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Walter Stephen Geeding was born in Washington D.C.the son of an FBI agent, he would best describe himself as a renegade, runaway, adventurer, nomadic traveller, poet, Christian, prosecuting and defence attorney, and a novelist fifty years in the making. His motto in life is ‘No guts no glory,’ and when you look at his life it would be fair to say he has lived up to that motto.
In his younger days Walter led a nomadic life, crisscrossing America in all directions, what he saw, witnessed and experienced back then has had a profound impact on his life, to the extent many of those real-life experiences have infiltrated there way into his books and formed a significant footing for the main narratives within. For a man who in his youth was barely able to spell and with three failed marriages, with God’s guidance has managed to turn his life around to becoming a successful dedicated attorney both for defence and prosecution cases. Not only did he skilfully turn around his professional life, but it can also be said he equally attuned his personal life now, married to Linda for neigh on thirty years, father to six children and grandfather to fourteen grandchildren. Life for Walter now is more blended, he has stepped away from the legal profession and now focuses on what he deems to be more fruitful and less stressful aspects of his life, family and writing.
Walter presently lives in a cabin on Elk River in southwest Missouri a place he calls Solitaire, a place where he and Linda are at peace with their menagerie of dogs and cats, a place that keeps him sane and allows him to do what he now loves best, to write.
So, Let’s see what he writes about.
Check out our video chat here!
The Path of Kokopelli (Book One)
The story of The Path of Kokopelli the first book in this series is creatively told across twenty expressive and fertile chapters. It was put out on Amazon in September 2021. The narrative evolves around the time travel exploits of Jack and Jim two lifetime drinking soulmates that live a carefree life just scraping by. A mis-placed cabin draws their attention, the cabin’s persona reveals its expectations beyond their wildest fantasies of simple treasure hunting for easy money to pay their bar bills. The holy grail of adventures is about to come their way, these crazy characters are about to enter a different a world, a trading world of 1822 in New Mexico, the era of Kokopelli a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player venerated by some native Americans in the Southwestern United States. In Pueblo mythology Kokopelli is depicted as carrying seeds, babies and blankets in his hump and offered them to the maidens of the villages. Kokopelli keeps Jim and Jack alive when they’re in the nineteenth century time travel period, William Becknell the first American trader allowed in New Mexico then, thinks there crazy, the Hidalgos those of Spanish and Portuguese nobility love their trade goods and the local Native Americans love the crazy two. Violent Spanish culture, savage Apache’s and the untamed 1822 era of New Mexico brings untold wealth to them. What a book! Packed with adventure.
Murphy’s Diggings (Book Two)
Jack and Jim, the main protagonists from The Path of Kokopelli are back with more spills and twists wonderfully foretold over twenty chapters of breath-taking imaginary plots. The book was initially put out in September 2022 and is equally inspiring to read as the first in the series. As you would expect the storyline and the characters have moved on, but still the two despite their wealth face a new set of issues, from thieving heirs, saving the Wyoming Ranch, killings, California Gold Rush in 1848, a millionaire philanthropist, the Murphy boys, a rich Mormon, two helpless Miwok native American boys and voices from the grave, plus more, all blended in a tale of high stakes, lawlessness and potential greed. Another gripping read by Walter Stephen Geeding.
Making Tracks (Book Three)
Shortly to be Released
Jack and company travel the time road once again. A third trip takes them back to the making of the Transcontinental Railroad. Making Tracks moves from Washington.D.C with it extravagant bribes, to ‘Hell on Wheels’ town North Platte, Nebraska until the pounding of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah, 1863-1869 in two months. Throw in 700 years of Migration as seen through the eyes of Dena (the people), hardy ancestors of the Apache and Pueblo, travelling from the Yukon, until vanishing in New Mexico, complete with living in Promontory Cave, Utah. Anything goes in the quest of the ‘Grand Dream,’ the biggest, most expensive, and fraudulent scheme in the history of the United States of the time. Observers, Indian scouts, migrating pilgrims, the two are right in the middle of it.
