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April Musings
The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association regularly sends us flyers listing monthly Midwest Connections Picks. Check out the books we have in stock in the picture shown above and consider supporting these authors by venturing out to one of our events and purchasing a book by a midwest author.
Vintage is written by Madison author Susan Gloss. Mystery to Me will be teaming up with a Monroe Street clothing store, Velvet Button to have Susan available to sign books at the clothing store. This event is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 12. Check the website for updates.
If you like good ol' fashion gothic mysteries, Joanne just finished reading Wendy Webb's The Vanishing. It's a terrific and downright haunting ghost story set in current times. Wendy will be at the store to discuss her book on April 23 at 7pm.
Mystery to Me will be at the Madison Public Library Foundation's annual luncheon to sell Nevada Barr's new book, Destroyer Angel. If you purchase Destroyer Angel from Mystery to Me, 20% of the sale will go to the Library Foundation. Check the link to the Library for details.
One of the books not pictured above is on schedule to be in the store on Tuesday - Brian Freeman's new psychological thriller, The Cold Nowhere. It's a a book recommended for readers who like John Sandford and Lisa Gardner.
By the Numbers....
Despite rain, sleet, snow, wind, and dark of night (!) the store is doing quite well... In fact, since opening last June we have sold more than 10,000 books!
Of course, great sales numbers allow us to continue to purchase wonderful new and exciting mysteries by a diversity of authors. Thanks to you, we have also been able to significantly increase our children and young adult selection (see note below about a request made to James Patterson). And, although it's a small part of the store, we do have a nice selection of fiction and non-fiction work by local and regional authors. If you're a bit adventuresome (and what mystery-lover isn't), you might stop into an event featuring some of these non-mystery folks.
Since our very first author reading (Jenny Milchman, Cover of Snow) on July 19, 2013, Mystery to Me has hosted more than 95 authors at 40 different events.
In 10 months our newsletter subscriptions have increased from just under 500 to more than 1700 readers.
Our top 10 best-sellers for the last 10 months:
1 - View from the Interior by Susan Riseling
2 - Sleep When You're Dead by Chris Hollenback (Chris will be here April 17!)
3 - Heritage of Darkness by Kathleen Ernst (Kathleen will be launching her new Chloe book at Mystery to Me in November...stay tuned)
4 - First Degree Fudge by Chris DeSmet (Chris has a new book coming out this spring - we'll keep you posted about her visiting our store)
5 - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Note: Leaving Everything Most Loved will be available in paper on April 8. And, to all of you who love Maisie, there will be no Maisie book this year (Oh my....). Instead, The Care and Management of LIes will be published in July. Care and Management is a novel set in the opening months of the great war. The novel will launch in conjunction with the centennial anniversary of WWI, August 1914. A new series featuring Maisie will be available in 2015).
6 - Bat by Jo Nesbo
7 - Tamarack County by William Kent Krueger
8 - Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
9 - Light Keeper's Legacy by Kathleen Ernst
10 - Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (Erin Hart and Paddy O'Brien are making a return visit to Mystery to Me on April 11)
Mystery to Me Hours
Beginning April 1
Tuesday - Friday: 10 - 7pm
Saturday: 10 - 5pm
Sunday: 11 - 4pm
Open later for special events
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or Kevin Henkes reads from The Year of Billy Miller. Kevin is joined by illustrator Laura Dronzak and her new book, It is Night 