After college, Bill worked for many years as a news reporter in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. region. He left as an Associated Press writer for law school. As a lawyer, Bill has written scores of professional articles for law reviews and journals; and has freelanced op-ed pieces for The Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Times Herald, the Baltimore Sun, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He has written novels, short stories for young adults and general readers; and is now working on a memoir. First Comes Winter is his first published novel. Bill lives with his wife in Chevy Chase, Maryland.