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What an exciting time it would have been to be in California’s 1849 Gold Rush, or ride the Oregon Trail, or explore with Lewis and Clark. That is why Big Jim Williams says he loves writing westerns and action stories. As a former publicist, writing press releases taught him to write “tight,” and he applies that skill to writing westerns, crime, SF, general fiction, and historical stories.
Big Jim's Last Man on Earth story will soon be published in the SF anthology, The Last Man (Sword & Saga Press), sharing pages with Ray Bradbury, Jack London, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is author of the audio books, The Old West (Topic/Entertainment), and three-hour Tall Tales of the Old West (Americana Books), which he also narrated. Big Jim has also written for the Shoestring Radio Theatre, and for At Home and Abroad: Prize-Winning Stories (Joyous Publishing). His story Tripwire is scheduled to be in the Murder to MIL-SPEC anthology, due out from Wolfmont Press soon. He also has pieces scheduled for print in Radio World Magazine, and the Texas Livestock weekly.
Big Jim says he seldom knows where his stories will end. He puts characters in unusual situations and writes until the plot gels. If it doesn’t, he waits and rewrites until the story is resolved. He usually begins writing before 6 a.m., an up-early habit acquired during 20 years doing morning radio. Talent is important, but he says it is persistence that makes it happen. It’s said Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid had 21 rejections before becoming a movie. He says constructive criticism is also important, and he has been in a writers’ group for about 15 years.
Big Jim Williams retired as Santa Barbara (CA) City College’s public information officer in ‘92. He and his wife, Joan, have two sons and four grandchildren. He says he writes, re-writes, reads, haunts bookstores, eats too much, watches old movies, drinks beer, has lunch with friends, and naps in Southern California’s warm weather.
Luther J. Cobb is a stagecoach bandit well past his prime. He is old, broke, nearly crippled, and cannot find steady work. Finally, he decides that the only thing he can do is rob one more stagecoach. But can he convince the drivers to take one old bandit seriously?
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