FUN DAY in Mrs. Walker's Class

by Robert Little

Mrs. Walker, a third grade teacher, designed FUN DAY for her class to be fun by using games and competitions to teach the importance of acceptance, talents and teamwork. "Everybody has talents and everybody sholud learn to work together," Mrs. Walker says.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2005

About the author

I was first introduced to science fiction/fantasy via a Robert E. Howard book entitled "Conan the Barbarian". I worked part-time after school in the local library, and was soon hooked. Next came Robert Heinlein (Star Ship Troopers, the Farmer in the Sky), A. E. van Vogt (The World of Null A, the Players of Null A), and a host of others. My current favorites are David Weber's Honor Harrington series, the David Weber-John Ringo series beginning with March Upcountry, and a new author, Mark L. van Name (the Lobo series). 1632 et al is fascinating. If you don't know what I'm referring to, shame on you.

My first science fiction novel went through a number of of evolutions before it went live. I wanted to create a traditional science fiction novel that balanced full-fledged characters in a real world. I believed then that there was a market for this type of book, but to tell you the truth, I would have written it no matter what. That book, "Hawk Seven" soared up to #4 on the Amazon High Tech book list and led to the extension of that story's timeline to include room for three additional books.

In December, 2011 I published volume 1 of the Hawk Flight series. This book, "Hawk Genesis: War" originated in a short piece I wrote that attempted to recreate the battle of Gettysburg as science fiction. The original short story was, well, short on character development, but with the unexpected success of Hawk Seven, I found the time to rework it into a much better story. It takes place earlier in the Hawk timeline, when humanity is thrust into a civil war. I've not attempted to accurately recreate the American Civil War, but I have found the parallels to be compelling. On August 2, 2012, "Hawk Genesis: Peace" was introduced. This is a direct sequel to "War" and resumes the story of John Chamberlin. With the war now ended, he is given a new and even greater task - to help heal the deep wounds of war.

I have a non-science fiction series called "The Older the Better". I worked very hard on this story, which comprises over two thousand pages. It has not found a market, due - I hope - largely to the fact that the story is not easily categorized. Basically, it's a male fantasy beginning with a husband and father who has divorced his wife and seen his kids off to college. From there he finds himself entangled with a female college student, the victim of a vicious rape. Soon, a mysterious conman tries to kill him - several times, he begins to earn money through day trading, goes to work for the federal government as a pseudo Air Martial, becomes a Presidential Negotiator, combats the Sinaloa Drug cartel in Mexico and the Yakuza in Japan, buys lots of rundown commercial real estate, becomes a writer, and so on. I had a great deal of fun with this story, and hope that eventually it will find a readership.

I now have a new series of books, published through Booktango and now beginning to appear for sale in iTunes, Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble and various other retailers. They were terrific fun to write, but include a certain number of real people. In the case where I treated them fairly ('the truth hurts' sort of fair) I've changed the name; in the majority of cases, they come off looking quite good, so the name remained. To avoid any problems, the books are being sold under a pseudonym. I really loved writing them, and in fact I'm working on a fourth, but I have no idea if they will sell.