DreamHaven Books will once again be exhibiting at Minneapolis’ longest running science fiction convention. While we can’t bring *everything* that we have at the shop, we do our best to try.
Returning for the first time in a few years, DreamHaven Books will have a table in the Dealers Room at Odyssey Con, April 8-10, 2016 in Madison WI.
With Guests of Honor Brandon Sanderson, Margaret Weis and Marjorie Liu you know it’s going to be a great reading-centered convention, but they have lots of other activities planned as well.
Stop on in, and help me not take back quite as many books as I bring down!
DreamHaven Books will once again be exhibiting at one of our favorite conventions. Thousands of rare pulps and paperbacks share space with fabulous art and many book bargains.
Join us Wednesday, April 27th for a Speculation Reading with Lyda Morehouse, author of Messiah Node and Apocalypse Array as well as several paranormal romances under the name Tate Hallaway.
The fun beings at 6:30 pm and wraps up here at the bookstore at 7:45 pm. Cookies and soda pop will be provided. There’s likely to be a group outing to pizza afterward.
A one-day celebration of independent bookstores, including the exclusively available Neil Gaiman / Chris Riddell Coloring Book ($14.95) and a passport-filling challenge for ten different Minneapolis bookstores.
DreamHaven Books will be set up on Friday, May 13th at the Palmer House Hilton with a fine spread of attending author’s titles, new releases, unusual collectible rarities and many of our old favorites.
The conference is $145 for the weekend, but the mass author signing on Friday evening is open to the public. So come on down!
On Wednesday, May 25, ELEANOR ARNASON reads from her work at 6:30 p.m. Ms. Arnason was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Washington DC, Honolulu, Saint Paul, and Minneapolis. She received a BA in art history from Swarthmore College and did graduate work at the University of Minnesota, before quitting to learn about life outside art museums and institutions of higher learning. She made her first professional sale in 1972 while living in the Detroit inner city. Since then she has published five novels and over 30 novellas, novelettes, short stories, and experimental short forms. Her fourth novel, A Woman of the Iron People (1991), won the James Tiptree Jr Award for gender-bending science fiction and the Mythopoeic Society Award for adult fantasy. Her fifth novel, Ring of Swords (1995), won a Minnesota Book Award. Since 1994 she has devoted herself to short fiction. Her story “Dapple” won the Spectrum Award for GLBT science fiction and was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award. Other stories have been finalists for the World Fantasy, Hugo, and Nebula Awards. She lives in Minnesota, where for several years she made her living as the financial manager for a small arts nonprofit. Aside from accounting and science fiction, her interests include politics, economics, bird-watching, driving down two-lane country highways, and exploring the remains of the Great Lakes industrial belt.
Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven Books and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural speculative fiction organization that also hosts a midsummer SF convention, DIVERSICON, the 24th edition of which will be held July 29-31, 2016, at the Best Western Plus—Bandana Square, Saint Paul, with Guest of Honor JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON and Special Guest NAOMI KRITZER.
Please join us Wednesday evening on June 22nd at 6:30 PM for a reading with Rob Callahan.
Rob Callahan started working as a journalist back in the Twentieth Century. He took a break for a few years to write novels, then came back in 2009 as an arts and culture writer. His work in journalism has garnered a Marconi award, Associated Press awards, and recognition from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Last year, he dialed it back a bit on the journalism to focus on writing fiction again.
His next novel, Duplicity, will tell the story of an underachieving young professional temping for the Devil, who’s accidentally promoted to project manager over the impending apocalypse.
Primarily due to Convergence changing the location of the Dealers Room from the Main Hotel in the middle of everything to the basement of the hotel across the street, DreamHaven Books will not be hosting a table at this year’s convention. But we still wish everyone the best of times, and if anyone from the convention comes by the bookstore with their badge on, we would be pleased to offer them a special 20% discount on anything purchased during the show.
Please stop by and say howdy!
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