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Curious about the story behind the story titled "RIVERWALKER" ?  Then, please join us today for an interview at The Writer's Life...find us at http://thewriterslife.blogspot.com   Here's an excerpt from that interview:

Welcome to The Writer's Life, Bud.  Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how long you’ve been writing?

A: The first creative writing I managed to produce was in college, a few poems and songs.  It was the era of folk music-meets-the-Beatles, and everyone was suddenly a poet/songwriter, including me. If you could carry a guitar, you qualified; and I could, so I did.  It was a time of cafeteria coffee and pensive expressions, deep discussions over French-fries and 19-cent chiliburgers, love-ins and campus protests; all the while, like fingernails scraping across a classroom blackboard, the headlines screeched relentlessly of Vietnam while the politicians smiled and handed us our 1-A draft classification.  Eventually, I decided to enlist in the Army and, by January of ’69, was off to Fort Ord for basic training, and thereafter to the Army Intelligence School at Fort Holabird, Maryland for their Special Agent course.  We were to be tasked primarily with conducting background investigations on Department of Defense personnel who required security clearances, and so were well-trained in interviewing techniques and well-structured report writing.  Operating from our field offices, we dressed in suits and ties, carried a badge and credentials.  During the course of conducting our investigations, our focus was on the subject’s loyalty, integrity, discretion, morals, and character – lidmac, as we referred to it; this constituted the main body of our reports, many of which proved to be, in fact, quite routine.  However, on occasion, some strange bird would lay an egg filled with derogatory information requiring us to follow up with highly-detailed reports.  These proved fascinating as they raised the curtain on a subject’s private life, often revealing a variety of trespasses including acts of sexual promiscuity, gambling, breaches of security, blackmail, questionable loyalty; there were cases involving prisoners of war, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse; all this ultimately generated narratives of incredible depth and drama.  Not only was it an intriguing writing experience, it imposed a daily discipline and provided much grist for the writing mill in the years to follow.   End of excerpt

For the balance of the interview, go to The Writer's Life at http://thewriterslife.blogspot.com  ; remember, "RIVERWALKER" is available at www.Amazon.com/kindle ; once there, go to the search bar and enter: Riverwalker, and Bud Bradshaw (there's another book w/the same title, but by another author)

Smiles,

Bud