My best review yet?

FAKE was reviewed in this month's Prosper Magazine, a regional publication targeted at the Northern California business community. I've got to say it may be the best review the book has gotten. The reviewers called it "a scandalous, suspenseful, uncomfortable, and remarkable story that is very much worth reading," and wrote,"Walton is so upfront about his failings (and is such a good storyteller) that one cannot help but cringe, laugh or gasp as the story unfolds, and root for some kind of personal and/or professional redemption."

As if this weren't kind enough, they go on to call me an "excellent writer," and write, "For anyone who was familiar with the headlines when the story broke, this memoir is a complete surprise, and a remarkable accomplishment for a first book. Let’s hope it’s not his last."

Reading stuff like this can make my whole week.

You can read it online here, or see what it looked like in print here.

Here's an odd anecdote about this magazine: Althought it's typically not found outside of Northern California, my brother and his wife once found a copy in their Moscow hotel room. Moscow, Russia, that is. The magazine had recently been launched, so they've never seen a copy, and they were surprised, when they flipped through it, to see so many articles about Sacramento.