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What are "June Bug pajamas" ? (Senator Long is apparently wearing them on page 92). Thanks!
Talmadge Walker Sort of a dark metallic green color, like the outer shell of June bugs (which I think are a variety of Japanese beetle, but we always called them June bugs when I was growing up)
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I never Recieved a copy I was wondering when that might be?
Talmadge Walker Hey Dominique,
Sorry about that. There was a problem with the "Clutches of Circumstance" giveaway last fall. Someone in Walla Walla, Washington was trying to game the system by winning 4 copies for the same address. Goodreads dropped those 4 names & addresses, but I wasn't informed when they added new ones. I'll get a copy to you asap. Details will be in your inbox.
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Talmadge, the obvious question from my perspective, just how do you make the concrete move from "idea" to finalized work? I mean. . ., you seem to have such a finger on your own creative response. But how does a person get the story out of himself/herself. Enemas, a quick finger down the throat, of the Roman trick of a feather and a vomitorium aside, how do I get my first work onto paper?
Talmadge Walker Jim, This is going to sound like a copout, but there's no set way. I've had stories (pretty good ones, like Gilead in the Misadventures collection) that I've bounced around in my head for years before putting them down on paper, while others are just a sudden inspiration (best one along that line is Christmas Eve off Main Street, currently available on kindle only but I'll be putting it in a collection soon for paperback). The novella I'm about to put out on kindle (The Pensioner) developed out of some family history I was researching a few years back, but I was prompted to write it now because of a couple of totally unrelated items recently in the news (a NC woman who was the last surviving person in the state to receive a pension, and the reaction to the Bergdahl prisoner swap). And once I start writing some of the stories seem to take a life of their own. I do have a preference for full-circle type endings.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Talmadge Walker I started thinking about the plot of the book I'm working on while doing genealogical research. A couple of my great-great- grandparents served in the Civil War and ended up as POWs, so I was wondering how they got back into society once the war was over.
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What are you currently working on?
Talmadge Walker I'm currently working on a novella that's set primarily in a rest home in the 1920s, with a lot of Civil War flashbacks.
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