Welcome to the new jeffhaws.com! Hope you’re liking what you see so far. It’s a pretty big change from the old site, for those of you who enjoyed wandering around there. This layout should give you a much better visual experience than the previous one, and this site should also be more secure. Gone is the “Just Write Somehow” header (which I thought was more to the point when I was working toward getting a book out than it is now that I have one … and will soon have another), and the focus is more on my published work.
I’d love to hear any feedback on the site. Or anything else, really. This place is a living, breathing, ever-evolving site. If you like something, or don’t like something, let me know. Take a look around. Make yourself at home.
In the meantime, I’m getting ready to release my first novella, a Twilight-Zone-esque story called “Tomorrow’s News Today.” Here’s a quick synopsis of what it’s about:
Walter’s life is a mess. His wife barely speaks to him and only keeps him around to help raise their son. There’s a line of young, cheap reporters waiting to take his newspaper job from him, and the grizzled editor seems to have it in for him. But when he suddenly discovers by accident that anything he writes will come true, he has visions of turning his life around — both at work and home.
The plan is to have it released on Amazon Kindle only around the middle of October. For those of you who don’t know, a novella is, as the name might suggest, a short novel. For those of you who read “Killing the Immortals,” this book is less than half as long as that. So, it’ll be a quick read that I think you’ll enjoy. Here is the cover:
I actually put this cover together myself with Canva, experimenting with some images and options until I came up with this. The funny thing is, I was just doing this more in theory than reality. I thought, “I wonder what I could come up with as a provisional cover using Canva.” Afterward, I emailed my awesome cover designer from the first book and got her quote for this job. Then, just to amuse her, I sent her this. She replied that she loved it, and I should use it. I thought she might be kidding — She wasn’t. And if she thinks it’ll work well, I trust her pretty much implicitly. There ya go.
When it releases, it’ll be $2.99, or free if you have Kindle Unlimited. And, when I do, I’m going to raise the price of “Killing the Immortals” to $3.99. Eventually, it’ll probably settle in at $4.99, but I’m not quite there yet.
That’s all for now. I’ll have more — much more — coming soon.
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