AN AUTHOR'S STORY (THE SHORT VERSION)
Jack, My Faithful Assistant
Bill Hammons was born in Germany during the early Seventies to
a career Army officer during his father's tour of duty there. He was raised in
Odessa, Texas from the age of five, and graduated from Permian High School in
1993 (yes, that Permian High School). He then moved to Manhattan to attend
college, and graduated from NYU in 1997
(where he was a member of the
Beta Gamma chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon) with a degree in English and American
Literature (not to mention a heck of a lot of student loans).
After a career in traditional book and magazine publishing (including seven years and seven days at
Newsweek Magazine), Bill decided to ditch the skyscrapers of Manhattan
for Colorado's Front Range, and turned his personal writing and running
website into a commercial venture. After surveying the not-entirely-helpful lists of agents and editors elsewhere
on the Web, he decided he could do better, and started Bill's List of
Literary Agents and Their Authors’ Books as a service to help make sense of
the hundreds of literary agents out there.
In November 2007, Bill Hammons declared for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District (centered on Boulder), as the first
Unity Party of America Congressional candidate. He successfully petitioned onto the 2008 General
Election ballot with 899 valid voter signatures, and appeared on television, on radio, and in dozens of newspaper articles (not to mention
on several local city bus advertisements in Boulder and Broomfield counties). Bill received thousands of votes in that election, and the Unity Party
is now officially recognized in the State of Colorado as a result of his candidacy and petition. To make the most of his unique and ongoing
experience in politics, he started Bill Hammons' American Politics Guide in
early 2009.
Bill also loves running (he created Bill's Boston Marathon Qualifiers Guide after seeing a need for a guide to
marathons (sorted by name, month, US state, Canadian province, and other countries) which serious marathoners could run to qualify for the
prestigious Boston Marathon). He also loves hiking in and around
the world's greatest city of
Boulder, Colorado when he's not sitting in front of the computer, futzing around on
Facebook, and/or nursing his injuries.
