Bookcast Episode 131: So the Smoke Detectors Work....

I’m back after skipping last week because sometimes I just don’t feel like dragging myself down the hall to record. This is a chill catch-up episode covering what I’ve been reading, what I’m watching, and the candle mishap that nearly got the fire department called to my house.

Reading Update

I’m at 145 books for the year and one book ahead of schedule. I’ve read six books in November so far. I’ve wound down writing for the year, which means I’m reading a lot. This is the first Nonfiction November I’m actually enjoying because I leaned into what I find interesting: mess and murder. If it’s a scandal, I’m all up in it. If somebody died, I want to know about it. Cults are my jam.

Read:

• A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton (creative nonfiction that read like a mystery novel - riveting, really well done, 10-hour audiobook)
• Black, White, Colored: Hidden Story of an Insurrection, A Family, A Southern Town and Identity in America (interesting but very dry)
• A Better Ending: A Brother’s 30-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister’s Death by Thomas James Whitfield (pretty good, very personal story about his sister’s supposed suicide and her police officer husband)
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes - explained it like I’m five, very soapy and gossipy, would read again)
• Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Sick (just finished yesterday - good and interesting but a lot of “water is wet” facts, hard to read, made me angry)

Reading:

• The Ruination of Michael Sterling by Tasha L. Harrison-- part of her Bone Marrow Creek series - a journalist investigating disappearances in Marrowbone Creek including his sister, involves the Fellowship of the Everlasting Lights Strawberry Moon Gathering, 100% my catnip.
• Photograph by Brian Freeman

What I’ve Been Watching

Landman Season 2 is up! I got way too excited about it earlier and decided to use it as a wind down/reward.

• Tracker
• Watson (better this season, Morris Chestnut has his shirt off in like half of every episode)
• Sheriff Country (new show I’m enjoying)
• Living Single podcast: Queen Latifah was on this week’s episode - I’ve watched it three times, I love Dana Owens)

Writing and Publishing Updates

I’m done writing for the year, but not done editing.

New:

• Decorative Gourd Season released November 3rd - a holiday short about pickleball team captains from opposing teams, rivalry turns sexy in 15,000 words

Coming Soon:

• Layover: an Only One Bed holiday novella, releasing early December.  

Full show notes at Booksbydlwhite.com/bookcast/131

Transcript

DL White [00:00:00]:
Well, hello book pals and welcome back. I am so delighted that you are here and I am happy to be here with you. Here being the podcast, the bookcast that I occasionally run. This is episode 131 of the book Cast, my platform for sharing short fiction and updates on life as a self published author of Black Romantic and other fiction. By this point, we're writing other fiction. I am DL White. I am your host and as I have already said, I'm happy to be here. It's been why skip last week? Because while I do like the sound of my voice, I occasionally don't have anything useful enough to drag myself down the hall into the closet it and plug up the old computer and microphone to record an episode.

DL White [00:01:07]:
So sometimes, you know, I'm just hanging out and I'm like, you know, I don't, I don't feel like getting up so I'm not going to and I don't. But I am here. It does mean for a packed catch up episode. And I don't think today's episode will really be packed, as it were. I thought we could just chat it out because we are heading to the down ish point of the year. I have wound down a whole lot. Well, I've wound down writing. I'm done writing for the year I have decided, which means I'm reading a lot.

DL White [00:01:42]:
And fourth quarter at work is a monster. So it's basically two months of work in it's basically three months of work in two months. Because most of us take a lot of December off. At least the higher ups take a lot of December off. And so all of our meetings and such have to be pretty much done in like the first week, week and a half of December. So it is crunch time right now. It's also 2026. Not planning, but routines time.

DL White [00:02:12]:
All that planning has been done, but the person that schedules the routines, all of the prep meetings, all of the internal and external and debrief and content review meetings, you're looking at her. So I spend my days basically in canvas mode looking for times when very important people have mutually free and so not only within our organization, but also our external partners. So I'm very busy in Q4 a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of meetings. I have to schedule like over 100 meetings. I have to schedule for 2026. And the good news is I'm almost done. So that's fantastic. I have that big multi day meeting.

