About
K.M. Walton is the author of the contemporary YA novels Cracked, Empty, and Ultimatum. Each standalone novel shines light on the hideous effects of bullying. She started Camp Kindness Press where she released her debut picture book series, Gus Goon Says Goon Morning, Gus Goon Says Goon Afternoon, and Gus Goon Says Goon Night, as well as her 21-Day Guided Journal series. Each release from Camp Kindness Press is crafted to help children and adults better their lives with more kindness and empathy. She offers highly engaging and powerful staff development and workshop opportunities for classrooms/schools/districts. She edited and contributed to her music-focused YA anthology, Behind the Song and co-authored Teaching Numeracy: 9 Critical Habits to Ignite Mathematical Thinking for mathematics teachers K - 8. She graduated from West Chester University with a degree in elementary education and spent most of her teaching career in middle school teaching language arts. Mean people baffle her which is why she’s so passionate about acceptance. K.M. gives school presentations and runs workshops—elementary school through university level—titled: The Power of Human Kindness. She’s also a self-taught abstract painter with an emphasis on layers and texture and runs her own Etsy shop where her art is on purses and totes (peruse her art HERE). K.M. and her husband live in Chester County, PA where they raised two incredible sons who have left the nest. Now they are the proud parents of their first dog, a golden retriever puppy named Moxie. Visit the author at kmwalton.com.
Featured Work
ULTIMATUM
It's not Oscar's fault he's misunderstood. Ever since his mother died, he's been disrespected by his father and bullied by his self-absorbed older brother, so he withdraws from his fractured family, seeking refuge in his art.
Vance wishes his younger brother would just loosen up and be cool. It was hard enough to deal with their mother's death without Oscar getting all emotional. At least when Vance pushes himself in lacrosse and parties, he feels alive.
But when their father's alcoholism sends him into liver failure, the two brothers must come face-to-face with their demons―and each other―if they are going to survive a very uncertain future.
