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Jesse VanDeWalker

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Born

in Zumbrota, The United States

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TheVanDeWriter

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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October 2011

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Born in the only Zumbrota in the world, in a hospital that no longer exists, I'm always looking for my next great story idea.

I'd been in the retail field for 14 years before I published my first novel, CROW WING in 2011. My second novel, SAINT LUCY, was published in October. The two novels are crime/westerns, and one's the sequel to the other.

There's a passel of my short stories out there in the wild, in the campus e-magazine and the like. ...more

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Average rating: 4.36 · 14 ratings · 4 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Crow Wing 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Lucy 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard Heart Land 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Journeys through the Radiant Citadel (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition)

by Wizards of the Coast

bookshelves: tabletop-gaming, currently-reading

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May 23, 2026 10:11PM

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Vampire Hunter D Volume 8: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two

by Hideyuki Kikuchi

bookshelves: horror, currently-reading

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銃夢火星戦記 11 [Gunnm Kasei Senki 11]

by Yukito Kishiro

bookshelves: comics, sci-fi, currently-reading

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Wrapped up a bit too neatly here on act 3 with not enough explained I thought. Good series though.
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The final Burroughs entry in the series, and not a bad one. While still peppered with the problematic misogyny and racism, they are not the central theme of the book.
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Jesse VanDeWalker rated a book liked it Princes of the Apocalypse (Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition) by Wizards of the Coast	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My group played this up until about halfway through the Earth Temple as I recall. If your group can stand a LARGE scope then I recommend it. However, be ready to flip back and forth repeatedly to different parts of the book or build your own DM compe ...more
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