Bob Waldner

Category: Writing

  • “The Last Hard Man in Tribeca” is live in the new issue of Pinball!

    What’s that?  Your job is less engaging than you’d hoped?  You’re not sure you can make it to lunch without going insane?  Well, you’re in luck.  Take a break and read my new short story, The Last Hard Man in Tribeca.  It’s live in the new issue of Pinball this morning!  

  • Giving Kindle Scout a Try

    Are you curious about my new novel?  Do you want to see what the cover looks like?  Read the first few pages?  Well, today’s your lucky day, because you can do all of that and help me out at the same time. I’ve entered The Prophet of Marathon into the Kindle Scout program, and my campaign went live…

  • September 11 in Lower Manhattan

    Tacked to the wall of my office, just above the spot on my desk where the telephone sits, I keep a copy of William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. If you’ve never read it, or if you haven’t read it lately, take a minute and Google it. In five short paragraphs, he manages to…

  • Short-Changed is live in Mulberry Fork Review!

    Good news – my short story, Short-Changed, is now live in Issue 3, Volume 2 of Mulberry Fork Review.  You can check it out here. Let me know what you think of it!

  • What do Kurt Vonnegut and I have in common?

    OK… probably not all the much, really.  But, as of December, I’ll be able to say that we’ve both been published by The Satuday Evening Post.  They just bought my short story, Undocumented, to use on their website as part of their New Fiction Friday series!  I’m very excited about it.  The only bad news…

  • I’m Still Here…

    … although you wouldn’t know it if you looked at my blog.  Pretty shameful stuff on my end, not having posted anything here  since September.  I guess that’s part of the challenge of being a part time author – it’s easy to let things slide, and before you know it, you’ve gone three months without updating…

  • Back to School Special!

    If you recall, some months ago, I said that I hoped to finish the first draft of my second novel by the end of the summer.  Since I turned on my TV last night and saw a college football game, it seems like that time has come (although, in our house, summer won’t officially end…

  • Mid-Summer Update

    Summer is just flying by, isn’t it?  I can’t believe it’s August already!  July was packed full of family fun, and there’s more on the way!  In between, though, I’ve tried to buckle down and push myself to finish the first draft of book number two.  I’m up to 80,000 words, and I think the…

  • “Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”

    Fair warning:  this post contains some discussion about the personality of the main character of Peripheral Involvement.  There’s nothing here that I would describe as a spoiler, plot-wise, but if you haven’t read the book, and if you’re the type of person that likes to read things with a totally clean slate, then maybe stop here…

  • The (murkier than you might think) question of genre

    Whenever I’ve approached anyone and tried to get them interested in my novel, they’ve almost always asked about genre.  Literary agents want to see it in query letters, writing competitions demand that you specify it on your entry form, and readers use it as a tool to help them choose amongst the millions of books on offer. That makes a certain amount of sense,…