Full Copy/Paste from Larry Correia’s Blog
MAY 30, 2020 CORREIA45
The GoFundMe for Uncle Hugos is now live. Please, share this far and wide.
For those of you that don’t know, Uncle Hugo’s is a locally owned, indy bookstore in Minneapolis. It got burned down last night by rioters. The building it a total loss. All the inventory was destroyed.
Uncle Hugo’s has been there since 1974. It was a special place, beloved by the locals. Because it specialized in used books, a bunch of irreplaceable 1st editions and signed copies by authors who are no longer with us were lost.
Don Blyly is the owner. On a personal level, he’s the bookstore owner who got a copy of my first manuscript, who then passed it on to Toni Weisskopf at Baen, telling her that it was a perfect fit for Baen, and that he could sell this book, except the dummy who wrote it was self publishing. I’ve been to Uncle Hugo’s to sign books probably eight or nine times now. Basically, Don helped launch my career, and I’m not alone.
Don is trying to figure out how to proceed, with a new location, or with a scaled down operation.
Let Us Help Save Uncle Hugo’s
Just the cost of one box of ammo if you can. The burning of books is something that we cannot tolerate.
Barbarians.
Looks like Larry’s starting his own and this one has been paused.
Sorry, the owner Don, not Larry.
Any link to the new one? I just now (16:30 MST) searched and only found the paused one.
Don Blyly’s son here. My dad won’t be doing any sort of GoFundMe until he’s done talking to his lawyer and his insurance company. Probably won’t have anything active until next week at the earliest.