Authors Steven Barnes and Mark Rich are in town as guests of Diversicon, and will be doing readings in the store on Thursday, July 13th at 6:30 pm.

Steven Barnes is the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of more than 30 novels. Nominated for Nebula and Hugo awards, writer of the Emmy-winning “A Stitch in Time” episode of The Outer Limits, and winner of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Award, Barnes is a pioneering Afrofuturist writer, and one of the most honored voices in the field. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, British Fantasy Award-winning novelist Tananarive Due. Barnes has taught and lectured at UCLA, USC, the University of Washington, Mensa, Pasadena JPL, the Smithsonian Museum, the University of North Carolina, and many others.

Mark Rich is the author of C.M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary. He has also published poetry, fiction, and four books about toys and toy marketing.

Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven and SF MINNESOTA, a multicultural organization that also sponsors a midsummer speculative fiction convention, DIVERSICON, the 30th edition of which will occur July 14 -16, 2023 at the Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West hotel with Guest of Honor STEVEN BARNES.

Saturday, August 26th from 2-4 pm, DreamHaven will be hosting An Afternoon with Independent Graphic Novel Creators. On hand will be:

Blue Delliquanti, a comic artist and writer based in Minneapolis. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star at ohumanstar.com and have since worked on graphic novels and novellas including Across a Field of Starlight and Adversary. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

On Tuesday, September 5th, artist, author and musician Steven Johnson Leyba will be doing a reading in support of his new album, I Speak The Songs Because The World No Longer Sings.

This will be an adults-only event.

More details as they are worked out.

On Wednesday September 13, Abby Andresen will be in the store reading from her work.

Abby Andresen started writing horror after discovering the work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and other women writers of dark fiction. Since publishing her darkly comic novel, An Inappropriate Crush, in 2017, she has had stories published in several horror anthologies, most recently in Land of 10,000 Nightmares: Minnesota Tales of Terror by Glint Media. Before that she wrote articles and essays for several Minnesota publications, including Minneapolis/St Paul Magazine, and worked as a Minneapolis-based standup comedian. She tries to mix a little humor with her horror.

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

Greg will be out at Valley Creek Mall in Woodbury for the MN Comic Exchange Comic Show – say hi!

Full details here: MN Comic Exchange

Though probably best known for her Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede has been publishing constantly since 1982. Her latest novel is The Dark Lord’s Daughter, and she will be in the store on October 18th from 6:30-8 pm reading from her work and signing books.

DreamHaven will be set up and selling at the Bloomington Armory for Fallcon!  Come on by and say hi!

More info here: MNCBA.org