The Book Blurb (edited version below)

I’m going to change my focus to making YouTube videos, but tech and I don’t really get along. In the last week alone, I tried to use my nice camera to film a video, only to discover the mic wasn’t working. I never could get it to work and ended up filming on my phone (I will post the video below, and maybe you will follow my channel). Then, I lost access to my book in Atticus and finally gave up because their customer support is too slow and reverted to a version lacking the latest edits I’d done Tuesday – Thursday. Thankfully, I had a recently exported file of the entire book. The program does up-to-the-minute backups, but I couldn’t get their backups to load. There is no doubt a way, or they would be useless. My patience, however, was wearing thin. Lastly, my phone couldn’t find my Verizon account or SIM card for hours yesterday. I still have no explanation for that. I hope there is nothing left that could happen. We’ll see when I try to film another video tomorrow.* That is my sob story of the hour. Btw, I will try to post every Sunday. I have the house to myself for a couple of hours Sunday mornings, so that is a good time to film.

Yes, this is titled “The Book Blurb.” Here it is:

PDex deliveryman isn’t on Hector Ruedas’ list of life plans. But he has to earn a living after losing his wife and plumbing business the day he caught her sleeping with his business partner. Now, his only goal is to plow through each shift without having to deliver to Roswell, New Mexico’s nastiest residences. When a notorious haunted house lands on his route, his survival mode is wrecked. The house was inherited by local widow, Arora Smart, who is desperate for help. Nobody else will make deliveries to her there, let alone fix the plumbing. Not that Hector wants to be the one…until the ghost tells him to. With the aid of this specter, Hector and Arora uncover the house’s sixty-year-old secrets. Being a detective isn’t on his list, either. Yet, here he is, a lifeline for a widow and her youngest son. As a grudging PDex delivery driver, he suddenly finds himself transporting something much bigger than packages: hope.

So, what do you think? Do you want to read it? I’m very excited about this book and the series I’m going to write. It feels like the one, if you know what I mean. I’ve always hated my characters after writing a book from their perspective; I still love these characters and will bring in new and interesting protags the next book: namely a young tech nerd who will work with the priest to find out who has hacked the church’s internet…and why. Because I’ve set a precedent, all the books will have to contain otherworldly elements, as well as murder.

My dopey first video:

And a video of Paulino Bernal playing his iconic polka. Paulino passed away in September a year ago. So, here’s to the memory of a great acordeonista:

*User error, where I published this then knocked it back to drafts. However, the dishwasher, washing machine, and robot vacuum all acted wonky today. The robot couldn’t find its home base, even when it had one foot on it. It said it was lost and proceeded to shut down. Then the washing machine ran an entire load without ever filling with water (it’s a side-loader that locks and then counts down the time). The dishwasher, on the other hand, just sounds like its motor is going out. That’s actually normal behavior — annoying, but normal. The rest is too weird for ordinary explanations.