Jack Walker Press

books for verdant, thoughtful, and joyful living

Soft ebook launch of ‘Corners: Voices on Change’

Corners: Voices on Change is scheduled for ebook release on May 3oth.  Why the divided launch? We want you to be able to read these amazing personal stories as soon as possible. And we need your help obtain recommendations and book reviews.  We’d like to have some posted reviews and emailed recommendations before we publish the …

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Help a writer: write a blurb

If someone asks you to write a blurb for a book, it’s a compliment. It wasn’t easy for them you ask you.  No one wants to impose. Writers need blurbs. Your opinion and recommendation have been deemed valuable. A blurb is a bylined recommendation. It can be long or short, and even if it is …

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Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone: The Legend of Lake Isa

Make a family trip to Yellowstone even more fun.  Build anticipation for that some-day trip to Yellowstone.  Read Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone for fun, adventure, and learning.  Kids see actual pictures of Yellowstone–cartoonized as they read the fun adventure. Parents can download paper puppets of the the main characters for fun play-along as you read …

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Peek at our next book cover for ‘Corners: Voices on Change’

Corners: Voices on Change will have a soft launch as an e-book very soon.  Then the paperback will be available at online sellers and in bookstores. Find stories of moving through small and big changes. People get hurt, change religions, get lost, get left, gain insight,  get fired, find out they were wrong.  They see …

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The subtle and big promise of literary nonfiction

We are thinking about titling our new anthology of literary nonfiction, which collects essays with the theme of transformation and inclusion.  Some of the changes are big–death; some are impactful in less obvious ways–a shift in how we see the racial divides expressed in our family.  This is a literary collection, and we need to …

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Update on our anthologies about transitions and exclusion

We thought we had lost our mind. Well, perhaps we had, but we finally found a reason for our altered state. Our submission manager (Green Submissions) had updated software and some of our online submission files came up empty–even though they had been read and scored and some had some preliminary editorial tweaks. Apparently, some …

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Another special discount for great kids

We love readers.  We love adult and children who actively seek to engage with ideas of authors.  So we are planning a series of discount offers to show our affection.  The discounted ebook Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone sold many copies during the promotional period.  Next up find Happy and Sad at a discounted price of …

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Short-term sale for ‘Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone’

For a limited time, Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone will be available in ebook format for only 99cents.  This sale is scheduled to begin on Oct. 28, 2018 and will last only a few days.  Why does the water of Isa Lake drain in two different directions? Follow Howie Tootalot to the wild land we now …

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Book review ‘Lab Girl’ by Hope Jahren

‘Lab Girl,’ by Hope Jahren, Vintage, paperback-2017, 282 pages. One might imagine that no one really needs an autobiography from a bipolar plant geobiologist: one would be mistaken. Hope Jahren’s memoir begins in her father’s lab and continues with a stoic walk in small town Minnesota. As her foot hits the icy pavement, a world …

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