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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.)

Comments

[sherylyn]

That. is. frickin'. AWESOME, though!! I just love when things like that happen, and you're suddenly, "Hey, I know..." or "Ooh, that's...!"

There's a calendar on my daughter's bedroom wall here at home (she's about to graduate college, so it's not as if she's here much), that's at *least* 6 years old now, and it's permanently opened to a page where a friend of hers from about kindergarten/first grade is the one posing in the photo. And it's for a national horsemanship organization. So... yeah. It's kinda cool that we know that young lady (who's now been on a national championship equestrian team more than once). If she ever makes it to the Olympics, we'll be almost-famous (yeah, right). LOL!!

And I'm sure Sheldon Cooper would think you're an absolute celeb, too, just FYI ;-)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mr. Thad must have had an interesting moment when he uncovered it :D

[brightly-woven.livejournal.com]

The Interwebs for the win.

I think this is the best internet-related thing I've heard in a long time.

And I loved the Dead Isle.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it! This is super crazy, isn't it? :D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

That is intensely cool. Yeahhhhh!

[jonaht.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is pretty cool! Congratulations on spreading your awesomeness.

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

*inarticulate screeching*

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Train sounds! :D

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

That is the most random and most hilarious thing I've heard all day. Your internet fame is expressing itself in very odd ways.

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL. Would've been cooler if they'd contacted you to let you know about it, but yay for seeing one's work appear in unexpected ways (with attribution)!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That's great - and hopefully one or two people will buy the book on the strength of it.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It IS good publicity, though woulda been better if they'd put the book title on there... :D

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

That's kind of hilarious.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

There you are, just confirmation that you have carved a niche for yourself on the Internet. :D ;D Awesome sauce!

[riari.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's really cool!!

And I just bought The Dead Isle too! It is on the way to my mail box now. :D (Had to buy the printed version because of Yay books!)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you for your purchase! I hope you enjoy your paper copy :D

[riari.livejournal.com]

I just got it today! Holy fudge this is massive. Guess I didn't pay attention to the page count when ordering but wow. I'm going to enjoy reading this!

And for some reason Lulu sent another book with my order. About some Afghanistan War Series. I'm very confused. Thought they sent someone else's order instead of mine when I was unwrapping it. I'll be contacting them about it, in case someone else's order did tag along with mine.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Huh, how weird! One time I ordered 25 copies of Charitable Getting (for making signed copies) and they got the code wrong and printed and sent 25 copies of a book called "Chicks Dig Guys That Cook" instead. I laughed a LOT. :D

[riari.livejournal.com]

LOL. Well they had extra then if you had to send it back. :)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

They actually asked me to destroy them, since the guy who did the book didn't need more copies, I guess. I ended up giving them out to random people :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Also yes, the book is a total doorstop, it's...long. :D

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Coolest thing I've heard in a LONG time, Sam. Internet famous indeed, in more ways than one.