Dear Friends,
 

In August we closed the doors on our Massachusetts Avenue location. Thank you to the hundred or so people who came out to help up get packed up in just one day! It was a bittersweet time. We're planning to reopen as a web-based store sometime in March, 2010. I never had time to inventory all of our stock and am doing so as we unpack.
 

You are welcome to call or email during this transition and I will happily fill orders for you if I can.

If you would like to have your email added to my list of people who want to be notified about the web site launch or with regard to upcoming events in our area, please send me you email.

Thank you,

Kate Mattes
katesmysbks@earthlink.net

 
Kate's Store Closing Note:

Many of you have been aware that I have had the building which houses the store on the market for awhile. I have finally sold it. I of course have mixed feelings about this but know it is the right decision for me. The new owners have allowed me to stay on for a while but Kate's Mystery Books will be closing on August 1st.

Between now and then, everything in the store will be sold at 25% off. 

On Saturday, August 1st, we will be having a packing party from 11-5 AND we will also have our Annual Yard Sale (books $1 and under) at the same time.

I hope you can get in the next few weeks to say good-bye although I won't actually disappear. We will be having author events at different venues and of course we will have the annual holiday party so there will be opportunities for the mystery community to get together. You will get notices of them from me.

It is sad though to close the store. I hope you can join us on August 1st to celebrate the good times we have had and to help pack everything up. I know we can do it, as we have done it before. (Remember the bus?)

It is been a true joy for me to have had the opportunity to me such interesting and diverse people and I will definitely miss you.

Best, Kate

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