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Biography Bill Smith's writing credits include:
Bill Smith's books have sold nearly half a million copies. He has written for leading publishers such as Del Rey Books, Little Brown, Lucasfilm, Topps, West End Games, TSR Inc. and Wizard Press. From
1991 to 1997, he
served as the Star Wars
roleplaying game line editor for West
End Games. In 1995, he was voted "Favorite Designer" by the
RPGA, the world's largest organization for role-playing game
enthusiasts. He has also written for Hershey Foods, the WIT Agency, and
has been involved in
motorsports promotion, marketing and journalism for two decades. Bill was in the fourth grade when he realized that he wanted to be an author. Growing up in a small, rural town, he discovered Star Wars not through the movies, but through comics and novels. He very clearly remembers pestering a classmate to borrow his copy of the Marvel Star Wars Super Special, flipping through scenes of X-Wing and TIE fighters battling above the Death Star and thinking to himself, "This is what I want to do when I grow up!" It was all downhill from there. He spent countless spare moments writing stories featuring Han Solo and his trusty sidekick, Luke Skywalker, and soon began creating his own characters and settings. In eighth grade, he spent a few minutes flipping through a friend's Dungeons and Dragons rulebook and was captivated. It led to many hours creating adventures set in the world of elves, orcs, and twenty-sided dice. Bill
earned a BA Public Communications from the The College of Saint Rose in
Albany, NY, where he was editor of the student newspaper. During his
college years, he also did public relations and race announcing for the
Champlain Valley Racing Association. In 1991, Bill joined West End Games and fulfilled his childhood dream of professionally writing and developing role-playing games and stories. As line editor for the Star Wars roleplaying game, he edited or contributed to over forty Star Wars game products, authored updated versions of the game, and wrote two Star Wars Essential Guides for Del Rey books. In 1997, Bill left West End. He and his wife returned to their hometown in the foothills of New York's Adirondack Mountains. At that time, he began writing what would become the Outlaw Galaxy series. In addition, he served as PR director and promoter at Mohawk International Raceway and taught at a local high school. In 2000, Bill and his wife moved to Central Pennsylvania, where he worked as a copywriter for an advertising agency. He developed and wrote the original HersheysRacing.com website. In addition, he has held a number of jobs, both dreadfully ordinary and delightfully unusual. He particularly enjoyed his time as a ghost tour guide in Gettysburg, PA (GhostsOfGettysburg.com) and as announcer at Hagerstown Speedway and Susquehanna Speedway Park. In 2004, Bill and his family returned to their hometown in Northern New York. Bill works a day job to support his writing habit and continues to publish Outlaw Galaxy stories. He hopes you enjoy them. |
