Welcome to my official Pandamoon Publishing blog. Here I intend to post weekly about the publishing process, progress on books in production and reviews of other authors' books. I will continue to post a wider variety of topics on my personal blog at http://www.elgonwilliams.com and some of those posts, those pertaining to publishing, may appear here as well.
Since this is a new blog I'm not sure how many features are turned on. It's always an adjustment getting used to something new. I plan to publish at least once weekly, probably on Tuesday. Yes, I realize this is not Tuesday, but this is the beginning. From here on I'll attempt to post on Tuesday.
For those who don't know me, I'm like that guy in high school - the one you never really knew all that well. Although I was a somewhat memorable face in every crowd I wasn't a star athlete or anything like that. I was a columnist for the newspaper and I contributed to a monthly literary magazine from time to time. That was back when I fancied myself a poet though what I wrote were really my attempts at song lyrics. I played bass guitar in a rock band and drove a yellow Opel GT. My senior year I was the co-editor of the newspaper and a member of the yearbook staff. When I completed HS I moved on and, except for one time when I went to visit my aunt who was on her death bed, I never went back to Springfield, Ohio. I have some relatives there and some of the people I knew in grade school an HS are Facebook friends.
I attended Purdue University, receiving a BA in Mass Communication in 1978. Following the blizzard a year earlier my folks sold their farm, which was outside of South Charleston, Ohio, and moved to Mission, Texas. Upon graduation I relocated there before being accepted to The University of Texas at Austin where I studied marketing. I completed my degree in the summer of '81. For those familiar with Austin, I lived in an apartment on 38 1/2 Street just to the east of I-35. Not the greatest neighborhood but it worked out well enough.
Later that year I moved to Florida and tried a couple of different sales jobs before finding work as a copywriter for a small advertising agency that specialized in editorial style copy. I seemed to have a knack for it. My apartment was on a causeway with a view of the bay and Honeymoon Island. A couple of years later, though, a wild hair possessed me to join the Air Force. Uncle Sam packed me off to language school in California where, over the course of a year, I learned Chinese Mandarin. Subsequently, I wound up on the other side of the planet where I spent the next couple of years. Somewhere in all that I married and my son was born.
Upon returning to the States and civilian life I began working in retail rising quickly to management. I spent most of my adult life working for various retailers. As a side line I built, repaired and configured personal computers. Also, I played at writing my first novel. Writing was more of a hobby, though.
While in the Air Force I served as unit historian compiling a 400+ page document on a Wang word processor and publishing it. So, technically, that was my first publishing experience. During college I created a manuscript that I titled Tarot. I still have it somewhere about and have, on occasion, pulled it out to remind me of how far I've come as a writer. Although I believed at the time that it was a great novel I was wise never to submit it to anyone. However, there are pieces of that book that made it into One Over X and The Wolfcat Chronicles.
One Over X was published in 2001, well before I knew what I getting into by becoming an author. Writing is an almost continuous process once it is turned on. I have since self-published a couple of books. In 2012, after leaving retail management to pursue writing full time, I composed the first draft of Fried Windows. A year later I submitted it to Pandamoon Publishing and it was accepted. (Cue fireworks) It was published in May 2014.
There are a number of other books on their way including Becoming Thuperman and a ten book series collectively titled The Wolfcat Chronicles. This blog will follow the progress of those projects and others yet to be added.