DL White [00:03:06]:
The big meetings are scheduled, but the supporting meetings, the two internal meetings, the external meeting the debrief meetings, those all have to be scheduled, but the dates are mapped out. I just need them to match with my chair and co chair schedules. Isn't this riveting? This is wildly exciting, but, like, nobody else understands. Nobody cares. So I'm talking to me right now. So I have those I'm working on, and I have proposed dates out, and people just need to bless them so I can schedule them. And then I have, like, have one smaller monthly meeting that is out there. I have some dates that don't.

DL White [00:03:49]:
I don't have a quorum for the dates I proposed, so I have to propose alternate dates. And so that's my life right now. Aside from everything else I do. I am. I don't know if any of you have ever watched Futurama. It's one of my favorite adult, not. Not adult, like, adult cartoons. But Futurama is an adult cartoon, and it's not for children.

DL White [00:04:18]:
It's. It's a cartoon set in, like, the year 3000 from, like, the late 2000s. And there's a character they call Jor? El, Master of scheduling. He does all of the Planet Express scheduling. I don't know. I'm not making any sense. If you watch Futurama, you know, Jor? El, Master of scheduling. That is me.

DL White [00:04:40]:
That's what I call myself. So people are like, hey, Dom, what are you doing Master of scheduling today? What's up? So that's work. And when work gets really busy, everything else kind of just falls away because there's no such thing as work life balance. It's work or it's life. So I don't know what to tell y'. All. It doesn't. The myth of work, life balance is that it's work or it is life.

DL White [00:05:06]:
And right now, it is work. So I decided I was going to name this episode so the Smoke Detectors Work. Because I need to talk about my little mishap with candles this week. So y' all know about a new house? I'm very happy with it, even though Amazon can't read addresses. And they dropped some of my stuff at the house across the street. And I had to, like, tiptoe over there and, like, ring their doorbell and be like, hey, I'm going to retrieve my packages. Don't call up police. Okay? So house is awesome.

DL White [00:05:36]:
And I have bought some decorative, some decor that I'll talk about a smidge later. I have these candles that I bought. I love candles. I love to burn candles. I burn them winter, spring, summer, fall, but mostly in the winter. Because I like, like a co atmosphere. And I normally only will burn a wood wick candle. It's a, you know, it's a candle that the wick is wood instead of soy or string or whatever it is they put in there.

DL White [00:06:12]:
I will burn a string candle depending on the candle company. If you gift me a candle and it's only string, I will burn it. But I buy myself wood wick candles. So I have this candle I bought that burns really hot and like very smoky and it's several months old and I forgot about that part. And I normally only burn it for a little while just for, like, some ambiance and to put, like a scent in the air. It's like a very hearty, vanilla musk scent that I love. So the other day I'm like, oh, I'm gonna light some candles. It's kind of like dark and moody outside.

DL White [00:06:48]:
I light some candles and I'm gonna read. So I'm kicking back and my candle's going, and I'm like, you know, listening to an audiobook and playing a game on my phone. And it's just like a cozy, like, relaxing day. It's the day that I always dreamt about when I thought about what life was going to be like when I bought my house. And it's just lovely. And then beep, beep, beep. My smoke detectors start going off and I'm like, oh, crap, I have forgot about that candle. And it was burning.

DL White [00:07:22]:
Friends burning. And it was smoking. And of course, of course it's burning right by the smoke detector. So I hop up, blow out the candle, and I open the door and I start, like, waving the door so that it clears the smoke and the smoke detector stops. The thing is that my alarm system is wired to the fire department. And so I don't know, like, when the smoke detectors go off, does it call the fire department? And like, how? I don't. Honestly, I don't even know how it works. It just.

