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...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
I got a lot of traffic on a post I did two weeks ago about new careers after 50. Since my own newest career is writing, I thought I’d follow-up by talking about this crazy idea of becoming an author at the wizened old age of 50 or (gasp!) even older. Kids these...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 23, 2019 | Blog, Your Write Turn |
I’m 59 and can’t hold a job. Or more accurately, I can’t stick with a career. Well, at least not like my Dad did. I mean, he really only had one. I’m on Number Nine. We subconsciously use our parents as our default yardstick with which to measure our lives. It must be...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog |
We Americans love rankings—sports standings, 12 Best Places for Hawaiian Poke. You name it, we rank it. Of course, these are the essential ingredients in clickbait, too. Let’s all fess up—no living human has ever been able to resist “15 Child Actors and What They’re...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 9, 2019 | Blog |
Although people have been writing about this for like a decade already, I just read an article about how our complete reliance on turn-by-turn GoogleMaps instructions is rotting our collective hippocampus. That’s a part of our brain that Does Many Important Things,...
by Jeffrey K. Walker | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog, Posts About My Novels |
If you’re interested in anything to do with Ireland—beyond drinking that repulsive dyed-green American beer on the 17th of March—you probably know that Ireland is smack in the middle of the centenary celebration of the endgame in the centuries-long struggle for Irish...
