THE MAC LOGAN CERTIFICATION TO THRILL PRESENTS:
THE EXPENDABLE PI GETS IT'S VERY FIRST JIGSAW PUZZLE.
IT'S HALLOWEEN AND IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH. AND THINGS ARE JUST GETTING STARTED.
HALLO EVERYONE,
I hope this piece meets you in good spirits. I can't believe its almost December and the weather is becoming somewhat unbearable in my humble opinion. These days there are dark skies and it is dreary, wet and extremely cold and this gives an indication there is cold weather coming and that means winter is making its come back real soon. We are currently in Autumn. But, it sure does feel like we are in the winter season.
I went to meet a friend somewhere in Tottenham. I'm not going to mention names. She's a good woman and a brilliant children's author. She also writes books for adults too. Anyway, we met at a local eatery and guess what? After exchanging pleasantries she gave me a present wrapped in a brown envelope. It was a copy of my second mystery thriller SHADES OF FALCON: THE CROOKED DEAL VOL 2 but, now designed as a jigsaw puzzle. I just couldn't believe it!
I didn't know you could design a book cover as a jigsaw puzzle. Amazing! My friend's present was just a reminder these days anything is possible especially with the advent of artificial intelligence and technology.
I'm now working on my fourth manuscript. And I'll talk about that another time. However, I choose to digress a little bit in order to bring up a few things that happened at the Black History month celebrations.
Anyway, there were lessons to be learnt at the Black History month event I attended on the 31st of October 2025. And, one of them was always be prepared.
I was invited to do a short talk on my writing journey and self-publishing at my friend's BHM 2025 event which took place at the Angel Community Centre in Edmonton .
I wasn't really prepared to do anything because I had come to promote my work as a pop up artiste and enjoy the squalor of the occasion. But, there I was dragged along to do this talk which I thoroughly enjoyed because of the questions and the process.
There were three slots in this showcase. The first two slots were obviously jam packed with verve and information. A lesson in Black History took the first slot and then a Reggae choral group sang their hearts out because it was coincidentally Bob Marley Day. So, after all that I had to come up with an amazing plan to keep the audience agog with expectation again and it worked perfectly. Thanks to the host of the hour and my esteemed friend (whose name I will not mention).
The Quotes for this particular event were thus:
Franklin Thomas- 'one day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings'. AND
Michelle Obama-History has shown us courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.
All in all it was a very good event because I sold my books and promoted my work and I got to learn so much about my Black History. The audience who asked me questions got to learn what it took to be a self-published author in this day and age and walked away from the event with the ideal nature of the self-published author's unique work ethic.
STAY SAFE!
