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.

Information about How I Learned To Love You From So Far Away can be found at:

http://www.kevinfanning.com/store/how-i-learned/

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.

…A month later, Twelve Times Lost is now in the Kindle store. It turned out to be kind of A Thing, and only by the grace and good patience of James Stegall did this come to pass.

If anyone has ever actually downloaded any of my books for the Kindle (or for the Kindle App on the iPhone? Right?), I would be very curious to know what the experience is like and how they look. Like most things on the internet post-Greymatter, I’m flying somewhat blind on this.

And I just spent 10 minutes trying to find Greymatter on Wikipedia to no avail. You guys.