Category Archives: Walt’s books

Weekly Freebie

This week, my weekly Freebie is a chapter from “Once A Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat and Romance in World War I,” published in 2010 and awarded a Bronze Medal in the Historical Fiction category of the Military Writers Society of America 2011 Annual Book Awards. Continue reading

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“Rough War” A Finalist

My World War II pilot memoir/biography “​Rough War: The Combat Story of Lt. Paul J. Eastman, A ‘Burma Banshee’ P-40 and P-47 Pilot​” was a finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. I just received this certificate today. Continue reading

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Lights! Camera! Action! Write!

Although not all historical fiction has to be rooted in action, the kinds I like to read and write usually are. I have written two historical novels thus far — Once A Knight and Devil in the North Woods. I consider both to be action stories. Continue reading

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Why the Knight in “Once A Knight”?

During my weekend forum on the Military Writers Society of America website last weekend (April 27-29), one of the members asked about my use of the term knight and my basing the fictional village of Cantiny on the actual old walled city of Toul, France. Did it have something to do with the era of knighthood and chivalry? Continue reading

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“Once A Knight” Video Introduction

Here’s the video intro about my historical novel ​Once A Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat and Romance in World War I​ (which is not in the romance novel genre, by the way) plus some info about my weekend author forum sponsored by the Military Writers Society of America. The forum is this weekend. Continue reading

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