by Jeffrey K. Walker | May 20, 2018 | Blog |
I’m writing this in a white-hot rage just a few hours after the twenty-second fatal school shooting so far this year, this time outside Houston at Santa Fe High School. We have now had more high school students killed with assault rifles in 2018 than we have had...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | May 13, 2018 | Blog |
I heard recently that my novel Truly Are the Free was named a Discovered Diamond. This is kind of a big deal in historical fiction, so I was feeling rather puffed up. Then I remembered how I felt last August, watching the solar eclipse in Charleston. Tiny. Really,...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | May 6, 2018 | Blog |
[The first time I played verbal baseball catch with fellow historical fiction writer Wayne Turmel, I got more than triple my usual number of page views. So I thought we’d toss the ball around again, this time on character and setting in historical fiction.] So...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Apr 29, 2018 | Blog |
[I’m off to San Francisco for my grandson Goober’s birthday and to let him run me ragged for a week, so I’m dusting off an earlier post. I haven’t seen this one in quite some time–there’s some good stuff in here, promise. Back with...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Apr 22, 2018 | Blog |
True story. One of the salient things that initially attracted me to my wife was… The Three Stooges. At the risk of serious gender stereotyping, let me just say that 99.999% of all Late Baby Boomer-aged girls/women I have ever met, spoken with, attempted to date, or...