DL White [00:07:52]:
It was. I bought it that way. The house comes with the system. And so, like, I suppose I should know that stuff, but I think I have to, like, actually pull up the app or go to the display and, like, press the fire button. But I was so scared that the fire department was going to show up at my house. And you get charged if it's a false call. So I like, I pull up the app and I look and I see if it's like, detecting anything. Is it making any calls? Is it sending the fire department? I go downstairs to the display and I look at it and, like, nothing's activated.

DL White [00:08:23]:
Nobody's been called. Nobody's. Nobody's coming to the house. So I haven't burned a candle since then. That was a few days ago. No more candles for me. We're. We're done.

DL White [00:08:35]:
That. That candle's done. So I'm going to go ahead and like, dispose of it. It's almost done, actually. It was kind of like at the end where it's all just like, you know, wax and handle. And because it's a wood wick, it's going to burn every bit of wood until it's done. And just. It just happens to be a particularly smoky candle, so.

DL White [00:08:59]:
Phew. So that. That was fun. Speaking of the house, it is. We're nearing up on the holiday season. It is not yet Thanksgiving, and so I have not decorated yet, but I am. I'm getting ready to decorate. So I did, you know, just buy a house and I.

DL White [00:09:16]:
I was previously renting a room and I was not much of a person that decorated for the holidays. And my roommate, my housemate, would spend Christmas in Nigeria traditionally, and so she wasn't ever home either. It's only like the last couple of years that she would even get a tree. And my boss buys her staff a wreath every year. And so we. The last two years, we've got a reef to put on the front door. But we're not. We weren't really big into decorating the house for the holidays.

DL White [00:09:45]:
So since I have my own house and the neighborhood seems to be like, you know, all festive, like, a few people have their, you know, know, fall stuff up. I got like a really pretty fall wreath on my door right now. I thought, you know, it's been probably 30 years since I decorated for Christmas because I got rid of all of my stuff when I left my hometown and I drove to Atlanta in 23,003. I moved to Atlanta in oh3. I got rid of everything except what could fit in my car. And I drove down here in three days. So I started to get really excited about getting Christmas decorations and decorating my house. Now, do I have living room furniture? No.

DL White [00:10:31]:
I don't have a carpet. I don't have furniture. I don't have tv. I don't have a TV stand. I don't have anything. But what I will be having is a tree in my living room. So I have a bunch of stuff I need to, like, scooch down so that there's room for the tree. And I'm very.

DL White [00:10:48]:
I'm very excited about this. So I wasn't expecting my tree to show up until next week. I got like an eight foot tree, so. And it looks pretty full from the website I ordered it from, so we'll see. And I wasn't expecting it. It said it wasn't going to ship until like the 19th, but it showed up today. Yay. So, so I have that, I have these little things that you put on when you have like bar stool, chairs, you know, a little like decorations.

DL White [00:11:18]:
Not decorations, but seat covers that you put on your chair. So I have a set of those that look really cute. And then I got decorations, you know, ornaments and beads and lights. I don't like the traditional bulb Christmas lights. I like this little round pearl lights. And so I found some really pretty ones. So my, my, my house is pretty much like browns, rusts, oranges, reds, little pop of yellow here and there. Just like not spring bright, but not millennial gray by any stretch of the imagination.

DL White [00:12:00]:
Like my flooring is gray. And because my cabinets are very neutral and my walls are neutral, I wanted the decor to pop against that. And so I wanted my decorations to kind of flow with that. So I went with golds, creams, white, silver with everything. So all my tree decorations are, are, are sort of that theme. And I got a little something to go along the, the banister on my stairwell and so we'll see how it turns out. And I got these snowflake decal things to put on my windows and I'll put some lights around the windows and all that. So I'm very excited.

DL White [00:12:45]:
I'm gonna start decorating. Probably the weekend thing, Thanksgiving weekend. I think I want my, I want my wreath to be here because when I put up my wreath, I can also put up my little holiday rug that I got. And that also showed up today. So once I start, once I change over the outside of the house, then I will start doing the inside of the house. And so I'm super excited about, about that. The house has become my personality. So still absolutely love it.

