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Get yourself a piece of Sanchez Motorworks (from my novel The Mystery of Grace). Cool T-shirt and you're helping kids.

If you ever find yourself on Battersfield Road in Lower Crowsea looking for good spirits—of all sorts—ask one of the students to point you to Kathryn's Café. It's the center of the social world in town, although it might as well be in another world. And if you never make it to Lower Crowsea... buy the shirt.

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New Books for 2009
Muse and Reverie (2009) Muse and Reverie
Tor, December 2009
Muse and Reverie is an all-new collection of short fiction in Charles de Lint's "Newford" universe—the fifth such collection since 1993, and the first since 2002. Previous collections are Dreams Underfoot, The Ivory and the Horn, the World Fantasy Award-winning Moonlight and Vines, and Tapping the Dream Tree.

Tor Books is publishing Muse and Reverie in hardcover in December, 2009.

Eyes Like Leaves (2009) Eyes Like Leaves
Subterranean Press, 2009
This is classic high fantasy, written and revised by a master, unpublished when first completed some 30 years ago because de Lint decided to focus on contemporary fantasy stories and let it languish. It is a must for de Lint completists and, actually, for all high-fantasy and folkloristic fiction fans.
Source: Booklist

Subterrannean Press is publishing Eyes Like Leaves in a hard cover edition.

www.subterraneanpress.com

Medicine Road (2004) Medicine Road
Tachyon, June 2009
It was supposed to be another novella, around the length of Seven Wild Sisters, but by the time I turned it in, this visit with the musical Dillard twins had become a 60,000 word novel.

Tachyon Publications is publishing Medicine Road in a trade paperback edition.

www.tachyonpublications.com

The Mystery of Grace (2009) The Mystery of Grace
Tor, March 2009
Altagracia—her friends call her Grace—has a tattoo of Nuestra Señora de Altagracia on her shoulder; she's got a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg; and she has grease worked so deep into her hands that'll never wash out.

Grace works at Sanchez Motor Works, customizing hot rods. A few blocks around her small apartment building is all her world—from the grocery store where she buys beans, tamales and cigarettes to the library, the little record shop, and the Solona Music Hall. Which is where she meets John Burns, just two weeks too late.

The Mystery of Grace is now available in audio format & digital download from Blackstone Audio and is also available from iTunes.

The Onion Girl (2001) The Onion Girl
Subterranean Press, 2009
The Subterranean Press special edition of The Onion Girl features not only an original, exclusive introduction by Charles, but a full-color cover, endsheets, and a chapter head illustration by Mike Dringenberg, who contributed the striking cover to Promises to Keep.

www.subterraneanpress.com

Woods and Waters Wild (2009) Woods and Waters Wild
Subterrannean Press, 2009
Woods and Waters Wild is the third volume of Charles de Lint's Collected Early Stories. Here is the table of contents, a list of obscurities that will be the envy of de Lint readers everywhere.

Subterrannean Press is publishing Woods and Waters Wild in a hard cover edition.

Audiobooks
Blackstone Audio Blackstone Audio has now released audiobooks for such titles as The Mystery of Grace, The Onion Girl, Moonheart, Memory and Dream and Dreams Underfoot. They are available as tapes/CDs (including MP3 format) from many retailers, You can also buy them as a digital download from web sites such as iTunes and Blackstone Audio themselves. I'm especially happy that some of my work will finally be available to visually impaired folks.

10 March 2009
MaryAnn and I will be in Tucson, AZ, this weekend, exchanging the huge piles of snow in our neighbourhood for cacti, desert and warmth. The sad part is we have to leave the pup and cat behind, but they'll both be well looked after. MaryAnn and I will probably have more separation anxiety than they will. The good part is that we get to meet however many of you who are planning to attend the first Tucson Festival of Books on the University of Arizona campus.

For more, please read all of the newsletter.

31 December 2008
Well, here we are at the end of a long and weird year, though I don't suppose it's longer than any other. It just feels that way. Like many of you, we've felt the crunch of the economic downturn. We've had to tighten our belts and couldn't even afford to do a chapbook this year, which is kind of sad, since it would have been the 30th. But there's always next year.

For more, please read all of the newsletter.

17 November 2008
Hey folks, if you're in the northern climes like we are here in Ottawa, your trees are mostly bare, Thanksgiving's come and gone, and the carved pumpkins are getting a little past your prime, though in some cases, the decay makes them more visually interesting in a Halloweenish way. We've also had our first serious snowstorm, but happily, the results didn't stick around.

For more, please read all of the newsletter.

2 October 2008
The trees are in their autumn splendor, the nights are chilly and Canadian Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I hope this finds you & yours well and happy. Thought I'd give you one of my infrequent updates...

For more, please read all of the newsletter.

5 February 2008
I hope this finds you all happy, snug and cozy as we ride out another long winter. Here in Ottawa, we've broken all records for snowfall and I'm glad we bought ourselves a small snowblower last November.

For more, please read all of the newsletter.

20 August 2007
During the month of September, I'll be making appearances at locations in North Carolina, Texas, California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Drop by and say hello.

29 July 2007
Widdershins has made the British Fantasy Society Award Recommendations for 2007. You can read about it at www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/?p=111

12 March 2007
The Blue Girl has won the 2007 Great Lakes Great Books Award for grades 9-12. If you wish to know more about the GLGB Award, please check the Michigan Association website: www.michiganreading.org.

5 January 2007
The Blue Girl has been nominated for the 2008 Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona). You can read more about it at www.grandcanyonreaderaward.org.

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