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So, there’s a calendar, the 2015 Classic Trains wall calendar by Calendar Ink, and a friend of mine, Thad, owns the calendar and her husband Mr. Thad happened to notice yesterday that I am Mr. April.

That text above is a quote from my steampunk fantasy novel The Dead Isle, randomly printed in a train calendar. I mean, obviously not totally randomly, it’s a quote about trains on a train calendar, not like, a quote about fish on a train calendar. But it’s not as though I’m an expert on trains or something. And I had no idea they had done this. I guess someone googled for quotes about trains and mine turned up and they were like welp, that one looks good, throw it on April.

I don’t know what to do with this. I can’t stop laughing about it. Especially since the owner of the calendar tells me:

They put you on a mighty 4-12-2, one of the biggest and most powerful non-articulated locomotives ever built.

So I guess if I had to go on a calendar at least I went fuckin’ large, yo.

I never in my wildest childhood imaginings dreamed that I would one day have to deal with the cognitive dissonance of seeing my name on a calendar about trains. (Five year old me would have been thrilled to hear it, though.)