DL White [00:13:18]:
It's, you know, it's nice, just nice to have my own space. I have filled an entire house with what used to be in my bedroom in my old house. So that's what's really funny. So all of that is out of the way. I just wanted to like do a little catch up with, you know, personal stuff going on. My ankle still hurts, but it's not too painful. It's just, it's very slowly healing. I mostly try to spend the weekend off of the ankle.

DL White [00:13:53]:
It's just kind of achy right now. And, you know, going up the stairs is fine. Going down the stairs is difficult. Something about the way my leg bends. It's still very sore there. The ligament is still not happy with me. So that's what's going on with that. Reading wise.

DL White [00:14:14]:
I'm having a ball. It's November. It's nonfiction November. And I will say this is probably the first nonfiction November that I'm truly enjoying what I picked out to read. And I feel like in previous November's I have allowed myself to be swayed by people saying what people should be reading for nonfiction. Like, it's always like, you know, self help or some history or like, somebody's biography. And I don't begrudge anybody who's interested in anything like that. But that's just not my.

DL White [00:14:47]:
That's just. That's just not my bag. I will. Like, I loved. I. People say a lot of stuff about this, but I loved Barack Obama's biography. His. What's it called? I forget.

DL White [00:15:04]:
I'm not looking it up, but, like, the big tome thing. And he's working on volume two. I. I loved it. I listened to all 18 hours of it. I loved that glorious voice in my ear for two work days. It was just the best. But, like, I'm not.

DL White [00:15:22]:
I'm not gonna. I'm not really interested in, like, presidential biographies as, you know, as, like, what I'm doing with my Saturday night. You know, I'll read the occasional memoir here and there, but, like, you know, after a certain point, I get bored, and then I. I hate myself. But this year, I really leaned into what I find interesting. Mess and murder. If it's a scandal, I'm all up in it. And if it's like somebody died, I want to know about it.

DL White [00:15:59]:
If it's a cult, that's my. That's my jam. So I kind of really leaned into that. And so I actually really enjoyed the books I've been reading this year. The first one I read was A Devil Go Down, Devil Went down to Georgia, Race, Power, Privilege, and the murder of Lita McClinton. It was really fantastic. It was really, really well done. It was.

DL White [00:16:25]:
It's like creative nonfiction, so it read like a mystery novel, like an investigation novel, I think. I don't. I. I don't know if it was like. Like an investigatory novel, but I. It wasn't a novel. It's a nonfiction. It's definitely a story, but it's about the murder of a woman that was murdered in Atlanta.

DL White [00:16:50]:
And it was just so good. So well done. So well done, in fact that I have compared every other book I have read this month to that book, which isn't fair. But like, come on, it was really, it was really good. It was riveting. It held my attention. I think it was like a 10 hour long audiobook. So well done.

DL White [00:17:07]:
And then I moved on to Black, White Colored Hidden History of Insurrection. No, I want. Did I read that one? Yeah. Black, White Colored Hidden Story of an Insurrection, A Family, A Southern Town and Identity in America, which was super dry. It was very, very dry. Like interesting, but dry. I just kind of. I was like, okay, this is, this is interesting, you know, but yeah, no, that's not one I would reread.

DL White [00:17:41]:
Like I have read they Were her property probably two or three times by now. I would not reread that book. And then I read a better ending. A brother's 30 year quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister's Death by Thomas James Whitfield. His sister supposedly, quote, unquote, committed suicide. And this was basically him dealing with his sister's death and also trying to figure out what actually happened because her husband at the time was a police officer. And so everybody pretty much like, you know, joined ranks around him and it's just him really trying to bust through that blue line and figure out what actually happened to his sister. It was pretty good.

