William Mark Simmons Biography
Wm. (William) Mark Simmons, born 1953 in Independence, Missouri, is an American writer best known for his humorous fantasy and horror novels.
Simmons has worked as a journalist, educator, entertainer, and broadcaster, spending more than 30 years in the latter category working in cl*ical music formats for National Public Radio affiliates.
Although he garnered awards as a journalist in his twenties, he did not turn his talents to long-form fiction until his late thirties, publishing his first novel in 1990. A Compton Crook Award finalist, he made Locus Magazine's "Best Lists" in 1991.
A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), Simmons presently lives in Hutchinson, Kansas where he is the Music Director and Cl*ical Morning host for the Radio Kansas network.
In 2010 Simmons was the Interfilk guest musician at FilkOntario 20, a yearly Filk music conference and convention in Ontario, Canada.
Bibliography
The Dreamland Chronicles
- In the Net of Dreams (1990, ISBN:0-445-21016-8) (Compton Crook Award finalist; LOCUS Best List, 1991)
- When Dreams Collide (1992, ISBN:0-446-36154-2)
- The Woman of His Dreams (2002)
Anthologised as The Dreamland Chronicles (ISBN:1-892065-60-6) in 2002.
Chris Cséjthe (Half/Life) series
- One Foot in the Grave (1996, ISBN:0-671-87721-6)
- Dead on My Feet (2003, ISBN:0-7434-3610-5 hardcover, ISBN:1-4165-0910-0 trade paperback)
- Habeas Corpses (2005, ISBN:1-4165-0913-5)
- Dead Easy (2007, ISBN:1-4165-2132-1 hardback)
- A Witch in Time (2019)
Pathfinder (serialized in episodic novellas)
- Pathfinder I (2007, ISBN:1-893687-75-9 chapbook)
External links
- PerSimmons at the Wayback Machine (archived February 27, 2017) — official website
- Bibliography at the Wayback Machine (archived September 5, 2015) at SciFan
- Wm Mark Simmons at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
