Bill is the author of award-winning speculative short fiction, and creator of the detective team of Ramses II and Bernie Clayberg.
Years ago, he decided that he was not going to age gracefully but go kicking and screaming all the way. Living in Madison, WI and retired from a life in architecture, he has time to devote to the things he truly loves without staying up too late at night. (Hint: too many to list here, go to the links page.)
Currently Bill is working on his first novel, “The Wrong Side of the Rainbow” and plotting out its many sequels. It was selected as a 2025 Finalist and Judges’ Top Pick for the Claymore Award for best unpublished novel given out by Killer Nashville, a major international mystery and genre writers convention.
FUN QUESTION TIME! Ask Bill something, anything. Send it to bill@billbibojr.com. Yes, you with the unkempt facial hair, you can go first.
Okay, now that’s out of the way, let’s continue…
WHY DO YOU WRITE? Wow, starting off with a big one. I guess it’s because I have all these stories inside me and I need to get them out or I might go crazy. I’ll never win a Pulitzer, Hugo, or any grand award. I just want to give people a good time reading my stories. It’s fun writing them, and I hope they’re just as fun to read.
WHY SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND THE LIKE? For that I blame Victor Appleton II. He’s the author of The New Tom Swift Jr Adventures. I devoured these books as a young impressionable child. They were magic for me, and I had them all. After that, there was no looking back. I didn’t want the normal world. That was all around me every day. I wanted something new, adventure, mystery, the unknown. Still do.
WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE ACTOR? That’s easy. He’s the biggest star in Hollywood and beyond. It’s Godzilla, of course. You see, I look upon Godzilla as sort of an everyman. Sometimes he’s the good guy, sometimes he’s not, but he’s always just trying to be himself. Aren’t we all?
IS IT TRUE THAT YOU’VE BECOME AN ORDAINED MINISTER? Yes, I’m an ordained minister for the Church of Gnome. It’s silly and all in good fun. The tenets of their “church” are all positive for personal well-being and for the planet as well. I actually don’t know what made me do it. I guess I needed to do something silly in these times. This just felt right. Added benefit, I can now legally officiate at weddings. I don’t know it will ever happen, but I’m there if you need a gnome.
more to come….
“What’s the point of being grown up, if you can’t act like a child sometimes?”
Tom Baker as Doctor Whi in “Robot”
