by Jeffrey K. Walker | Oct 21, 2018 | Blog, Voices from the First World War |
You can read all my “Voices from the First World War” posts HERE. Over 100 years have passed since the guns fell silent in France, marking the end of the First World War. The Great War. The War to End All Wars. I’ve written historical fiction set in that... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Sep 2, 2018 | Blog |
[It being a three-day weekend and the official End of Summer, I’m reposting a blog I wrote awhile back. Hope you enjoy it and let me know in comments about your thoughts on Paper Things. Back next Sunday.] I love my Kindle. And I love my iPad even more. In... 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 | Oct 22, 2017 | Blog, Posts About My Novels |
I turned over my second book, Truly Are the Free, to the copy editor on Friday. That’s always a Highly Emotional Event, since it’s the moment one’s beautiful, finely crafted, and perfectly constructed literary stroke of genius gets turned into… a product. In the end,... by Jeffrey K. Walker | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog |
Yesterday was our local literary shindig, the annual Williamsburg Book Festival. This is held in conjunction with a much bigger cultural shindig called An Occasion for the Arts, which has become something of a juggernaut. Or at least a relative juggernaut, given that...