Former Davis Square resident announces publication of her first novel

[heatheralbano.livejournal.com]

Former Davis Square resident Heather Albano is pleased to announce the publication of her first novel!

TIMEPIECE is a steampunk time travel adventure about a girl, a pocket watch, Frankenstein’s monster, the Battle of Waterloo, and giant clockwork robots taking over London - no, really - and it was largely written in Davis Square coffee shops!

Download it for your Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Timepiece-ebook/dp/B005QD0TGG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317661582&sr=8-1

Download it for your Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/timepiece-heather-albano/1106037183?ean=2940013366398&itm=1&usri=heather%2balbano

Or download it for pretty much every e-reader format that exists, as well as pdf, plain text, and html: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/93451

It is 99 cents on all platforms.

For more information about Heather's creative projects, go to http://www.heatheralbano.com

Comments

[ron_newman]

I buy most of my coffee at Mr. Crepe so I do consider it a coffee shop (especially since it replaced another one at the same site, the Someday). Blue Shirt, not so much.

You describe yourself as a "former" Davis Square resident. Are you still in the greater Camberville/Somerbridge area?

[ifotismeni]

blogs say she's in portland, maine

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty damn sure I've seen that face in the Diesel, and I have connections on LinkedIn that vouch for her having been here, so...

[ifotismeni]

...!? is this some new thing to call it The Diesel? is this like The Google or something?

[ron_newman]

I often call it "the Diesel" (without the capital The) rather than "Diesel Cafe". Ditto for "the Someday".

[ifotismeni]

whaaat. i have no idea how i missed that train, i've never heard it called that, only just "diesel" or "diesel cafe."

(i'm not calling BS on it, just honestly bemused)

[ron_newman]

also "the 1369", in Inman or Central square. (But never "the Starbucks" or "the True Grounds")

[ifotismeni]

....didn't really mean to go down that rabbit hole. just honestly have never heard it called that.

[ron_newman]

Heck, at this point we may as well list all of our favorite coffee places. I was about to add in "the Sherman" in Union Square (but never "the Bloc 11", though I do like them as well)

[heatheralbano.livejournal.com]

Wonder if I'm showing my age? I was a Davis Square resident from 1999 to 2006. I feel like "the diesel" was common parlance in '99, at least. Anybody reading want to back me up here?

[heatheralbano.livejournal.com]

And yeah, along with "the Someday" and "the 1369."

[cowgrrl.livejournal.com]

I've always called it "the diesel". (And it was back then that I used to go there, now that you mention it...)

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

I've been a Davis Denizen since the early 1990's and this is the first I've heard of it being called "the" Diesel. Although I always called it "the" Someday...amongst other things.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Though Starbucks has lots of locations so you could use "the Starbucks" to mean "that *particular* Starbucks". (i.e. in the airport, "I'm going to run to the Starbucks by the security checkpoint to get coffee. Do you want one?"). Does that count? :)

[doogly.livejournal.com]

Oh, it can be the true grounds. Definite articles for everything! It is because I studied the Greek though, most likely.

[ifotismeni]

hahaha, i'm greek-american but I don't like definite articles in english! your comment made me laugh though because i totally know what you mean :P

[dominika-kretek.livejournal.com]

I can definitely say "the True Grounds" or even "the Starbucks," especially if I have a particular Starbucks in mind and my listener would know which one I mean. Almost like "I'm headed to the Starbucks across the street." gets shortened to "I'm headed to the Starbucks."

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

I think I only drop the "the" when it's "A Diesel meetup" sort of thing. But now, you have me curious.. I'm going to see if I can watch what I call it without getting self-conscious aforehand...

[ifotismeni]

hahah this is like those tests to see if you call a highway or interstate "the [number]" or just "[number]" and whether or not that says what part of the country you're from. cracks me up when i hear people say they got stuck in traffic on "the 93" or something, though you'd be OK to say traffic on "the pike" sucked.

jfc what have i done with this grammatical quibble!?!

[dcltdw]

I think it's a Boston thing. Having worked a bit in EMS, a lot of hospitals get a "the" prefix ("En route to the General", "Head over to the Brigham..."). Only exception I can think of is Boston Medical Center, although usually that gets shortened to "the BMC". :)

[heatheralbano.livejournal.com]

Connections on LinkedIn - huh. Camberville is a small place - who do we know in common?

[heatheralbano.livejournal.com]

Nope - near Worcester - but the Greater Portland Scribists kindly invited me to guest blog.

[ifotismeni]

my apologies, that blog post threw me off a bit.

[heatheralbano.livejournal.com]

Easy mistake to make!

[heatheralbano.livejournal.com]

I live out near Worcester now, but because I work for myself and have many friends in the greater Camberville area, tend to spend one day a week or so hanging out here working during the day and seeing friends in the evening. Doing it *right this minute*, in fact. :)