WRHAMMONS.COM: The Writing, Running, Etc. Website

WRHAMMONS.COM: THE WRITING, RUNNING, ETC. WEBSITE
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AN AUTHOR'S STORY (THE SHORT VERSION)


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 (help wanted!). 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 and dozens of publishers who represent novels and publish short stories.

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 myspace.com and/or nursing his injuries.