The author is one of five children and is the eldest male with three sisters and a brother. William’s family moved around quite a bit throughout the Midwest and the South when he was young. Once he reached the high school age, they settled into rural life in Illinois where he became the starting quarterback for his school. He graduated mid-term his senior year and joined the United States Navy. As a young man, he was stationed in Pearl Harbor Hawaii and predominately gave tours to the USS Arizona Memorial. During those three years he fell in love with the majesty of the Polynesian islands, surrounded by the beauty of the Pacific's everlasting thunderous surf, and the local laid-back life style.

   After an honorable discharge from the United States Navy, he married his high school sweetheart. Graduating from college with a degree in Computer Science in 1985, he fell in love with binary numbers and still practices the craft today. Divorcing in 1989, and saddened by the loss of wife and son, the author moved to Florida to be close to his father. This is where Key Kokomo was written. The author was on a one year computer contract. During this time, he lived alone in a trailer... in an orange grove... in Zephyrhills Florida where the spiders were big, the nights were long and lonely, and writing the book took away the pain.

    Living almost thirty years in the tropics, with three of those in Hawaii and now mostly in Florida, the author still loves his humble rural mid-west roots. He was born in Kokomo Indiana, and went to high school near Peoria Illinois in a small town called Washington. Today, still maintains a healthy sports attitude enjoying; tennis, golf, inline-skating, and his little fifteen-foot runabout "Baby Lucie."

    As a career computer programmer his accomplishments include introducing some of the first mobile police systems for Washington DC, Denver Colorado, and Tampa Florida. After doing police software, he provided Store and Forward technology for major news organizations, such as CBS News, NBC News, and their nine hundred plus affiliates throughout the country. The author's IT experience has migrated from punched card mainframe programming to lightweight HTML5 clients and Javascript physics engines.

   He is currently working on two spins of the original story. One centers on the racism; he witnessed in the deep-south, and is set during the time-period of the resort's construction between 1930 and 1950. It brings deeper meaning, to some of the characters introduced in his first novel. The other is a story set in 2057, and portrays the author's view of a one world order after World War III, which he calls the 'War of the Brothers and Sisters'.

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