“Mysterious Galaxy is a genre store specializing in science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and horror.’ I like to inform readers, other booksellers etc, of upcoming events from indie bookstores. The Mysterious Galaxy has been a solid source for mysteries and science fiction for quite some time. Author events and signings are a huge way to increase sales. Shipping books becomes necessary, but well worth it because so many people like to collect signed editions. Myself being one! Here are the upcoming February 2011 events: Award-Winning Suspense Author: Michael Koryta Title: THE CYPRESS HOUSE Description: A man with the ability to foresee death is trapped in a mysterious small town in 1920’s Florida. Event Time: Wednesday, February 9, 7:00 PM Mystery Author: Jeffrey Siger Title: PREY ON
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Grave Sins by Jenna Maclaine is an urban fantasy series featuring Cin Craven as the heroine. Although this is only the second novel it is technically part five in the series. The original story appears in the anthology, “Mammoth Book of Irish Romance”, the second in the collection, “Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance”, the third is the novel, “Wages of Sin”, and the fourth in the anthology, “Strange Brew.” Cin Craven is a tremendous heroine and by far one of the most powerful I have read about in a long time. She is a witch turned vampire who is now known as The Red Witch of the Righteous. She is also somewhat of a pet project of the goddess, Morrigan. The attention to detail and
I have long been a Jeaniene Frost follower. I have read everything she has ever written. Jeaniene is known for her Night Huntress series, but this book comes from a spin off series called Night Huntress World. It is the second in the saga. Once again, not only has Ms. Frost wowed us with drama and suspense, but also has made characters we already liked incredibly dear to our hearts. Mencheres, who by his own admission, is “older than dirt”, has long been in both series. In the earlier books, we find him to be an intimidating power who is tormented by his past. He is not a cruel ruler by any means, but is awe-inspiring just the same. As he progresses through the stories
This is Part 4 of Caro and Susan’s foray into the land of bookselling. Here are the earlier segments: Part 1, We Got Handed a Dream In the Discount Card Aisle Part 2, The Auction Part 3, A Name, Some General Background, and We Go Back to School Shortly before the auction-where-we-bought-all-those-books, we got a phone call from T. You know T., the man who lured us into even thinking that starting a used book store was a spiffy idea? His message was, ‘since you practically, almost, have a store downtown how would you like to participate in the Retail Trades Haunted House?’ All proceeds go to promote the downtown businesses. Only six days in duration, only five or six hours each day! Plus setting it all
Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” has finally arrived. Yeah! Oh wait, you know what this means… used bookstore patrons will start asking for this this weekend and new bookstore patrons will start asking for his NEXT book as soon as they finish “The Lost Symbol.” (and who knows how long it’ll be til that is out!) Both groups are eager for books with a similar flavor, but there’s only so many Dan Brown books. What should you direct them towards next? Or while they’re waiting for Lost Symbol to appear on the used market? Here’s some suggestions for books readily available either from your distributor or possibly already roaming around your used book store. This is a mix of recent and not so recent blockbusters
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