DL White [00:18:32]:
Not as good as A Devil Went down to Georgia, but pretty good. Very personal. And then I listened to Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. This was really good. This was actually about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. It like got kind of into the nitty gritty about like, who was working there and what role they played and how this scandal kind of rolled out amongst all of the people that worked there and the people that were involved. And wow, I feel like I never, like, I've listened to documentaries on Theranos and didn't really understand what was happening. This book took me there.

DL White [00:19:15]:
Like sometimes I need you to explain it to me like I'm five. This book explained it to me like I'm five. Very well done. I really, really enjoyed this. This is probably one I would read again because it was, it was very soapy and gossipy and, you know, I love me some mess. And so, so I, yeah, that was, that was, that was really well done. And then I yesterday finished Systemic How Racism Is Making Us Sick. And this was like, good, interesting, but also, okay, A lot of Water is wet type of Stuff like if you need backup to know that black women die and giving birth more than any other race, like, this is the book that's going to back you up with those kinds of facts.

DL White [00:20:05]:
And, you know, medical racism is rampant, and it's a dangerous thing, and it is killing us. But this is one of those that's hard for me to read. I could not get through medical apartheid. It was just rough. I. Just rough. And so I knew I was going to be angry after listening to that. And so I pulled up a couple of fiction books to read.

DL White [00:20:30]:
So I'm currently reading the Ruination of Michael Sterling by the Tasha L. Harrison. This is part of her Bone Marrow Creek series, which is a little bit. I don't want to say paranormal. I forget how she describes it, but it's a little bit out of my realm for, like, what I like to read. But also I love Tasha's writing, and so I'm. I'm getting as much as I can from it. It sounds like a really interesting story.

DL White [00:21:03]:
Like, there's something, like, personal and investigative involved in this particular story. It's kind of like. It's kind of. I don't want to say witchy. I'm just trying to get an idea of what this is. Journalist Michael Sterling has been investigating the disappearances plaguing Marrowbone Creek, including his sister Denise, who vanished while volunteering in the mountains. When people are hospitalized after a mysterious incident at the Fellowship of the Everlasting Lights Strawberry Moon Gathering. Mm.

DL White [00:21:41]:
Mm. Michael knows he's finally close to breaking the story. But in a town built on secrets, where reality bends to whoever tells the prettiest lies, Michael is about to learn that some offers are too good to be true. And some women know exactly what you want to hear. So this is 100% my catnip. It is right up my alley. And so I just started it. I'm hardly, hardly into it.

DL White [00:22:04]:
A couple chapters in, so I've got that going. And then I was just, like, dinking around on Audible when I accidentally borrowed this. Not accidentally, but I enjoy Brian Freeman when he's not writing a. When he's not writing a Jason Bourne book, because I don't read Jason Bourne books. But he had a new book that came out in October that looked really good about a private investigator that's looking into a woman who wants to find out who she is. So excited about that. So those are the two books I have going. I am six books into the year, and I'm one book ahead, I think I said so I'M sitting very pretty right now.

DL White [00:22:52]:
Doing a lot of reading right now. Like I said, I'm done writing for the year. I'm not done editing for the year. I have. I put out decorative board season at the end of October, beginning of November, I think I put it out like November 3rd. It is just like a little fun thing. I like to have something seasonal and sappy and steamy to put out. It is like, it's a very light touch.

DL White [00:23:18]:
So I put that out. I am not really looking at sales of it because I don't care. Like, I just want it to be out. I think it's a great addition to the holiday shorts. That one is a little rivalry turns sexy type thing. And I feel like everybody's into pickleball. And it just sounded like a fun thing to write about. And so I wrote about two of two, like pickleball cap team captains from like opposing teams.

DL White [00:23:50]:
And earlier in the summer, one beat the other and. And then one stole the prized booth from the harvest festival and the other will play them for it. And so it's a little. A little tete a tete. I love, you know, a little competition, opening the door because it's hot in here. So that is out. I'm pleased with how it turned out. It.

