HeyJaredBoo Walker's Drowning in Words
Musings of a bestselling novelist pounding out sentences despite all odds. I share my fave art of all mediums, explore storytelling craft, discuss the monsters in my head, and go anywhere else my muse leads. All are welcome here. boowalker.substack.com
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Meet some of my author friends (opens the original)
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Cheerio, my dearies, you word mongrels, you,I feel like I’ve turned into an old man in his rocking chair lately, always talking about the weather, but that’s what you do when you live in Maine. I’ve never studied weather like I have since moving here. And that’s because you need to be prepared. Yes, it’s starting to get chilly up here, though you wouldn’t know it by watching all the Mainers still in shorts and T-shirts, puttering around the bay in their lobster boats. But also, a nor’easter is c
On the Craft: Steven Pressfield Ruined My Life (opens the original)
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Boo Walker and Kevin Kermes talk fiction, 9/11, and the long broken road of self-development. (opens the original)
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Recommendations galore (opens the original)
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Hello, my dear lit lovelies! I had to share the above photo, which was hidden deep in the Red Mountain archives. That’s your truly and my amigo Nick almost two decades ago, shortly after we left our Wall Street jobs to go chase a dream in the wine biz in Washington State. Can you believe that banjo-playing numbskull in his long underwear can string even one sentence together, let alone make a living doing it? Anyway, where to begin. Let’s not ruminate over the end of summer, or I’ll start weepin
give boo a kick in the... (opens the original)
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My team and I are a week into launching my new novel, The English Bookstore in Bologna, and she’s currently knocking on the door of the top 100 in the entire Amazon Kindle store. That’s out of about 12 to 15 million books. What!!! My agent told me that over four million books were published just last year. How in the world does a wretch like me break through all that noise?Oh, I’ll tell you. YOU.You who buy my books and leap right in, giving me and my characters a chance. You who tell your frien
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