A few things:

1) There are 15-ish? I think? copies left of How I Learned To Love You From So Far Away. Once those are gone I think we’ll be done with it.* It’s expensive to print and so heavy to carry. A bunch of people have listed it as “to read” on Goodreads. Pray God they notice this blog update and act with haste.

2) Look at all these pictures and quotes and reactions to the book that I’ve collected over on the tumblr. How lucky am I.

3) Josh Luft of What A Fool Believes recently interviewed me and the results were mind-blowing. He had me send him answers, which he used to then create the questions. Some of what I’m talking about here is about my next book, but you wouldn’t know it. Josh Luft does amazing work; read the interview here.

4) I’ve been writing a lot of chats lately if you are a person who likes imaginary internet-based conversation.

5) Oh, internet. Hang in there.

*ETA: Except for the Amazon Kindle version, of which there are infinity copies remaining.

A few months ago a fellow by the name of Jim Bennett emailed me asking for permission to turn some of my stories into short films. I said “Sure!” and figured that would be the last I ever heard of it, because I know how it is, with plans and the ladies and so forth. But then a few weeks ago I got an email from him saying “OK, almost done,” and I looked up from the level of Lego Batman I was playing to be all  “Wah???” and then almost right away I got another saying “OK, done, here’s the link.”

So I guess he showed me.

Jim did an amazing job turning The Vanishing Act into a short film. It’s all the more impressive to me in light of the fact that he’s a high school senior, because when I was a senior I did nothing BUT talk about all the movies I wanted to make. And that’s exactly as far as I ever got, talking about it.

Anyways, this made for a great start to the year. Please check out Jim’s version of The Vanishing Act.

Dear everyone: I hope things are going OK for you. This is just a note to let you know that  I am leaving the country for a few days, so tomorrow (Tuesday the 22nd of December, 2009) will be the last day I can ship out copies of How I Learned until January. Basically any orders that come in today before 8 pm Eastern time will go out tomorrow.

This is not life-and-death stuff here, but it seemed worth noting.

If you are waiting to see some reviews before deciding whether to purchase, people named Tyler and Maré have given it 4 stars on Goodreads.

Thank you.

If you are a big-picture thinker, interested in more holiday/end-of-year type information, I made a list of things about 2009 here.

How I Learned To Love You From So Far Away is a collection of stories about love & technology. There are 21 stories in all, of which five are completely new. In most cases the other 16 have been significantly revised since they originally appeared here or in journals.

The cover is by David Steadman of Column Studio.

The bare facts of the book are that it is 1/2 size, 36pp, and about 8500 words all told. How much it costs depends on where in the world you live.

It is also available for the Kindle, for $1.99, here. Either way.

I lived with these stories for a long time and I’m happy to be letting them go now. I hope you like them. Thank you!

Shipping to

USA $8.00 Canada $9.00 Anywhere else $10.00

It being understood that:

• I have a bunch of different websites, and that
• I don’t update any of them with any regularity, and that in fact
• Instances of my having actually important news to relay are few and far between

But also bearing in mind that:

• I like feeling connected to people, you know? and that
• I get emails from people saying “Hey keep me updated when X happens,” because after all
• We all have lives, and I certainly wouldn’t expect that
• Just because I have 10 websites doesn’t mean anyone feels like paying attention to every blessed one, I certainly don’t

It might be a good idea to:

• Set up an email newsletter type thing, for the rare times when I actually want to send a message to your world that something interesting or new is happening in my world.

You can find it:

• here at kevinfanning.com

It will be very low-traffic as I explained:

• here.

So say:

• we all.