Yesterday was an amazing day at the store. There were as many as 40 - 50 people in the store at any one time during much of the day. Sales were brisk and people were glad to see me open after so long closed. One customer said as he looked around at the crowd "I think I'd have to nominate you as the smartest bookseller around right now". If I had done this 10 years ago, I might have to agree. I'm still not completely convinced the new limited hours idea will work in the long run, but the early results have been good. I'm open again next week on Saturday, May 12th from 12-6:30. More sales on comics (tens of thousands of comics are priced at 25cents each/5 for a buck. I have boxes of silver age and golden age comics at half price and specials on many graphic novels and books about comics.

See you all soon.

Greg

Don't forget, DreamHaven will be open on Saturday, May 5th from 12 - 6:30pm. We'll be featuring a big comic book and graphic novel sale.

Also, our friends at the Trylon Cinema are showing an H.P. Lovecraft double feature that I highly recommend.

http://take-up.org/series/32/

Sorry this is so late. I just got the info today. We'll have a Speculations Reading here tomorrow night at 6:30. Here are the details:


On Wednesday, May 2, ROB CALLAHAN reads his fiction from 6:30-7:45 p.m.
at DREAMHAVEN BOOKS, 2301 38th St E, Minneapolis. Rob Callahan is a
professional purveyor of made-up stories about the way we really are.
His works of fiction include the novel Hellbound Snowballs and the short
story collection, A Wish Upon a Fallen Sky. He has written and performed
two award-winning spoken shows, Idiosychronicity and The Last Ditch
(co-written with Allegra Lingo), and he regularly joins the Minneapolis
entertainment troupe The Rockstar Storytellers on stage. His nonfiction
has been featured in Secrets of the City, salon.com, l’etoil Magazine,
and cracked.com

I'm home for a couple of days. I'm off to Chicago for the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention this weekend. If you're in the area I highly recommend this show.

I'll be in the store today, Wednesday, April 25 until about 7:00pm. If you're looking for your pull comics, come on by. The store is a mess right now (I'm still unpacking from the past three conventions and packing up for the next one), so browsing isn't really a great option. But if you have a pull or hold item, I'll be happy to help today.

Next week I'll be here on Wednesday as well as Saturday.

See you soon.

Greg

I drove all the way to Los Angeles (almost exactly 2000 miles) to try selling my new Creature book as well as other items at Monsterpalooza but it was a bust. They get somewhere around 8000 people and there's not a whole lot of direct competition for books, but it does appear that fewer and fewer people care for books at all. I swear a few people didn't even know what a book was from the way they looked at them.

Oh well.

I did have dinner with Julia (Julie) Adams the star from Creature From the Black Lagoon. It was a quite a highlight for me.

I also went to see Ron Borst's collection of movie posters, books and ephemera. It was so vast, impressive and awe-inspiring, I felt like burning my own collection and giving up completely. But that passed and I ended up buying more stuff for my collection.

Anyway, I'm back home later in the week and then on to Chicago for the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show (April 20-22). It's a great book show and I recommend it to anyone in the area who likes books.

Greg

Another MiniCon has come and gone. It was very low-key and somewhat bittersweet. I've been to the past 39 MiniCons and I've watched our group age and it's not very pretty. Many people are gone now, others debilitated. We're all fairly gray. But it's always good to see some old friends who only come out at Easter.

I left for California the day after MiniCon. I'm now near Denver and on my way to Las Vegas. I may get to LA a day early but I have several things to do before the convention so that would be a good thing. I'll be at Monsterpalooza, a monster movie convention. Then I have a bit of time to wend my way home until the next convention, The Windy City Pulp and Paper Show in Chicago.

It was 35 years ago today that I opened the doors to my bookstore. It was called Star*Lite Books, later The Compleat Enchanter, and finally DreamHaven. I don't know where all that time has gone; I must have been only a year old when I opened the store since I still can't believe that I'm now eligible to join the AARP and get the senior menu at Denny's. I still think of myself as just barely out of my teens.

I'm in Cleveland at Cinema Wasteland. Next week is Minicon. Hope to see you there.

Happy April's Fool Day.

Greg

I'm currently here in the store and will be here tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28th from 12-6:30. No special deals, just the usual great ones.

I'm going to Cleveland on Thursday and will be at Cinema Wasteland trying to promote my new book on The Creature From the Black Lagoon, among other things. Then comes Minicon. Then Monsterpalooza. Then The Windy City Pulp and Paper Show. Then, uh, home for a couple of weeks.

If you can visit me at any of the above mentioned conventions, I encourage you to do so. The next time after tomorrow that the store will be open is Saturday, May 5th from noon -6:30pm. That day I'm featuring a huge sale on Comics and related items. Don't miss it!

Greg

I'm in Los Angeles for a few days. Here's where I'll be on Sunday:


www.la-vintage-paperback-show.com


Greg

Event at DreamHaven Books

Saturday, March 17th at 7:00pm

Writer's Group Panel Discussion and Book Launch Party

Panel Discussion of the importance of having a writing group, of being part of a writing community, and, how a good group can function.

Panelists include:

William Alexander
Barth Anderson
Haddayr Copley-Woods
David J. Schwartz
Stacy Thieszen

We are also celebrating the publication of William Alexander's first book, Goblin Secrets (McElderry Books 2012; $16.99).