DL White [00:24:22]:
I'm not really concentrating on it because it is like a little 15,000 word short. It's five chapters. You know, I like it and you know, this year I decided what I have to do to keep myself from doom scrolling and watching the news and worrying about the future of whatever is happening is just, I just have to start writing and if I finish it, it's going up. So that is how that goes. So I have one more coming. Layover is the holiday short that I planned to write. Decorative board season just happened. Like somebody I was listening to the Smart Bitches podcast and Sarah, the host, said something about decorative board season and it just started writing itself in my head.

DL White [00:25:11]:
And so I was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna do a little like harvest novella light, light touch thing. And so that's out. And layover is what is coming in probably late November, early December. I'm probably gonna aim for early December. That still needs to be edited. I've like kind of tiptoed through it a little. I just, I need a little bit of a break from it. I've been staring at it for over a month.

DL White [00:25:40]:
I'm just gonna let it sit and I'm gonna spend probably my Thanksgiving break just giving it a real good battering and you know, juice it up some and just make sure it looks. It reads exactly how I want it to read. Because these are books that I promote every year during the holiday season. I have a lot of holiday shorts. A lot of holiday shorts. And so probably not going to do audio on either of these. They're very short. I don't know.

DL White [00:26:13]:
We'll see. We'll see how I feel. I may be bored during my December break and I decide to toss those up. So no writing. But I do need to edit that story. And that's pretty much all that's happening around here. Lots of, you know, stuff going on, the interwebs that I really try to stay out of right now on threads, they're arguing. They're arguing black women's hair because Michelle Obama basically just said she got tired of, you know, making her hair acceptable for white people.

DL White [00:26:47]:
And then some younger black people are like, we don't. That's not why we do our hair. And older black women are like, sit down. Let me just tell you about how I almost got fired for having dreads or locks. So there's a lot of that happening. There's a lot of, you know, people still tagging authors in negative or. I don't say negative reviews. I will say unfavorable reviews.

DL White [00:27:09]:
I think, you know, readers have every right to not like a book of mine, but once you tag me in, I'm in that piece. So I feel like it's at a point where readers want to talk smack about books in front of authors, knowing full well we can't respond. And so, like, if that's your thing, like, create your spaces where authors aren't. But turning every online space into a reader space where authors shouldn't be responding pushes authors into a corner. And, like, we can't. We can't talk about anything. We can't respond about anything. And, like, authors are never allowed to speak about these criticisms of their books.

DL White [00:27:59]:
You know, take it to your group chat. You need to have a group chat. Well, you need to have a group chat. I'm on threads. Like, what are you doing? Like, I was just sitting here minding, you know, my God dang business. And then I got tagged in a I can't stand this book, it's trash, this author sucks type thing. And, like, did you come to my house and scream this into my mail slot? And are you on my property? Did. Did you land on Plymouth Rock? Like, did I land on Plymouth Rock? Or did Plymouth Rock land on me? Did I come looking for you? Or did you come to me because if you tag me, I'm in that piece.

DL White [00:28:39]:
I'm just, I'm just saying, that's why we keep saying, quit tagging us, because very rarely are we looking for us. But if it pops up, you know, like, I'm here, like, you know, anyway. Discourse, discourse, lots of that going on. I kind of am not offering an opinion on that, except for like that little five minute rant, because I don't have the energy for that. I just don't have the energy for all of that. Good luck to y'. All. Have a ball.

DL White [00:29:13]:
I ain't got it. So it's like every day they wake up and decide what they're gonna be mad about. And that's kind of what Twitter used to be like. And so Threads. Threads is the new Twitter. So it's like, it can be fun. There's a lot of book conversation going on over there, certainly more than what's happening at Blue Sky. Blue sky is very mute.

