news </head> <body class="layout-one-column"> <div id="container"> <div id="container-inner" class="pkg"> <div id="pagebody"> <div id="pagebody-inner" class="pkg"> <div id="alpha"> <div id="alpha-inner" class="pkg"> <p class="content-nav"> <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/2009/12/best-of-09-lists.html">« Best of '09 Lists</a> | <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/">Main</a> | <a href="http://patricksomerville.typepad.com/news/2010/03/my-next-novel-good-sense.html">My Next Novel - Good Sense »</a> </p> <h2 class="date-header">02/10/2010</h2> <div class="entry" id="entry-6a00d83453a8ca69e20120a888e445970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"> Trouble's on Kindle, Sort of Insane Collection of Short Stories Cooking in the Oven, Paperback's A-comin', Gabriel's A-comin' </h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p style="font-family: Georgia;">February seems to have become the Month of Snowblowing here in the <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/travel/07surfacing.html" target="_blank">now-deemed-funky</a> Edgewater/Roger's Park neighborhood (I already knew), and I thought I'd take this moment to post a few pieces of news.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia;">One: Vintage has now converted Trouble over to a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0037BS2L8/?tag=gkindle-20" target="_blank">Kindle-friendly format</a>, so if you're a fan of The Cradle and have one of those fancy devices and want to check out my first book, have at it.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia;">Two: I noted it on Facebook already, but <a href="http://www.featherproof.com/Mambo/" target="_blank">my third book and second collection of short stories</a> will be out this fall from featherproof books. It's called "The Universe in Miniature in Miniature"--the title story was published in American Short Fiction last summer. Yes, the book has aliens. Yes, this book references Cocoon several times, but for a reason. Unlike Trouble, the book is seriously linked, with quite a few labyrinthine connections binding the characters together into one--this is a literary term, now--clump. I'll post more about it down the road. For now, I'm cooking. Can you smell? Don't make a mean joke.</p><p style="font-family: Georgia;">Three: In the meantime, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Novel-Patrick-Somerville/dp/0316036110/ref=sr_1_1_oe_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1265839474&sr=1-1" target="_blank">the paperback edition of The Cradle</a> will be out this April. Look for it in stores on April 12th, and look for me on the west coast sometime in May. I'll get the whole tour up on the site in a few weeks. Definitely Seattle and Portland. Hopefully more.</p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Four: Amazing writer and old friend Jerry Gabriel will be <a href="http://lit.newcity.com/lit-events/" target="_blank">coming to Chicago</a> for his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drowned-Boy-Stories-Jerry-Gabriel/dp/1932511784" target="_blank">Drowned Boy</a>, and I'll be reading with him and fellow writer Mark Rader at The Book Cellar on February 18th. Jerry's book contains a number of absolutely stunning stories--that's all I can say. 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