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Perrysburg Author Bill Williams on His First Book and Advice for Aspiring Writers (Summer Reading Series Part 2 of 4)

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Release Date: 06/27/2025

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This is part two of my 2025 Summer Reading Series. 

  • In Part One, Tracy and Alisha from Way Public Library talked about the library’s Summer Reading Programs. Click to listen: https://www.perrysburgpodcast.com/100.
  • Part Two is today. Bill Williams talks about his book 20 Years of Internet Humor and Other Interesting Things: Volume One and also gives advice for aspiring authors.
  • We’ll take a break from the Series for The Perrysburg Podcast’s 2 Year Anniversary Show on July 4. I’ll talk about stats, lessons learned, what’s next, and more.
  • The series starts back up on July 11th with Part Three. It’s is my interview with Denise Phillips from Gathering Volumes Bookstore, an independent bookstore here in Perrysburg.
  • The Fourth and final part of the series comes out on Friday, July 18. It’s my interview with Local Author, Gary Franks. Local history is his area of expertise. As with Bill Williams (Part Two of the Series), Gary also gives advice for first-time authors.

 

Read the FULL show notes on https://www.perrysburgpodcast.com/101

 

Share this episode with someone who might like to learn about Bill’s book or follow my Summer Reading Series. Thank you for listening today!

 

Bio - W.G. (Bill) Williams (June 2025)

 

Bill started his career in West Texas Working his way through Texas Tech as a photographer and writer for the local newspaper and working in the campus radio and television stations while getting a BA and MA in broadcasting and journalism. 

 

After graduating, he went to the University of Texas at Austin as director of both a four-city instructional television network and the university’s four channel instructional television system. While there, he also taught graduate level TV courses and worked on a doctorate in mass communications. 

 

From Austin Bill moved to Ohio, where he accepted a position at Bowling Green State University’s new television station to become their director of instructional television and special projects. 

 

When then moved to Washington DC where he started his own communications consulting firm. His clients included trade, associations, corporations, and many government agencies, including the Army and Navy, the Postal Service, the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, the White House, and the Secret Service. He was also asked to take a one-year contract as FEMA’s first Director of News and Information when that agency was first created. Some of the many events he was involved with included Three Mile Island, Mt St Helens, and the Cuban Refugee Boatlift. While in Washington, he was elected national president of the Independent Media Producers Association, and as a registered lobbyist, helped get several laws past to help independent producers.

 

In addition to his professional work, while in Washington, Bill was asked to take a part-time position at the University of Maryland teaching Advanced Television News Production.

 

After 20 years in Washington, Bill decided to change careers and move back to Ohio as a registered investment advisor to give his two young daughters the chance to grow up around friends and relatives… A chance that he never had growing up in a military family, and moving often enough for him to have attended 14 different schools before graduating.

 

Now, he's publishing a series of books entitled 20 years of Internet Humor… and Some Other Interesting Things based upon decades of sending out a “Thought Tor the Day” through the Internet.

 

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