Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery ...

The Watson nominees (another special award given
this year to the mystery novel with the best
sidekick) are Wild Penance by Sandi Ault ($14.00),
Dead Lift by Rachel Brady ($24.95 hc or $14.95 trade
pb), Rolling Thunder by Chris Grabenstein ($25.00),
Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson ($25.95) and To Fetch
a Thief by Spencer Quinn ($25.00).
HOW'S BUSINESS
by Don Blyly
Business has been terrible, thanks to the weather.
Business was up for nine of the first ten months of
2010. Business was up nicely for the first week of
November. Then winter hit hard. Saturday is usually
by far our best day of the week. Of the eight
Saturdays leading up to Christmas, three Saturdays
we were forecast to have heavy snow (and often the
forecast is more important than how much snow we
really receive) and three Saturdays we had ice
storms. The two Saturdays with good weather, sales
were way up, but not enough to make up for the other
six Saturdays. For that eight week period, our sales
were down more than $10,000 from the same period the
year before. The Saturday of the big blizzard, Uncle
Hugo’s saw two customers and $25 in sales, while
Uncle Edgar’s didn’t see a single customer. Of the
four staff people on duty, I was the only one who
had driven to work, so an hour after the bus system
for the metro area was shut down, the four of us dug
out my car and I gave everybody else rides to their