Odds & Ends

Today’s post is a bit of a salmagundi. A collection of diverse snippets. A smorgasbord of thoughts. Enjoy!

Eulogy in Black and White

If you haven’t already pre-ordered your copy, do so. Eulogy in Black and White by Caleb Pirtle III is a terrific read. Perhaps the best I’ve read so far this year. Get it on Amazon.

Podcast Appearance

Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 18th, at 1pm CT, I’ll be on the BookWorld podcast with authors CJ Peterson and Michael Scott Clifton. We’ll be talking about mysteries. Here’s the link to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bookworldtge/

 

And here’s the link to CJ’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZXLhhlqpThV7dV7uNSlXw/featured

Going Wide

In preparation to my eventual leaving of the Amazon ecosystem, all of my books will be out of Kindle Unlimited by the end of June. Most of them already are.

I’ll be uploading the books to Draft2Digital for distribution to a host of vendors and eventually to the Smashwords store.

The first book I’ve uploaded to D2D is Festival of Death. I’ve done a minor text cleanup, and reformatted the book using Atticus. Here’s the new Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/mYaJPm

The Justinia Wright Private Investigator Omnibus is also live at a variety of sites. Here’s the Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/mdN55w

The Mind Game

Have you ever visited Great Sand Dunes National Park? If not, you really need to go. It is so very neat.

Here’s a pic from the park’s website:

Back in the 1960s when I was in Junior High, my parents, brother, and I visited the park on our way to Wyoming.

The day was hot, and my parents weren’t feeling well. However, my brother and I were going to climb the highest dune and promptly set off.

Unfortunately, halfway to the top, my parents called us back. They were afraid they wouldn’t be able to rescue us should something happen. Never mind, there were probably at least a hundred other people in our area climbing the dunes. Plenty of people to conduct a rescue, should one be needed.

A few years ago, my brother went back and climbed that highest dune. Good for him.

I probably never will make it back. But I don’t really need to. Because I see myself standing on top of that dune, waving to everyone below. And it feels really good.

Comments are always welcome. And until next time, happy reading!

CW Hawes is a playwright, award-winning poet, and a fictioneer, with a bestselling novel. He’s also an armchair philosopher, political theorist, social commentator, and traveler. He loves a good cup of tea and agrees that everything’s better with pizza.

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