Hank Ferragudo's Blog

Welp, it started snowing this week.

In my last post I said the 3rd book would be out by now, but, it ain't. That's probably my fault. Ok, that's all my fault. I'm kinda hard to work with, disorganized, temperamental, maybe somewhat smelly(?)...

I have good people working with me but they have other things to do, other irons in the fire. They told me to get my shit together and then we can move forward.

So, I'm on it. The 3rd book WILL happen.

2023, for realz, yo.

So... Burning Maple Press originally ear-marked Spring 2022 for the release of my (as yet un-named) 3rd book of poetry, but it has proven to be more work than anticipated, resulting in a slight delay. (*Note to self: going forward, don't write shit on so many tiny scraps of paper, Hank) I have been assured that the team is still on-board (though an additional editor may get thrown in the mix) and there will be a release within the next two seasons. Definitely before the snow flies...
Fingers-crossed...

Second book of poetry, NO GREAT SHAKES: Collected poems: 2015 - 2020, out today. Whoop-dee-doo...

NO GREAT SHAKES: Collected Poems 2015-2020 drops in 7 days (Dec.8), for better or worse...

My editor(s) have chained me to a laptop, with whips at the ready, seeing to it that I do my part to get the next volume of collected poetry (2015-2020) sorted for them to work on. The sooner I'm done, the sooner I get food or a bathroom break they tell me...

Welp, it's done.

My editor Coriander McCready put in a marathon formatting session this past weekend to get Spit Into The Wind Of All Love into an e-book form for all you kids who like to read on your new-fangled electronic devices.
(Thanks, Cori; she hates it when I call her that...)

It's FREE on Kindle Unlimited and only .99 cents ($1.24 Cdn) regular for the rest of August -- which is cheaper than a cup of coffee where I'm from, and probably won't stain your teeth the same.

So the good people at Burning Maple Press are working on an e-book version of Spit Into The Wind Of All Love

Hip-Hip-Hooray, as we used to say back in the day... (unintentionally rhymed there)

Anyways, it'll be done soon enough.