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Jesse VanDeWalker

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Born

in Zumbrota, The United States

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Richard Stark, Stephen King, O. Henry ...more

Member Since

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: 4.4 · 15 ratings · 5 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
	Hard Heart Land 4.50 avg rating — 4 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
	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

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Jesse is Currently Reading

Jesse VanDeWalker is currently reading

Vampire Hunter D Volume 5: The Stuff of Dreams

by Hideyuki Kikuchi

bookshelves: horror, sci-fi, currently-reading

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

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The Tragedy of Z (Drury Lane, #3)

by Barnaby Ross

bookshelves: classic-fiction, mystery, currently-reading

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Early takes of Eric when he is slightly less morose to start with, and then you find out why he gets that way.
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