DL White [00:29:35]:
And there's not an algorithm, so it's not feeding you all the types of stuff that you want to see. And so people just stop posting because they feel like they're not being seen. Blue sky is only going to work if you're. If you and your whole gang come over and start posting, then it starts feeding you, you know, the stuff that you're looking at and replying to. But, like, you can't just be like one person shouting into the ether. So anyway, all of that is happening. I'm kind of ignoring it. I pop on, I crack 17 jokes, I look at cat videos, I laugh at stuff, I post about my books, and I dip out, I go do something else.

DL White [00:30:21]:
So, you know, once a spot becomes not fun anymore, I'm out a la X, Twitter not there. So it also means I. I'm not up on like, whatever the latest thing is. And that actually makes me quite happy. I figure I'll. I'll learn about it soon enough. And so, you know, that's when I need to figure it out. And that, that's fine because I will develop an ulcer.

DL White [00:30:53]:
So that's pretty much all I have for this week. It was a. It's a. It's a chill check in. Just a little catch up on everything going on in my life. In the books, out of my books, in the writing cave, in the editing cave, in the podcasting cave. All's good over here. I'm generally happy.

DL White [00:31:19]:
So I am, phew, I'm super excited about Landman. It's a series set in Texas about the oil industry. Billy Bob Thornton is in it. Demi Moore is in it. Jon Hamm was in the last season. But don't quote me on this. It's kind of a spoiler, but I don't think his character is in this season for reasons. But I have been so looking forward to this show coming back and I saw that the season two is streaming right now on Paramount and I got overly excited.

DL White [00:31:57]:
So I was like, you know what you're gonna do? You're gonna use it as a reward after you have posted your pod. So I had to get in here and get my podcast done. But here we are at the end of the episode. So I'm gonna warm up some dinner and prepare my little drink my juice and Sprite zero and settle in for an evening of watching Landman. I'm gonna try not to binge the entire season two tonight. I'm gonna try to stretch it out. Other stuff that I'm watching Tracker is back. I feel like Watson is better this season.

DL White [00:32:40]:
They must have told Morris Chestnut to have his shirt off in every episode this season because mans don't ever have a shirt on throughout like half of the episode. Which is fine. Which is fine. Also started watching Sheriff country, which is also on cbs. So I feel like CBS is really coming with the good anti shows and I'm okay with that considering they canceled my favorite equalizer. Speaking of Equalizer, Queen Latifah was on this week's episode of the Reliving Single podcast. I have watched it three times. I've watched it three times.

DL White [00:33:17]:
I love her. I love me some Dana Owens. Someday I'm gonna be able to meet her. I just. I just love her. Anyhow, that's it for me. I'm hungry so I'm gonna warm up some dinner and sit down for my show and edit this podcast. I am truly, truly exc excited that you have dedicated this amount of time to listen to me ramble about things.

DL White [00:33:41]:
Thank you so much for being here. Be sure to check for show notes booksbydlwhite.com bookcast131 full show notes, links, etc and a transcript will be up there. It will also be up at my substack authordlfwhite.substack.com One thing I forgot to mention that the Black Readers Appreciation Week was last week and y' all blew it out. I. I got like, I don't know, I guess 1200 downloads of free books and for the first year ever we did also free audiobooks and so that was really fun. So thanks to everybody who joined up who might be listening for the first time because you found my books in the event, I hope you enjoyed them. And if you did enjoy them, don't forget to shout out a good word at your favorite retail site or a Goodreads storygraph fable. What have you.

DL White [00:34:43]:
Keep spreading the word about books by D.L. white. That is going to be it for me. Thank you so much for joining me. Booksbydlwhite.com link in bio is where you can find all the important links and announcements and you'll also find a link to the book Cast, my substack, my book purchasing site, all that good stuff. That's where you'll find that. There you have yourself a pleasant week. You hear me? Find a good book, put it into your face.

DL White [00:35:11]:
Stop doom scrolling, stop watching the news. You'll figure out what you need to know eventually. That's my philosophy on life. Thank you so much. Have a superlative week and even better weekend. We will talk to you next week.