As promised

I told you I'd be giving Spirits in the Wires the deluxe treatment when I finished it, and guess what? I did. Here we go.

Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint was published in 2003 in hardback, reprinted in softback in 2004. It achieved at it's peak 32,513 in Books on Amazon's rankings. It remains in print. Reviews of the book tended to focus on the characters rather than plot or setting, despite both plot and setting being fantastical in nature. They also noted that the key market was people who followed the characters and in general the writing of de Lint. According to the author's web site, he has written 61 books including short story anthologies and notvels for adults and young readers, and of those at least eight have been set in Newford (the primary setting) and included some of the same characters. The author has commented that each of his stories are meant to be capable of standalone enjoyment, but that it might enhance the reader's pleasure if they were read in a certain order (found here). In general, reviews were positive, though one noted that repeated reading of de Lint might grate the reader as "slightly saccharine and hackneyed after the umpteenth happy ending, but longtime de Lint fans will be delighted." --Jhana Bach