by Jeffrey K. Walker | Sep 15, 2019 | Blog |
Last Wednesday was the anniversary of 9/11. I hadn’t really thought much about my own experience on 9/11 over the preceding 17 anniversaries, but my wife Kay-Kay asked me to give her a blurb on my memories of that day to post to my author webpage. The overwhelming...
by Kathy Walker | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog |
No Hero’s Welcome, the final volume in my Sweet Wine of Youth trilogy, came out yesterday. Pretty exciting stuff. Unfortunately, I’m busy with some not-so-exciting stuff, so I’m republishing a blog post that proved quite popular, just in time for the...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Sep 1, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
My new novel, No Hero’s Welcome, launches this week. That makes three books I’ve self-published, so time to share with other aspiring self-publishers. Trust me, I’ve made mistakes for you… and plenty of them. (For those of you pursuing the traditional or indie...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog, Tales of Skeeterville |
While Kay-Kay and I were in California last week visiting the grandkids, I drove by my four-year-old grandson Goober’s putative future high school. The football team was out on the field for a partial-pads scrimmage. And there is no sure sign of the school year...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 18, 2019 | Blog |
The third volume in my First World War and 1920s historical fiction trilogy, No Hero’s Welcome, comes out in a few weeks. This book, set almost entirely in Ireland from the Easter Rising in 1916 through the end of the Civil War in 1923, completes the story of...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog |
I spent a lot of time in China on business. By business, I mean spending a lot of time at law schools convincing deans to sign partnership agreements and students to spend a lot of money studying at the law school I worked for in New York City. And I mean a lot of...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
Yep, the book publishing world has been turned upside down. There are few markets that were earlier or more thoroughly disrupted than publishing. Well, maybe music. The gatekeepers of yesteryear just aren’t keeping the gates much anymore. The Big Five publishers used...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 28, 2019 | Blog, Posts About My Novels |
One of the guilty pleasures for any historical novelist is having a grown-up reason to wallow around in research about wherever and whenever you choose. In my case, the self-indulgence may rise to the level of mortal sin. Having long been a semi-professional Irishman,...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 21, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
In the first two posts of my series, Your Write Turn, I tried to convince you that you can pursue any number of new career choices after the age of 50—including becoming a writer—and I gave you a personal inventory to run through in determining what you bring by way...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 14, 2019 | Blog, Flying in the BUFF |
[You can read other installments of my “Flying in the BUFF” posts HERE!] This is the 126th blog I’ve posted since January of 2017—which amounts to 175,000 words. That’s almost two novels. Which I probably should have been writing instead of posts about Toilets...
