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And in fact my first novel, written as a sophomore in high school was a Sequel to Huckleberry Finn! I was that young, foolish, and brash (and angry at Twain for not having written the sequel).While born in Corinth, Mississippi, I grew up in Chicago, IL. Bob Walker Camo Since it's listed as horror, it should be on the shelf between King and Koontz! I hold a Masters in English Education, and I hold up my pubishing record as my Ph., so I was witness to crime long before anything else. Bob Walker Camo But the best reward--other than good sales--for me has to be seeing students succeed and grow and sometimes go on to publication.
This only came clear to me after doing my own first Mystery-suspense novel intended as a spoof but published as a "straight forward" and unapologetic action-adventure, Sub-Zero (about how much I made on the deal). Bob Walker Camo Also out now is Fire & Flesh done under the Evan Kingsbury pen name. I believe anyone writing and wishing to publish in the NYC marketplace should sit down and write a mystery, as mystery teaches more about plot & plotting than any other category of fiction. Bob Walker Camo This didn't happen until I wrote a straight "spoofy" mystery/suspense, and that process I recommend to anyone who wants to write--plot a mystery! It teaches more about writing in quick time than any other genre can. My greatest influences have been too many to list, but I'll give you the top of the list: Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Alexander Dumas, Martin Cruz Smith, Thomas Thompson, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, and more recently Patricia Cornwell, the person who finally unmasked Jack the Ripper (cudos to her!).
Bob Walker Camo I have won a teaching excellence award from Bethune-Cookman College, a couple of writing awards from the Florida Freelance Writers Association for fiction and non-fiction, and I've seen many of my books printed in Chech, Polish, Japanese, and "British English" editions. I "won" the "roulette-wheel-lottery" we call publishing first in 1979 and after a slow start, I have been pulbishing every year since. Bob Walker Camo I am in midst of working on a screen play as well as my next novel. I like to think of my published works as filling that void. Bob Walker Camo I am also now reading the strange tale of Elmer McCurdy--history of an American outlaw.
Amaxingly, never givign up on any of my concepts, seventeen years after DANIEL & THE WRONGWAY RAILWAY was written, I did in fact sell it--but not before doing a complete rewrite AGAIN to make it more dramatic and commercial. Bob Walker Camo I found myself struggling with an attempt to write YA historical fiction of the coming of age.