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.

…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.

I forgot to mention: the good folks who brought you Infinite Summer present a new project: Infinite Dracula! During the month of October we’re reading the original Dracula novel by Bram Stoker.

I’ll be posting my thoughts on Mondays all this month, and commenting on the posts that the other guides (Zulkey and Baldwin) write.

My first post is here. So far I’m totally digging the book and the project and the community. Reading books and then talking about them: it just makes sense.

Exciting: three of my books are now available for the Kindle (or your iPhone, if you have the Kindle app? I guess? I’m not really sure how these things work anymore).

Touch Anything Except Me

Fever Dream Ghost Book

The Location Scout

I need to flesh out the book descriptions at Amazon. I am terrible at this. For now Goodreads is still the best place to find information and reviews.

I’m hoping to have Twelve Times Lost available soon as well. It’s currently tied up in questions about e-book rights, since it’s also available in print. On the one hand, it’s kind of a hassle (it’s available in print from a friend of mine, and the book pre-dates e-book rights. We did not know from e-book rights in 2002). But on the other hand, I’m totally glad to see Amazon engaged in due diligence before these things go live in the Kindle store. So far it’s a good problem to have. Ask me again in a few weeks.

The process of Kindling the texts was pretty straight-forward, thanks to John August’s tutorial. It is exactly like coding a website was in 1998, which made it a delightfully relaxing endeavor, in an age when I do not understand how a Tumblr works.

I priced the books at $0.99 each. This seems reasonable to me. Is it? I spend that much on an mp3 without thinking twice. I can see cases for making them either less or more expensive. It’s mostly academic since Amazon keeps most of the money. That’s part of the deal when you control the means of conveyance. I just want people to read the stories, basically.

If you happen to download them, let me know how it goes, or if you see any problems. I’m still new at this. We all are.