Bill Haynes

BIO: William Haynes aka `Elliott

I was a small press author from 1988 until 2004 and have published writings in Japan, Calcutta, Scotland and Belgium. In the U.S.A., I have published with Pearl, Black Bear Review, Alpha Press and many other small press magazines. Following my move from New York to Missouri in 1995, I began work on a modern day exploration of Dante's INFERNO in a current setting. The foundation of that series was titled The Curse of Mesphisto's Seed which I published in 2004. The following year I released The Apocalypse of Silence through lulu.com. While Curse explored the physical aspects of a direct confrontation between a small group of characters and the devil, Apocalypse showed the psychological ramifications of such an encounter over an extended period of time.

In late December of 2008, I took this series to the next level with my Outskirts Press title: The Shaman and the Rose. Using the same characters from the prior books, I wove the story into the Book of Revelations and introduced many fantasy elements connecting the Inferno with a fictional account of a possible apocalypse. I am currently working on a revision of the first two books.