San Diego-based writer Walter G. Meyer has numerous interesting projects in the works including the companion book to the San Diego History Center’s LGBTQ+ exhibit. The book will be published early in 2020. He is currently co-writing a book for bush pilot Ron Carlson about his flying adventures. The business book he co-wrote wrote with consultant and business coach Jordan Goldrich.
Walt at the opening of the San Diego History Center’s LGBTQ+ exhibit which he helped create and about which he is writing the companion book. (Left to right: Colorado Public Radio’s Jo Ann Allen; Walt; video editor Amy Fan who worked on the exhibit.
His novel, Rounding Third, continues to sell 10 years after it was published. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, was a finalist for a San Diego Book award, and an Amazon best-seller.
Walt has written for dozens of newspapers and magazines–some of that work can be seen on his periodicals page. The play which he co-wrote, GAM3RS, was being turned into a web/TV series by Relativity when that company went out of business. Several of his screenplays have been optioned to be movies and there are others in the works.
Walt (at center in blue shirt) on the set of the pilot for the TV show based on his play, GAM3RS.
Additionally, he has co-written or ghost-written four other published books: Going for the Green, Day Is Ending, Going Om, and The Respectful Leader.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, he always knew he wanted to be a writer and this desire was reinforced when in the 4th grade he won a short story contest sponsored by The Atlantic Monthly. He wrote for his elementary school paper, his high school newspaper, (turning “pro” in the 9th grade by selling his first paid work to the local newspaper), then going on to write for The Daily Collegian at Penn State. One of his humor columns about the strange dialect of his home town was written up in the Penn Stater alumni magazine then picked up by other newspapers and spawned a host of imitations including t-shirts, coffee mugs and books featuring Pittsburghese.
His column commenting on college life was so popular that shortly following graduation he was asked to speak at his alma mater, a rare honor for a 21-year-old. He since has returned to speak at Penn State three more times, and has also addressed a full assembly of his old high school about bullying.
After college, Walt moved to California to continue his freelance writing career and worked a variety of jobs to support his writing habit. He managed a racquet club, bookstore, motel, and an automated drive-thru grocery store, along with some modeling, acting, and stand-up comedy. He now devotes his full time to writing, business consulting, and teaching business seminars and adult education courses.
Walt speaking at Arizona State University.
