by Chadwick Wall | Jun 18, 2022 | Book Settings, Book Updates
Today marks the fourth birthday of my second novel, The Second Cortez, a finalist in the 2018 Red City Review Book Awards for General Fiction. As I sit here sipping my coffee this Saturday morning, I contemplate the novel’s themes, its characters and pivotal scenes,...
by Chadwick Wall | Nov 21, 2014 | Book Updates
On Sunday, November 16, Water Lessons traversed another milestone: its first book signing. And it occurred at one of my favorite locales in Austin: BookPeople, designated Bookstore of the Year by Publishers Weekly in 2005. Yes, BookPeople, that magnificent three-story...
by Chadwick Wall | Oct 27, 2014 | Book Updates
On Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26, the recently-published Water Lessons debuted at the Texas Book Festival, held annually in late October on the capitol grounds in Austin. Despite the myriad of books sold or displayed at the event, I ended up a few copies...
by Chadwick Wall | Aug 15, 2013 | Book Updates
Whether a fiction writer elects to publish in a traditional or indie form, that writer should ideally search first for a skilled independent editor to ready the manuscript for submission. If that writer chooses the legacy route and must inevitably go under the knife...