Bill Lockwood
Author Interview - Bill Lockwood
Author I draw inspiration from: John Irving, Tom Robbins, john Steinbeck
Favorite place to read a book: On the patio in the garden
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Doc from Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row”
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: When my mother ready the "Hardy Book Mystery Series" to me.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Paperback and Audiobook
The last book I read: "When Paris Went Dark" by Robert Rosbottom
Pen & paper or computer: Pen for notes, computer for the actual story
If I wasn’t an author, I’d be a: Stage manager in a professional theater
Favorite decade in fashion history: 1960s
Place I’d most like to travel: Paris
My signature drink: Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Favorite artist: Monet
Number one on my bucket list: Visit Europe again.
Anything else you'd like to add: Writing has always been fun for me.
Author Bio: Bill was born in Baltimore, Md. and moved to southeastern VT and Bellows Falls in the early 1990s. Recently retired, by day he was a social services worker for the States of MD and VT. By night he was active in community theater in mostly off stage roles from Directing to pulling the curtain. In Vermont he was the longest serving Chairman of the Bellows Falls Opera House Restoration Committee and was honored for his work by being chosen 2006 Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce Person of the Year. As a writer in Baltimore he wrote feature stories and reviews in “Stage Right”, a community theater newsletter in the 1980s. In Vermont he had four short stories published in obscure literary magazines in the early 1990s and wrote articles covering the arts, personalities, and rural downtown development in the “Bellows Falls (VT ) Town Crier from 1998 through 2006. He also wrote articles for other local publications and some Vermont tourist magazines. Currently he contributes free lance to “The Shopper/Vermont Journal” and covers community theat3er for the daily “Eagle Times”. He has had four Historical Fiction novels published by The Wild Rose Press; “Buried Gold” 2016, “Megan of the Mists” 2017, “Ms. Anna” 2018, and “The monsignor’s Agents” 2020.