Museum to host book-signing on Saturday
Shown above, Debra Walden Davis with her first three books: “Almost Home,” “Whispers,” and “On the Border.”
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The Barry County Museum will host a book-signing Saturday for Davis’s latest book, Went for a Ride.
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June 23
Lacey Reeves
Debra Walden Davis is an author close to home. She spent some of her childhood in Barry County, attending Southwest and Rogers, Arkansas, schools. Her father was in the Army, so she found herself moving from place to place continuously. Through all the moves, she always remembered the Ozarks. They held a special place in her heart.
When Debra was in school, there were only five available careers that she could choose from: teacher, nurse, housewife, waitress, or secretary. She couldn’t write for a career, as she had always wanted to do.
The opportunity came for her first book, “Almost Home,” in 2018. It was written from the first-person perspective and reflected Debra’s thoughts on the present times. She has since published three more books, the Gambit Investigations series, with “Whispers”, “On the Border”, and her latest release, “Went for a Ride”.
Debra’s books are individualized to her personality. She longs to be known as “the queen of pop culture” to her readers. Every book is titled from a song, and includes numerous references to notable TV shows, movies, and songs. She crafts a list of references in the backs of her books with each piece of pop culture. The movie Debra loves and quotes the most throughout all her books is the 1959 movie, “Some Like It Hot”.
A book would be spiritless without memorable characters. Debra crafts each of her character’s names to roll off the tongue, with a vivid image in her mind of how they would appear in real life. She has also morphed names of people she knows in real life to names for her characters.
Debra sets her mystery books in the Ozarks and researches her locations. She travels to the places her characters would be and brings in plenty of help to make the story as real and correct as possible. One of her characters even knows the best place in Mark Twain National Forest to hide a body.
Debra encourages everyone to make the book in their mind a reality.
“Everyone has a book in them,”,she says. “Put yourself out there, dig deep, and do what you’ve always wanted to do.”
She has plans to continue her writing.
She will be holding a book signing at the Barry County Museum on Saturday, June 23, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Lacey Reeves
Debra Walden Davis is an author close to home. She spent some of her childhood in Barry County, attending Southwest and Rogers, Arkansas, schools. Her father was in the Army, so she found herself moving from place to place continuously. Through all the moves, she always remembered the Ozarks. They held a special place in her heart.
When Debra was in school, there were only five available careers that she could choose from: teacher, nurse, housewife, waitress, or secretary. She couldn’t write for a career, as she had always wanted to do.
The opportunity came for her first book, “Almost Home,” in 2018. It was written from the first-person perspective and reflected Debra’s thoughts on the present times. She has since published three more books, the Gambit Investigations series, with “Whispers”, “On the Border”, and her latest release, “Went for a Ride”.
Debra’s books are individualized to her personality. She longs to be known as “the queen of pop culture” to her readers. Every book is titled from a song, and includes numerous references to notable TV shows, movies, and songs. She crafts a list of references in the backs of her books with each piece of pop culture. The movie Debra loves and quotes the most throughout all her books is the 1959 movie, “Some Like It Hot”.
A book would be spiritless without memorable characters. Debra crafts each of her character’s names to roll off the tongue, with a vivid image in her mind of how they would appear in real life. She has also morphed names of people she knows in real life to names for her characters.
Debra sets her mystery books in the Ozarks and researches her locations. She travels to the places her characters would be and brings in plenty of help to make the story as real and correct as possible. One of her characters even knows the best place in Mark Twain National Forest to hide a body.
Debra encourages everyone to make the book in their mind a reality.
“Everyone has a book in them,”,she says. “Put yourself out there, dig deep, and do what you’ve always wanted to do.”
She has plans to continue her writing.
She will be holding a book signing at the Barry County Museum on Saturday, June 23, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.