Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2: Ponderings, Essays, & Meditations

by Bev Walton-Porter

Welcome to the second volume of Nocturnal Musings. As with the first volume of Nocturnal Musings, you’ll discover a variety of ponderings and essays. This time you won’t find any short stories, though.


In this version, I added shorter meditations about topics you might wonder about as well. Or maybe you woke up feeling like crap on a cracker and you need someone to remind you that you’re still okay, life will go on, and you get to restart tomorrow and write a new chapter in your own book of life.


As expected, you may or may not resonate with the ponderings, essays, or meditations in this book. However, there’s a chance you might. Perhaps you’ve felt the same way about getting your hair caught in a seatbelt on a friend’s wedding day. Perhaps you’ve felt the opposite and wondered how a person could view the same subject matter from an opposite point of view.


In the end, your mileage may vary (YMMV), as it’s been said. I can’t promise you’ll view life the same way I do; however, I can promise that, regardless of the subject matter, you’ll always receive my unvarnished, slightly skewed view on such matters. Sometimes served with a helping of tact, and other times served with anything but tact.


Thanks for checking out my book. I hope it elicits at least one chuckle (or fit of legit outrage) to your day. If so, my work here is done.

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2017

About the author

Nocturnal by nature, Bev Walton~Porter has been a professional writer, editor, and writing instructor since May 1997. She also writes under the pen names of Bev Sninchak and Star Ferris.

While attending the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Bev majored in Communication and minored in Philosophy, with an emphasis on Eastern belief systems. She also completed an independent study on death & dying in early pagan cultures.

Previously she attended Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma, where she majored in Mass Communication and Psychology. Bev continues to pursue an education in various subjects, including forensic psychology, literature, languages, and psychology.

She's published quite a few books, including Sun Signs for Writers (Writer's Digest Books), Aim To Write: Tips & Tricks for Freeing the Scribe Within, Mending Fences, Hidden Fire, Secrets of the Professional Freelancer, Shadows of the Soul, and Nocturnal Musings: A Collection of Ponderings, Essays, and Short Stories, and Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2: Ponderings, Essays, and Meditations. Bev also co-authored The Complete Writer: A Guide to Tapping Your Full Potential (Red Engine Press).

Over the years, Bev has been a member of a number of professional organizations, including The Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America (RWA), American Copy Editors Society (ACES), The Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), The National Writers Union (NWU), Mid-America Romance Authors (MARA), Sooner Area Romance Authors (SARA), Enid (Oklahoma) Writers Club, Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc., Pikes Peak Writers, American Federation of Astrologers (AFA), Student Allies for Equality (SAFE), Erotica Readers & Writers Association, American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), and Sisters in Crime (national and Colorado chapters).

Her nonfiction books are represented by the Meredith Bernstein Literary Agency in New York City.

Married with two adult children (one of whom is also a professional writer), Bev's hobbies include reading, watching documentaries, conducting research into obscure and/or weird subjects, listening to music, playing World of Warcraft, crocheting, and traveling.