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Bill Smith's Biography Bill Smith's writing credits include:
Bill Smith's books have sold nearly half a million copies. He has written for many leading publishers, including 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 covered
motorsports for several publications. Bill was in the fourth grade decided he wanted to be an author. Growing up in a small, rural town, his first exposure to Star Wars and the adventures of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo came 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!" He spent his 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 Adirondacks of New York state. At that time, he began writing what would become the Outlaw Galaxy series. In addition, he served as PR director and promoter at Frogtown Speedway and taught at a local high school. In 2000, Bill and his wife moved to Central Pennsylvania to work for an advertising agency. He developed and wrote the original HersheysRacing.com website, was a ghost tour guide in Gettysburg, PA (GhostsOfGettysburg.com) and was the announcer at Hagerstown Speedway and Susquehanna Speedway Park. In 2004, Bill and his family returned to their hometown, where they have a calm, laidback, but pretty content lifestyle. Bill works the dreaded day job to support his writing habit and continues to publish Outlaw Galaxy stories. He hopes you enjoy them. |
