Newsletter: March 2010

FROM MY SHELF
87 Main St, Wellsboro, PA 16901
www.wellsborobookstore.com

Newsletter: March 2010

News!

*Honors from ‘Bookazine’: Bookazine is a wholesale book company who specializes in taking good care of independent bookstores. Their special attention and personalized service make them to us what we are to you – set apart from larger companies because we take time to know our customers’ individual needs & to support our local communities. Bookazine has a fun home website that welcomes browsing from booklovers nationwide (you need to be a bookstore to log on to buy books there, but the book information at the home page is fun for all!) Bookazine has chosen our book blog, “Hobo’s Books”, to be their featured book review blog/website for the month! Go to www.bookazine.com to see us featured, and while you’re there, turn up the sound on your computer. Click on all the fun icons – the cat, the phone – and then click on the little TV that says “Living Room.” The TV there features short videos made by booksellers about their stores, their favorite books, new authors, etc. Notice that From My Shelf bookstore is now on one of the channels on the Bookazine “TV Guide” … showing everyone what a wonderful community we live in, and how much we at From My Shelf love you! Check back every couple of weeks, and we’ll have something new posted at the Bookazine ‘Living Room.’



Upcoming Events at the Bookstore:
(see calendar on website for details) www.wellsborobookstore.com

*Saturday, March 6th, 4 to 7pm: Woolverine Game Night, focusing more on games enjoyed by our ‘younger’ crowd: sometimes the featured games of the night are strategy games that are a bit too challenging for our youngest players. This Saturday we specifically welcome kids who play or collect Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Bakugon cards and figures. Learn how to set up a deck to play your Pokemon cards, come trade your cards with other kids, or buy some here at extra-special game night discounts. We may play some other games, too, depending on who shows up and what they’d like to play – I have a couple of people wanting to play Pirates again – but this night is especially for our young players. Free & open to the public. Light refreshments served.

*Saturday, March 20th, 12 to 3pm: Double author event! We’re hosting Mike D’Aloisio, author of the “5 C Hero”, who coached local athlete-gone-pro, Joel Stephens. Coaching Joel, and knowing him throughout his struggle with cancer inspired Coach D’Aloisio to want to keep Joel’s story, his strength, his character, and especially his faith, alive. Come meet Mike, talk with Joel’s family, and learn why Joel was the example he is. At the same time, extend your welcome to Rachel Castellanos, Christian fiction author of “Gentle Forbearance”. Rachel’s book would be of great interest to those who love Janette Oke, Karen Kingsbury, the Love Inspired or Steeple Hill Café romances. Stop in and say ‘hi’, get a free T-shirt from KC101 … we’re having a live radio broadcast with Jenn Thomas of our favorite hometown country radio station!

Sunday, March 21st: Writing Seminar: Self-Publishing & Marketing Your Book: How to Get Started, What to Consider, Pitfalls to Avoid: facilitated by Kasey, featuring guest commentary by several successful writers who have self-published 1 to 4pm, at the bookstore
seminar cost: $15 (pre-registration highly recommended)

****Every week, we have people ask us how they might go about publishing a book they are writing. Inevitably, we get twice as many phone calls and emails from recently self-published authors, asking us if we will consider carrying their book in our bookstore. If you have written a book, or are considering writing a book, or have been told you should write a book about your area of expertise, perhaps self-publishing is for you. (It may not be; we’re happy to tell you that, too!) Find out what to find out, how to weigh different companies, what pros & cons exist, from local folks who have seen the self-publishing industry from both sides of the table – as booksellers who do work with self-published authors, but only under certain situations; and as self-published authors, ourselves, who want to share our mistakes & successes. Packet of info plus light refreshments included in seminar fee.

“Read it before you see it”:
*Dear Johnand/or The Last Song-- both by Nicholas Sparks
*Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
*Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll …. also, check out The Looking Glass Wars,
Seeing Redd, and/or Hatter M by Frank Beddor
*Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
*How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

And, on deck for this fall: an animated, family-friendly fantasy movie, “The Legend of the Guardians”, based on this series we’ve loved, “The Guardians of the Ga’hoole” by Kathryn Lasky. We always have this series in, and often have used copies (at least of the first several), so you can try it to see how much you’ll like it!


Discovering a New Author -- from Kevin

Waiting for the next book from your favorite author can feel like forever. That's why nothing beats that feeling of discovering a new writer with an established body of work. I recently read "Agent to the Stars" by John Scalzi and immediately ordered more for the bookstore and for myself. You can catch my review on our blog http://frommyshelf.blogspot.com . If you like old-school style sci-fi in the style of Robert Heinlein, yet adding twist and variations making the story truly his own, Scalzi is the new author for you, too!


Michelle's Corner


The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by J.R. Ward:

Men. Big, bad, sexy, hunka hunka burn'in love men. Do I have your attention? Are you thinking, I want me one of those? Well, you need to read J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series. This is the story of six vampire warriors who are charged with the guarding of their race, but their enemy, the Lessening, are always looking for ways to destroy them. Each book tells the story of one of the warriors. You won’t want to put them down once you begin. Start out and read the first book, which is Dark Lover. This tells the story of Wrath, the king of the vampire race, the most powerful and only full blooded vampire left on the planet. If you find you like these, then check out J.R.'s other series, called 'The Fallen Angels': in October she just released the first book called Covet.

Michelle's picks for new releases not to miss

(These series need to be read in order)

March 2nd - In Bed with The Duke (The Governess Brides Series) by Christina Dodd

March 16th - The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz

March 30th - Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate) by Gail Carriger

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(This book can be read on its own, but you may want to read Ravishing in Red first to gain some additional information on the characters in this book)

Feb 23rd - Provocative in Pearls by Madeline Hunter


This just in! New releases/new inventory to celebrate!

*The Last Train to Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino -- yes, we’ve got it. Yes, there’s been a lot of controversy and scuttlebutt over this author and this book. Yes, it’s been discontinued. Yes, James Cameron says he still wants to make a movie out of it. Come in and see why.

*The $64 Tomato by William Alexander

*Hex & the City by Simon Green (part of this really cool series, Tales of the Nightside)

*The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert Howard & Gary Gianni

*Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory by H. A. Rey

*House Rules by Jodi Picoult

*The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf

*Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curious and Curiouser (anthology)

*On A Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place by Charles Salzberg

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