“A small collection of books well worth your time — in my opinion, if you share my interests.”
My History With Books
In 2013, my wife and I moved to Franklin, Kentucky — a small town built around a late 19th-century courthouse square, the kind of place that still has Friday night concerts in the summer and an antique car show in the fall. A little Mayberry. We bought an 1880s house three blocks from the square in quite the rundown condition and spent the better part of a year putting it back together.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, we signed a lease on a storefront six feet wide and thirty-five feet deep and opened a bookstore. We called it bFranklin Bookseller — a nod to Benjamin Franklin, the town’s namesake. Turns out that connection wasn’t as obvious to everyone else as it was to us. But it was ours, and it was quaint, and for a little while it was exactly what I wanted it to be.
Who knew you couldn’t make money selling books from a six-foot-wide storefront?
I needed a job, found one, finished the house, and closed the bookstore. All that in 2014. Life moved on. But the love of books never did.
So What is Second Mountain Media?
Second Mountain Media is a sister to Granddaddy Cant… Yet! Where Granddaddy Can’t is all about learning and growing and trying and failing, Second Mountain Media is for publishing anything that I might write that could be of interest to others. It is my publisher if you will. Following is a list of the books that are in the process of being written, published, sold. If you click on any of covers below they will take you to SecondMountainMedia.com where you can get more detailed information on them. So, in a way this is my second attempt at selling books: smaller inventory, no lease, considerably less financial risk.
Everything here is something I wrote, which means I can vouch for every in them. These are short books by design. Not because the ideas are small, but because you don’t have unlimited time. And, if you are like me before you spend the time to read 300 or more pages in a full-length book, you skim them to see if that time will be well spent. I’ll make a deal with you, if you will give me an hour or so of your time, I’ll do my best to not waste it. I’ve tried to say exactly what needs to be said and stop.
If something speaks to you, I’d be grateful if you’d leave a review. Reviews are the life blood of independent authors, and even a few sentences make a real difference.
Where did Second Mountain come from?
I spent over 50 years in the Banking and Technology industry. That was the First Mountain. Now that I’ve retired, I’m climbing a Second Mountain.
I’msorry I can’t offer you a free cup of coffee, like we did at bFranklin Bookseller. So, grab a cup of your own coffee, sit back, read and let us know what you think?
Grace and Peace —
Scott Walker
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Scott Walker Bio
Scott Walker spent his career on the technology side of banking — writing maintaining software, managing development teams, and helping other people use software to do their jobs. He retired in 2025 and promptly began learning everything he had been too busy to learn before.
He has been married to Glenna for over fifty years. They have two daughters and six grandchildren. Active in his church he has been teaching adult Bible classes for more than forty years.
He is not a theologian, an astronomer, a chef, or a golfer or an AI expert. He is a granddaddy! But he is working on all five. GranddaddyCant.com exists to document the attempt — and Second Mountain Media exists to share what he finds along the way.
He signs everything Grace and Peace, and means it.