Wally Wood is a full-time writer and editor. Pale Dude, his fifth book, is a novel of race relations and changing attitudes during the 1960s, told from the perspective of a young white couple, fresh from the Midwest, who move into a low-income New York City housing project in Harlem. This timely and unusual novel features vivid characters challenged by personal and political upheavals that force them to reassess who they are and what they think about the world.set in a Harlem low-income housing project during the early 1960s. 

The Yard Sale Players Present “East Lynne,” his fourth book, is a novel of intergenerational relationships and conflict, told from the perspective of an octogenarian former soap opera legend turned community theater impresario. Celeste Allerton is a wealthy widow, an 85-year-old soap star retired to artsy Western Massachusetts and dabbling in summer theater. When she learns that the local high school is dropping its drama program, she decides to bankroll a new theater company (The Yard Sale Players) with the drama teacher as director. Her one immutable demand: the initial production must be “East Lynne,” a Victorian melodrama in which she will have the lead.

Wally obtained an MA in creative writing in 2002 from the City College of New York and a BA in philosophy from Columbia University. He has independently published three novels (Getting Oriented, A Novel About Japan; The Girl in the Photo; Death in a Family Business) and, as a ghostwriter, he has commercially published 23 business books.

He is a regular reviewer for Bookpleasures.com, and maintains a blog (www.mysteriesofwriting.blogspot.com) and a Facebook and Twitter presence. He is translating a second book of Japanese short stories into English to build his reading proficiency. He has been a volunteer writing teacher in state and federal prisons for more than twenty years.