After August

＂One of my favorite storytellers....＂ - Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist ＂A raw novel written with the passion of memory and the experience of growing up in a beachside community on the northern corner of Florida.＂ - Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post As a former newspaper colleague of Bill Burkett, I can certify that there is truth in this well-crafted prose...＂ - Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-Union The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson’s Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother’s parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to grab a little moment of happiness with her. But Corinne was a lodestone for dangerous men and he was on a collision course with disaster. ＂A nearly lost masterpiece is discovered ... modern Southern Gothic,＂ says Shirrel Rhoades, former fiction editor for The Saturday Evening Post.

William R. Burkett, Jr. published his first novel at 18. He was a strapping youth who lived with his grandparents at Neptune Beach, Florida. His first job was as a copy boy for the Florida Times-Union and Jacksonville Journal, but that soon gave way to a position as feature writer. After a tour of duty as an M.P. in Germany, he resumed his journalistic career. Working in both the States and the Bahamas, he pursued a particular muse - duck hunting. That led to writing for hunting magazines and doing PR for the Washington State Highway Patrol and settlement in the Pacific Northwest where the ducks were plentiful and the fishing was good. Although he cut his teeth as a science fiction writer, this novel proves he has a good sense of drama and a serious turn of phrase.