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Williams continued working various jobs for a few more years, including three years from 1987 to 1990 as a technical writer at Apple Computer's Knowledge Engineering Department, taking problem-solving field material from engineers and turning it into research articles (which led, in part, to the Otherland books), before making fiction writing his full-time career. DAW Books liked it and published it, beginning a long association that continues to this day. To get his publishers to look at his first manuscript he spun a story about needing a replacement copy because his had been destroyed. In his mid twenties, he turned to writing and submitted the manuscript of his novel Tailchaser's Song to DAW Books. A pilot was shot featuring several people who would go on to become Bay Area acting alumni, including Greg Proops, Mike McShane, Joan Mankin, Marga Gomez and several members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

#Tad williams otherland goodreads series#

In addition, he created 'Valley Vision,' a TV series concept, a show about a local TV station. Jack Steckel's 21st Century Vaudeville', which was broadcast on San Francisco Bay Area local TV in 19. He and his colleague Andrew Harris created a company, Telemorphix, in order to produce it. Williams also worked for Apple, developing an interest in interactive multi-media.

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īefore becoming a full time fiction author Williams held many jobs including delivering newspapers, food service, DJ and station music director for college radio station KFJC, shoe sales, branch manager of a financial institution, writing for the TheatreWorks company and drawing military manuals. The semi-autobiographical character Pogo Cashman, who appears in some of his stories, is a reference to the nickname. His mother gave him the nickname 'Tad' after the young characters in Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo. His family was close, and he and his brothers were always encouraged in their creativity. He attended Palo Alto Senior High School. He grew up in Palo Alto, the town that grew up around Stanford University. Robert Paul 'Tad' Williams was born in San Jose, California on March 14, 1957.

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 issue #50 to #57. Williams's work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next. Cumulatively, over 17 million copies of Williams's works have been sold. Most recently, Williams published The Bobby Dollar series. He is the author of the multivolume Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, Otherland series, and Shadowmarch series as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. Robert Paul 'Tad' Williams (born 14 March 1957) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. Storyteller, novelist, short story writer, comics writer and essayist