It’s almost September. School is about to start up again. And pretty soon, it will be that time.

Time to clean out the garage for winter.

Well, DreamHaven has the same to-do list as everyone else, and we need to clean out the garage. So that means it’s time for a…

BAG SALE!

If you’re not at the fair on August 31st, come to DreamHaven and help us clean out the garage!  Buy a bag and fill it up! Stock up on reading for the winter, fill up your neighborhood’s Little Free Libraries, or insulate your attic – we don’t care what you do with it, we just need it gone!  Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mysteries, Thrillers, Sports, Romances, Auto Repair…whatever we have that we don’t want to sell in the store, it will be out there. Bring your family, your friends, your neighbors, your Little League Team…spread the word!

And just in case it winds up raining on August 31st, we have a rain date of September 7th.

Sidewalk not-sale of lots of FREE BOOKS!  Bring your bags, we still have books that need to go away!

On Wednesday, September 18th from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m., C.M. Alongi reads from her work.

C.M. Alongi is the author of Citadel and the Blackwing novella series. She also has The Witch Who Trades With Death coming out in Spring 2025.  When not writing, you might find her online handing out coffee and curses as the creator of the popular “CaFae Latte” series on TikTok and YouTube.

Her website is https://www.cmalongi.com/

BIG COMICS SALE!

This Saturday, November 2nd, we will be having a comics clear-out sale.  Regular back issues (in the boxes) are all 50% off. Comics displayed on the wall or behind the counter are 25% off. There will be many deeply discounted graphic novels and collections.

Isn’t this the perfect time to pick up those X-men issues you’ve been thinking about?

On Saturday, November 2nd, author Bryan Clark will be in the store for a reading. Clark is an author and film journalist from northern Iowa. He has three books out, Putting the Ground to Sleep and Other Weird Tales and the novelizations of the films The Killer Shrews and The Beast From Haunted Cave. His writing can also be found in various anthologies, as well as the UK-based horror film publication Scream Magazine. A lifelong fan of all things weird, he lives with his family under constant threat of being buried in an avalanche of horror paperbacks and kaiju toys.

On Wednesday, November 20, JASON D. WITTMAN reads from his work.

Jason D. Wittman works in Minnesota. He has had fiction published in Baen’s Universe, and Bruce Bethke’s Stupefying Stories. He has had two games published by Steve Jackson Games, and he can recite Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” from memory.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF Minnesota, a multicultural, multimedia organization that also sponsors the midsummer speculative fiction convention, Diversicon.

On Wednesday, January 15, Mary VanAlstine reads from their work.

Mary VanAlstine (they/she) is a writer, artist, and therapist. Writing and art have been a hobby for some twenty years now since they were a goofy little middle schooler. Mary grew up devouring fantasy, especially urban fantasy, and hearing about the writing craft from their father, a science fiction writer. Mary is best known for The Torchwood Trilogy. Mary lives in the city in Minnesota with their nerdy husband, a dramatic preschooler, a very dumb puggle named Bilbo Waggins, and two perfectly angelic cats.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF Minnesota, a multicultural, multimedia organization that also sponsors the midsummer speculative fiction convention, Diversicon.