Monthly Archives: March 2021

Adriana’s Family: A Novel by John Walters

My 28th book and 9th novel, Adriana’s Family, is now available to order in paperback or digital form at multiple online booksellers. Aliens attack Earth, or so world governments believe. In the aftermath of global warfare brought on by the … Continue reading

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The Value of Awards

This is a complex subject, but it has been occupying my mind a lot in the last couple of days, so I want to take a stab at it. Every year I read the finalists for a certain literary award … Continue reading

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Book Review: River-Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America by William Least Heat-Moon

I last met William Least Heat-Moon in the memoir Blue Highways, an account of his journey around the continental United States alone in a small camper van. In River-Horse, he undertakes a boat journey along America’s rivers and lakes from … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1 Edited by Jonathan Strahan

Even though a lot of the fiction I write, particularly short fiction, is science fiction or fantasy (or sometimes a blend of the two), I don’t read a lot of genre fiction. My reading goes all over the place – … Continue reading

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