Jeffrey K. Walker's Blog, page 12

Your Write Turn: Writerly Hygiene

Let’s face it. After a certain age, we aren’t good sprint runners anymore. It’s OK. You can admit it. Hips and knees have limited tread life. Same thing for all those parts used for writing. I’ve blogged about various parts of the writing process – getting started, beating back self-doubt, making the choice between traditional […]

Small Town Politics

I come from a long line of local politicians. Great Uncle Moe was the Treasurer of LaValliere County for a couple of decades, from which he managed to keep a wife and two mistresses in comfort. His big brother, Great Uncle Louie, was mayor of the county seat of Ojibwa just long enough to get […]

Lawyers and Other Invertebrates

I know every lawyer joke ever devised. Really, I do. What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A darn good start… This may be because I’ve graduated from two law schools and taught at another three, meaning I have paid or been paid by fully 2.5% of all the law […]

Groovin’ on Bob Marley’s House

This week, I’m going to add to your bucket list. I’ll give you a minute to fetch pencil and paper. Now write this down — 56 Hope Road, Kingston, Jamaica. That, my friends, is the address of Robert Nesta Marley. I’ve been there three times. Because once is decidedly not enough. How did this […]

My 9/11

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 response from social media posts to that […]

On the Joys and Sorrows of Being a Cubs Fan

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 National League pennant race. Go Cubs! Thursday, 3rd of November 2016 I’m writing this […]

Your Write Turn: Pushing Baby Out of the Nest

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 publisher route, not much of this applies to you, but my other […]

Homecoming Floats

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 starting up again than 60 teenage boys forced to cut […]

The Wages of Violence

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 characters introduced in my first two novels, […]

In China, Chinese Food Is Called “Food”

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 money. […]