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Tom Walker
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The best thing about being a writer is getting paid for lying -- that is, for making things up and have people believe them.
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Signed Confessions: Stories
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2013
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A DAY IN THE LIFE
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2016
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Tom's latest book: A Day in the Life
Have we an unalienable right to take our own lives?
That’s the question author Tom Walker asks in A Day in the Life, a satirical novel about a retired English professor who sees no reason to go on living.
Diagnosed with a prostate cancer that may or may not be treatable, George Noel Gordon Bombazine has given himself 16 hours to decide whether to go on living. Hour by hour, we relive his past as Read more of this blog post »
“Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.”
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“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
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“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
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“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”
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“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
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Signed ConfessionsGuilt and a desperate need to repent drive the antiheroes in Tom Walker’s dark (and often darkly funny) stories:
• A gullible journalist falls for the 40-year-old stripper he profiles in a magazine.
• A faithless husband abandons his family and joins a support group for lost souls.
• A merciless prosecuting attorney grapples with the suicide of his gay son.
• An aging misanthrope must make amends to five former victims.
• An egoistic naval hero is haunted by apparitions of his dead wife and a mysterious little girl.
The seven tales in Signed Confessions measure how far guilty men will go to obtain a forgiveness no one can grant but themselves.
Praise for Signed Confessions
Tom Walker's Signed Confessions is a collection of witty, sardonic, and tantalizingly dark stories that carry weighty matters -- guilt, frustration, anger, manliness, confusion and confession, love, lust, lap dancers -- all in a manner startlingly original and consistently entertaining. Walker is a gutsy and intriguing writer.
- Peggy Payne, author of Sister India, Revelation, and Cobalt Blue
Title Signed Confessions
Author Tom Walker
Publication Date February 14, 2012
Publisher Fomite
ISBN 978-1-937677-36-7
Library of Congress Number
Category 2012950689
Fiction/Short Stories
Retail Price $15.00
Number of Pages 230
Binding Type US Trade Paper
Trim Size 6" x 9"
Language English
Distributed By Ingram; Amazon.com; BarnesandNoble.com
Tom Walker has written hundreds of magazine features, profiles, short stories, and one previous book, Banking on Tradition (2000). Formerly the editor of SA: The Magazine of San Antonio) and two airline magazines (Southwest and Continental), he is currently writing the histories of two dynasties dating back to the Norman Invasion. Walker lives in San Antonio with his artist wife Lila and their Alaskan Malamute rescue dog Gypsy.
For interviews and appearances, contact the author at tomwak@mygrande.net
