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Wit) or being smacked with a $3.99 sale slipper by an irate Kinney’s Me cranky, I just remind myself of managing the art store next to theįreeway (the owner was Basil Fawlty without Basil’s good qualities, i.e. Whenever the pressures of work and life start to make I am deliriously grateful every day that I get to do what I want toĭo for a living. Might totally fail to sell never occurred to me that first day, although I was excited and relieved-somehow, the idea that my published books When I received the letterįrom DAW that they were going to buy my novel Tailchaser’s Song, Writing becoming a larger and larger focus. Something creative that would actually make me money so I could stopĭoing horrible things for a paycheck. ItĪlways in the back of my mind, though, I was determined to do We wrote songs about bowling and voles and luxury camper Nebraska), Xander Povar and His Soul Commandos, the Bay Cruisers (a BayĬity Rollers-type teen idol band)-and would perform appropriately beforeĬoming back for the encore as ourselves. Pretend to be other bands sometimes-Wheatstraw (a boogie band from Of the members are still professionally making music-but most of all, There was a lot of creativity there, a lot of talent-several Just when we were all finally out of school and might have done The band was called “Idiot”, and I still regret that we fell apart These various projects included several years in a rock band, hostingĪ radio talk show, making commercial and uncommercial art, acting, and Tiles, made tacos, sold shoes, peddled insurance, collected loans-notĪll at the same time, of course, but you get the idea-and worked at Hideous jobs that has so tragically shaped my outlook on life.

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Supporting myself, so after high school I began the series of pretty

I was more interested in living on my own and I didn’t go off to college the way all my friends (and family, for Songs about things we were doing, and improvised great HalloweenĬostumes-she made me a Viking suit one year with a wooden coat hangerįor the helmet-horns and a furry bathmat for the vest. Were always encouraged, especially in our creativity. Wealthy side of town-but we never suffered (except existentially) and My parents never had much money-we were not on the I’ve spent lots of my life in Palo Alto, the town that grew up around Santa Cruz mountains in a suitably strange and beautiful house. The first volume in the long-awaited return to the world of the The debut of a number of them March 2017 brings ‘The Witchwood Crown’, Tad always has several secret projects on the go. Novels, comics, scripts, etc., have strongly influenced a generation of Science-fiction series, fantastical stories of all kinds, urban fantasy His considerable output of epic fantasy and epic Genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. It takes place 30 years after the original trilogy. He also announced via his blog a new trilogy The Last King of Osten Ard, which is a sequel trilogy to his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. The third installment is currently being written.

The first two books in the series are The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm. Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife, Deborah Beale, called The Ordinary Farm Adventures. Other comic work includes Mirrorworld: Rain and The Helmet of Fate: Ibis the Invincible #1 (DC). He also wrote Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis for DC starting with issue #50 and ending with issue #57. Williams’ work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next. Cumulatively, over 17 million copies of Williams' works have been sold. His short fiction and essays have been published in anthologies and collected in Rite: Short Work and A Stark and Wormy Knight. Most recently, Williams published The Bobby Dollar series. He is the international bestselling fantasy and science fiction author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, and Shadowmarch series as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song, The War of the Flowers, Caliban's Hour, and Child of an Ancient City. Robert Paul 'Tad' Williams (born 14 March 1957 in San Jose, California) is an American writer.