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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

[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