Ups and Downs on Clovis Road

The downs - the independent publisher award went to "Dead Weight." The Lubbbock Avalanche Journal entertainment editor is not answering our emails for followup. Texas Monthly says we were "too late" submitting the book for consideration, it went to them the month it came out, February? The Dallas News saying they only consider books from large publishing houses. The ups - great comments and letters coming in from the hundreds of readers who have the book. The article in the Plainview Herald. The article in the Lamb County Leader. The outreach from the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech. The book is in two museums and three libraries. The blog has Judy as its first follower..... Actually the Clovis Road outside Littlefield is pretty flat and the furrows in the nearby fields were just deep enough to hide Dr. Hunt after he was shot. A year ago we were going through the mountain of material from Harold LaFont's files from Plainview. Saw that Mr. Lenro Keeton died about 1966. He was one of the people bound up by Jim Thomas.

Clovis Road - Self Published

In the Dallas Morning News May 23, 2010 it stated that in 2009 there were 764,448 self published books, like Clovis Road - Dr. Roy Hunt Murder 1942 - 1943, compared to 288,355 titles by publishing houses. The article by Virginia Heffernan titled "How the digital age is making self-publishing respectable" cites the data from Bowker bibliographic company. The number of self published books was up 181 percent from the previous year. Highgate Publishing LLC owns and distributes the Hunt murder story.

Purchase Clovis Road

Mineral Wells High School Class of 1962 friends have asked for details about how to purchase Clovis Road, the story of the Dr. Roy Hunt murder. The foreword is by Jerry Scott Hughes. Dedicated to Harold LaFont and Bill LaFont. Send your name and address to 6257 Highgate Lane, Dallas, Texas, 75214 and a check, cash, or money order for $30. The book is 184 pages, has 93000 words and 50 illustrations. It is hardback, first edition, and is its second printing. It is currently also available at Waymore's, the Waylon Jennings Museum and store, in Littlefield, Texas and at Amazon.com.

May Update

We submitted a pitch to the Ira Glass NPR radio show and another to the Amarillo Globe newspaper for a story. The 12th of May was Mr. Bill LaFont's birthday. Several of my high school classmates, Mineral Wells High School Class of 1962, have ordered the book this weekend.