Thank you to everyone who downloaded The Lost Sheep on Kindle this month!

It was a very productive June for me. Sales were good, and I wrote several chapters of The Last Orphan. It was such a good month that I want to continue the momentum with an offer for free copies of The Last Orphan if you post a review for The Orphan Ship and/or The Lost Sheep on Amazon.com. Just send me an email at SterlingRWalker@yahoo.com when you post a review, and you'll have a signed copy of The Last Orphan as soon as it's released -- hopefully December.

Thanks again, and have a wonderful Independence Day holiday weekend!

Follow me on Twitter!

I decided to join the 21st century by opening a Twitter account. Don't laugh -- I'm a low tech sci-fi author. Ironic, huh? You can follow me @SterlingRWalker.

Don't forget there's just three more days to download The Lost Sheep on Kindle for only .99! Have a great weekend! I'm looking forward to Independence Day next Friday.

The Lost Sheep on Kindle for .99 this month!

Did you enjoy The Orphan Ship? I've decided to offer Book 2, The Lost Sheep, on Kindle for .99 for the month of June! Amazon will change the price sometime tomorrow (June 2). Enjoy both books for .99 each on your Kindle! Happy Summer reading! 
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Sheep-Orphan-Ship-ebook/dp/B00FCD8K52/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-5&qid=1401673043

Thank you for the reviews!

A big thank you goes out to those who participated in my Write a Review -- Get a Free Copy of The Last Orphan. The Orphan Ship is still only .99 on Kindle! 

Thanks for your support, and Happy Memorial Day! I'm grateful to have a holiday to honor my dear father (Army) and my amazing father-in-law (Air Force) who both served our nation, and to my brother Ethan who still serves in the Air Force.

FREEDOM ISN'T FREE

Only Two Days Left to Win a Free Copy of The Last Orphan!

Just write a review of The Orphan Ship and/or The Lost Sheep on Amazon.com and I'll send you a signed copy of The Last Orphan as soon as it's published. It'll be around Christmastime, but what a great gift for yourself! I plan to release all three books as a boxed set in 2015.

Thanks for your support!

Win a free copy of The Last Orphan!

From April 20 -- May 20, write a review for me, and win a copy of my next book, The Last Orphan! Please write a review on Amazon.com and/or Goodreads for either (or both) of my books, and I'll send you a signed copy of The Last Orphan at Christmastime. I know it's a long ways off, but I promise I'm writing as fast as I can!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Orphan-Ship-Sterling-Walker/product-reviews/1484980360/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Sheep-Orphan-Ship-Volume/product-reviews/0990019012/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18830404-the-orphan-ship?from_search=true
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18816465-the-lost-sheep

Send me an email at SterlingRWalker@yahoo.com and let me know that you posted a review, and the last book in the trilogy will be yours! Thank you for your support, and please share!

"Who needs cursive when you can type?"

Handwriting is becoming a lost art. My kids were taught the basics of cursive in 4th grade, then went right back to printing. Nowadays they write with their thumbs only -- on a tiny screen -- with words that are so abbreviated that I now understand why spelling is no longer a subject taught in school. Even as I'm writing this, my laptop signals me with a red underline if the word is spelled wrong -- sometimes if it's only a little off, it corrects it for me, instantly. It gives me a blue zigzag line under words that may not be grammatically correct for the sentence. No proofreading required. Is this progress or is this encouraging laziness? I tend to think the latter.

Who needs cursive? Our children do. Writing in cursive, like playing a musical instrument, stimulates areas of the brain that usually lie dormant. Just as musicians tend to do better in math, people who write in cursive tend to be more creative. Just think of cursive as an art. Budding artists are creative and imaginative. I rarely meet a young plugged-in person who has an original thought in their head. Harsh, but true. Sitting in front of a screen where you are entertained 24/7 leaves little room for creative thinking.

As a leftie, I worked hard to have legible handwriting. I practiced and practiced, determined not to have 'chicken scratching' like my dad, or words smeared across the page because I had to drag my hand across it. I now have beautiful handwriting (and I'm so modest, too). I take pride in my cursive. But my kids can't even read my notes, and I have to print for them. They can't read anything their grandmothers write in their birthday cards -- and my mother and MIL have neat handwriting. I feel like something precious has been lost in the 'progress' of technology.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written in cursive. Now we have a generation of children who can't read the original documents because they can't read cursive. Food for thought on this I-hope-it's-spring-now sunny day.