Hey, melodican!

[annathepiper]

I just bought Sylvia Kelso's Amberlight (I'm a sucker for an amnesia plot, what can I say), and I notice a familiar name listed for cover design on the copyright page!

(And Third Place Books FTW in this instance, since I found the book there and have not been finding it at Barnes and Noble.)

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

(I'm a sucker for an amnesia plot, what can I say)

Have you tried Dispossession (http://www.chazbrenchley.co.uk/dispossession.html)? Because, well, amnesia. And a fallen angel...

[annathepiper]

Hee, I have not! Bridge of Dreams was the first of yours I've been able to find--but now I know to keep an eye out for that one, too! Thanks. :)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Third Place Books FTW

Heck yeah.... you expect Barnes and Cowes to have something good but obscure? If it's not on Ingram's A-list you're not gonna find it at the big-box bookstores. I don't even bother anymore unless I'm killing time. OTOH, I found both Mother's and pocketnaomi's $WINTERHOLIDAY presents at Third Place, each in about ten minutes....

I gotta find the rest of the lyrics to the filk the Bohnhoffs did recently....

I am the big-box, I am the Wal-Mart, cha-cha-cha-ching!

[annathepiper]

Here's the thing:

I can't buy everything I want at Third Place. For example, by and large they don't carry any of the Luna line of books, which means that I can't buy oh, say, mizkit's books there. I find that their SF/F section is therefore quite hit-or-miss. They're quite a bit better with Mystery/Suspense as well as general fiction, but SF/F is still primarily what I'm looking for.

But Luna books are common at Barnes and Noble. So I'll cheerfully shop at both. Especially since I no longer live within easy distance of the U Bookstore, the SF/F section of which beats both Barney Nobles and Third Place. ;)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Especially since I no longer live within easy distance of the U Bookstore,

Yeah you do. You can nab it on the way home. Take 70 off Fairview and John up to the stop right near it, and then backtrack to the transit center and catch 372 home. I've done this a few times myself.

Didn't expect the U Bookstore to outdo a mom and pop on SF... but then again, this *is* Geeksville USA, population us... :)

[annathepiper]

No I don't, not at least while I have to go to Kirkland for radiation treatments after work. ;) Believe me, I know how the buses work from here to the U-district, I've done it!

And yeah, the U Bookstore has a kickass SF/F section. The dude who runs that section has a fandom presence, too; he actually goes to cons and such. And he makes an effort to get a fabulous selection in. It was at the U Bookstore that I found those two obscure books by mevennen recently.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Ah. But Lady willing that will only be another two weeks, then you can go back to your shopping fun! :)

Wow, a dedicated SF maven? tres cool. Maybe I'll have to slide out early and go shopping myself... :)

[annathepiper]

His name's Duane. I've seen him at cons locally, and he knows mizkit too. Give you an example of how he goes out of his way to promote SF authors and cater to the readers: even though the U Bookstore doesn't normally carry category romance, he ordered in copies of Kit's "Cate Dermody" Bombshell romances and stocked them next to her "C.E. Murphy" books just because he figured her SF/F readers might like her other books too. ^_^

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I met him when seattlesparks took me to the Neil Gaiman signing a couple years ago. Knew he was with the Bookstore; didn't know he was *dedicated* to the SF section.

*nods* He's running the section like you would expect a mom and pop to be run... thank goodness the U has enough clue to let him!

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I need to make more effort to get over there when my schedule stabilizes again. Maybe return to a plan of U-district trips on the weekends. :) I need to head over there again soon anyway for a new round of bubble bath from the Soap Box--I still go by there every so often and buy like four or five bottles of the stuff. They know me and expect me in!

And I want to check there for more of desperance's books, too.