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Walter Danley

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Walter Danley is a mystery and suspense novelist and the author of the Wainwright Mystery Series, a highly praised, fast-paced thriller novel series. The Blasted Series takes on a different literary spin. These novels explore a time-traveler's experiences when the protagonist is thrust back in time to a small post-Civil War Texas town in 1872.
Danley’s vivid and creative imagination evolved from his former career as an investment executive. He now writes suspense thrillers instead of living inside one every
day.

Walter grew up in a California beach community where he learned to surf when he wasn’t in school and to build up his newspaper delivery route when he wasn’t surfing. Delivering the daily papers taught Danley how the economy worked and created in him a love for business.

Those lessons started as a twelve-year-old and continued when he earned an MBA in finance from the Graziadio Business School of Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. His education continued working toward a Ph.D. degree in Management Theory at Drucker School of Management of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, all at a much more advanced age.

Two of Danley’s favorite quotes came from his professor and friend, Peter F. Drucker, the father of the modern corporation. Drucker said, Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. “ And the second quote he lives by is, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

In between, he served in the United States Navy as a medical corpsman with specialized training as an operating room tech. After investing many thousands of Government dollars in that training, the Navy transferred Danley to the Fleet Marine Force and a dispensary at the

US Marine Corps Weapons Training Battalion. Riding in the back of a field ambulance and being on the rifle range every day to treat injuries did not use one bit of that expensive surgical training. But he did qualify as Expert Marksman with every small arms weapon used by the Marine Corps. Walter’s Honorable Discharge omitted that accomplishment, however. Military medical personnel are non-combatants (Yeah, sure. Just ask any medic that has served in Nam, or Afghanistan or any other hot spot) and therefore are not awarded marksmanship medals.

As a civilian, Danley had no time for disappointment. His first son was born while attending college in the evenings and selling kitchen cabinets to builders by day. During the next fifteen years, Danley advanced in management and in parental responsibilities. He became a partner in the firm and Daddy to four more sons.

One of the firm’s builder clients offered him the chance to learn the commercial real estate business, and Danley spent the next several decades on the investment side of that industry. He is forever grateful to his builder buddy for the opportunity. Since extensive travel was a part of his early years with the company Danley learned to love fiction novels during long flights and longer waitings at airports. The tedium of air travel was eased somewhat with the company of a Frederick Forsyth thriller, or a gripping Hemmingway novel.

A novel takes a lot of time, dedication, and laser-like focus. In those days Danley gave only a brief nod to the idea that someday he would author a novel. In spite of that, he read Stephan King on Writing, by another of Walter’s favorite authors. He wrote, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot”. The “read a lot” part of King’s admonition was well established.

Danley and his partners sold their several real estate investment companies and he retired (for the first time.) With time available the idea of writing a novel appeared to Walter’s consciousness and a few weeks into retirement, he began to write. The retirement was going well. The writing, not so much. Several months and all Danley had was the first chapter. Distractions of pals phoning in phenomenal property prospects caused him to put the draft of the book into a desk drawer, and Danley went back into the investment business.

Walter tried retirement out for a second time. And with that effort came books on writing and webinars for writers, educational courses, and seminars galore. With some knowledge and advice and encouragement from the writing community, Danley retrieved his twenty-year-old manuscript from the drawer. It took twenty years but when The Tipping Point: A Wainwright Mystery was published, that was the start of a second career, writing books that Danley loves.

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