West Coast Turnabout (Book Four)
In Editing
They’re at it once more, trip number four, West Coast Turnaround, finds the two in big timber country, Oregon, then on to California, three years before the gold rush of 1848-49. San Francisco is still Yerba Buena, a sleepy trade town of 130, mostly Mexican, British and Scottish traders. John Sutter is still a land baron and Sutter’s Fort thrives; gold has yet to be seen in his mill. Sutter’s Indian soldiers enslave the other tribes to work his vast holdings. The Miwok Indians are a peaceful tribe, but not for long; slavers arrive, big change also comes by sea and overland. Both try to keep their Miwok friends alive while becoming enmeshed in Miwok mystical lore and customs. They employ the Miwok as miners to find enough gold for Jack’s friend, Eddie Gindler, to keep his land. The Syndicate has made a fatal move to take the now valuable property. Partially in both Arkansas and Missouri of the future, the property has been in his family for generations; Eddie will fight for it, and his life hangs in the balance. It’s a conundrum on a grand scale, where a man can lose his principles, or life, in the blink of an eye!
Gringos (Book Five)
At the Writing stage
Twenty chapters of stimulating narrative evolving the character Steve, a beekeeper, lawyer, survivalist, prisoner and ally of the strange underground guardians that are trying to save what’s left of earth’s shambolic humanitarian affairs following a nuclear war whose scars have left earth’s surface in a frozen state. Walter Geeding is asking you to follow the main protagonists Steve’s escapades in this first book of the series from the courtrooms of a tiny county in mid -America to the limitless reaches of inner earth. The dangers that are encountered along the way by the guardians are graphically told, so are the exploits of their opponents who are equally determined in their own pursuits to end the journey of mankind come what may.
Narrations of Nui (Book Two)
In the first book bees disappeared, starvation and deprivation take hold on earth, in this book hidden in a cave Steve on the brink of starvation discovers an ancient guardian species known as the ‘Z,’ sent by the creator to preserve all of earth’s treasures, including man. Steve’s connection to the ‘Z’ is intriguing, what role the bees he raised, and an ancient unknown ancestor play is absorbing. Into the melting pot comes Zur a traitor sister to the ‘Z’ long thought dead, but cracks in earth’s crust brought about by relentless nuclear explosions gives Zur the escape method from her imprisonment which has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. With her escape Zur can rekindle her determination to destroy man, all that stands in her way is three hundred humans in various ‘Z’ colonies. What monstrosities Zur despite some limitations can create concerns the queen of the ‘Z’ colony, so much so she sends Steve on a mission to go back in time to meet Nui his long dead grandfather who has faced Zur before. After journeying thousands of miles underground, Steve walks into another dimension of time meeting Nui Ashel. The story starts with Nui taking Steve across vast seas to a different place and time. The planet though is starting to thaw.
A great second story to the colony series.
The Beginning (Book Three)
The story in this book is just as riveting as the other two earlier books in the series. It tells the story of continuing struggles between the remaining ‘Z’ colonies and Queen Zur’s total intent to gain supremacy over a thawing earth now that she can create colonies of powerful giants. The attack scenes are thrilling and totalling absorbing. Steve has spent ten years with Nui his distant grandfather and he has returned to the surface. Will the final conflict result in a reborn earth for the ‘Z’ colonies or will Zur bring about an era of darkness with giants and evil filtrating a new aeon.
Pictures of Life: Rhyming Mind Pictures
A collection of poems turned into pictures in the author’s head from events, actions, animals and sensory pictorial exhibits all presented to him, in his mind by God, nature and travels.
A collection of Christmas memoirs relived through poetry, short stories and song. All original works from the creative mind of the author himself.
Webpage: www.walterstephengeeding.com
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/walter-stephen-geeding-57954b218
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Instagram: www.instagram.com/solitaire.enterprises
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@walterstephengeeding
2022 International Book Awards Winner in the fiction. Western Division.
If you wish to buy or investigate any of Walter’s books, then the best place to go is his website or click the Amazon links above.
Walter, thank you, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your books. I wish you every success with this new writing career.
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