If the sheer number of “Hours of Fireplace Sounds” videos on YouTube is any indication, there’s just something calming about a fire. (And the real-life ones are even better.) So
LITERARY EVENTS
Pikes Peak Writers Virtual Open Critique 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday. Registration required: pikespeak writers.com/ppw-events/open-critique.
Virtual Write Drunk; Edit Sober With Pikes Peak Writers, learn to write without letting your inner critic get in the way and then use critical analysis to continue to work, 6:30-9 p.m. May 12. Registration required: pikespeakwriters.com/ppw-events/may-2021-write-drunk-edit-sober.
Virtual Writer Night With Pikes Peak Writers, 6:30-8:30 p.m. May 24. Registration required: pikespeakwriters.com/ppw-events/april-2021-writers-night-2.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
Recent regional author offerings:
• “The Kingdom’s Sandcastle” by Luai Qubain. Published by Rare Bird Books. Summary: Based on true events that ensued in a Middle Eastern kingdom, Louie, a closeted young gay man, has been forcibly brought back from California because of a drug rumor. Just a few weeks after his regression back into the kingdom, his mother dies under suspic