Rob's Blog
The New Series Collaboration with Gene Kelly: Blue Vegas
Joe Lawler, retired veteran street-cop, has quit Chicagoland to relocate from the cold rainy Midwest to the blue skies, the115-degree summers, mountains and deserts of Southern Nevada. And, oh yes, Glitter Gulch, the Las Vegas Strip, and it's 24/7 gambling, booze,...
New Release! Marnie and the Edmund Fitzgerald
My latest underwater thriller is a real twister! Marnie, a traumatized woman who just had a bad break up of the mysteriously dead boyfriend kind finds herself in a hunt for whatever is lurking in the depths that enshrine the historic wrecked ship The Edmund...
The ‘Old Fart’ Squad – Sleuths of the Chicaghosts Series
by Robert W. Walker, author of Dead On Instinct In coming across an article in the AARP Magazine, I read of how one police department was hoping to solve more Cold Case files by rehiring retired police detectives to cover Cold Files; it caught my full attention and my...
Interview with Author Robert W. Walker by Randy Richardson
Compelling. An adjective that means having a powerful and irresistible effect. Robert W. Walker completed his first novel in high school and it was good enough to get him into Northwestern University. He has since gone on to pen more than 40 books. What he has sought...
Contours and Shapes in Genre Fiction
by Robert W. Walker, author of Under the Dead Man’s Hat, Vampire Dreams & 80 other titles There are steps a young writer can take to improve the contours of a story overnight. There are skills that can be taught and understood in teachable moments about writing....
How I arrive at the 6th Sense in Setting Scenes
by Robert W. Walker Amid the clamor of writing, the sounds fill our heads—voices of characters, often clear, distinct and speaking in complete sentences or yelping in pain; then the clang of bells, the whisper of grasshoppers, the feel of a half-wild breeze and her...
ALL HANDS on DECK, All Characters ACT
There are –not a good way to open a story, THERE WERE or THERE ARE…just saying. These are not rules but rather what I have learned over a lifetime of writing: Never start your story describing a sunset or a moonglow or a stand of trees UNLESS there is a dangerous...
On Becoming an Artful Writer
Martin Scorscese was awarded a special life’s work Golden Globe award for directing films, and his acceptance speech was a long eulogy to all those who came before him, all those he learned from and built upon. Ever watch a young artist at work? Go to any museum and...
The GALLOPING WRITER: correcting the dysfunctional author’s life
Fast Writing is Confident Writing Writers like any artists have spells when they wonder why bother, what am I doing this for, may's well stop wasting my time, my energy on this 'nonsense' -- creating fiction, a pack of lies to prove a truth, and if it is for money or...
It’s time to clear the old bats out of your attic
Robert W. Walker doesn't want any distractions around while you read DEAD ON. Not some whispering noises from above your bedroom ceiling, nor finger-nail scratches on the window pane, not even the scurrying of rats and bats in the attic. You need to concentrate, have...