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The Golems

Web Webster writes, "Enjoying the podcast of Someone Comes To Town Someone Leaves Town. Excellent hearing it read by the author and I'm amazed at how much I didn't pick up the first time I read it. Wanted to share a link to a Flickr set I shot this weekend. We went to Smithville, Tennessee to The Joe C. Evins Center for Craft and its annual Celebration. In wandering through the Ceramics building I ran across a set of pieces that immediately recalled the Golems from Someone."

The Golems and pieces of Davey

Someone Comes to Town and Truncat in Slovak

Pavol Hvizdos just finished translating two of my works into Slovak, releasing the translations under Creative Commons licenses and putting them on the Internet Archive. Pavol chose my third novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and my short story Truncat (a sequel, of sorts, to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom). This is way too cool.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town in Slovakian,

Truncat in Slovakian

Slovak fan-translations of my books

Pavol Hvizdos, a Slovak speaker, has translated three of my books into Slovakian -- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, and Overclocked. The translations are Creative Commons licensed for your remixing and sharing pleasure.

I can't tell you how awesomely cool it is to have readers spontaneously undertake major translation projects just for the fun of it. I believe that sharing my books under CC licenses inspires my readers to promote them, and this is the proof that it works. w00t!

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Someone Comes to Town quoted on CBS’s Criminal Minds

Last night's episode of Criminal Minds on CBS opened with a quote from my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town -- keen!

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(Thanks to everyone who wrote in about this!)

Someone Comes to Town shortlisted for Canada’s Sunburst award

I'm pleased as punch to say that my novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leave Town has been shortlisted for the Sunburst, Canada's national science fiction award. The Sunburst jury honored me with the award in 2004 for my short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More and this is a double-helping of delight.

Someone Comes to Town... comes out in a new trade paperback edition this week, too!

Free

Aust Gate, the excellent science fiction bookstore in Oxford, England is offering free UK shipping on signed copies of the paperback of my novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which comes out next month. Just contact the store with your order and inscription information, and I'll sign and inscribe all the orders on June 19. They'll also take orders for my other books, and I'm happy to sign/inscribe those too. Just get your order in before June 19!

Locus Recommended Reading List 2005

I'm delighted to note that Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town was selected for Locus Recommended Reading List for 2005 in their best novels category!

Reading/signing in London tomorrow

A reminder: I'm doing a a reading and signing tomorrow (Monday) night at London's Stanhope Centre, near Marble Arch, at 6:30PM. Books will be on sale and light refreshments provided. Hope to see you there!

Someone as a daily feed

This is such a cool reminx of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town -- an RSS feed that gives you a couple pages every day. No matter when you subscribe to it, it sends you the book starting from the beginning. Subscribe via Winksite and it'll come to your phone in daily bite-sized pieces.

(Thanks, Charles!)

Signing/reading in London next Monday

I'm giving a signing and reading for my latest book, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, at London's Stanhope Centre next Monday, Oct 24 at 6PM. There will be copies of all my books on sale, and the kind folks at Stanhope are also providing "light refreshments." Hope to see you there!

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