if she can find a way to use magic to produce a husband for herself. Everybody in the village loves Jenn, but know that she’s a little strange–so it’s not a big surprise when she’s suddenly accompanied by a man that she claims she’s known her entire life, but nobody has ever seen before. As Jenn’s 19th birthday approaches, many other visitors start showing up at the village, some human and some not. The book is filled with delightful characters, some dark elements but mainly upbeat elements. The book comes to a good conclusion, so that many readers think the novel tells the whole story, but the author says there will be a second novel set in the village, coming in maybe a year or two. The cover art for the book is also wonderful, but I didn’t realize how wonderful until I was far enough into the story to start picking out little details from the art that I had initially missed. I’ve enjoyed Laura Resnick’s Esther Diamond series, featuring a woman who moves from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City to try to make it as an actress, but has to keep taking odd jobs to pay the rent. Her mis-adventures always end up in the midst of supernatural mayhem, with a lot of humor and a bit of romance. The first book in the series that I read was Doppelgangster ($7.99), where Esther is working as a singing waitress at an Italian restaurant that happens to be a mob hangout. When supernatural things start happening, Esther and some of her friends have to save the day. I enjoyed Doppelgangster enough to go back and read Esther’s first adventures in Disappearing Nightly ($7.99), and to follow her later adventures in Unsympathetic Magic ($7.99), Vamparazzi ($7.99), and Polterheist ($7.99), her latest.
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