William V. Reynolds

William V. Reynolds is the son of a sharecropper from South Georgia. His early years were spent in a transition period--not quite primitive, not quite modern. As a result, he has firsthand knowledge of farming with a mule, picking corn by hand, harvesting cotton and tobacco,killing and dressing meat, and a host of other things that one learns growing up in a rural community. After graduating from college, he began his career as a mathematics teacher and later earned masters and education specialist degrees. Through the years, he has also worked as a movie protectionist, theater manager, shipping clerk, truck driver, and minister.

Since retiring he has been able to pursue a life long dream of writing. His main interest is historical fiction because he gets to speculate on what life might have been like for the people of a given era. He enjoys reading history, not as dry facts, but about the people who made it happen. A friend of his used to say: “History is not dates and places. It’s people. If you want to study history, study the people who made it.”

William has seven novels that have been published since 2000 which include a historical fiction trilogy based on his oral family history–River Pilot, Hard Times, and Call of the Pines. Project Messiah is considered to be a science fiction/religious account of the possible coming of the antichrist. A country preacher deals with sin in the guise of adultery, arson, and murder in his page turner called Circuit Rider which is also historical fiction. A homeless man adopts a dog while traveling across the across the country to keep a date with destiny in the adventure Life with Charlie–a must read for all animal lovers, especially dogs. He is especially excited that he has a request for Life with Charlie to be rewritten as a screenplay and he is now working on this project. William published his seventh novel, Murder in the Okefenokee in 2009. He has written several short stories–The Adventures of Miss Kitty, Guitar Strings, Man on the Doorsteps, The Turkey Shoot, Whatever Happened to Daddy Dog?, and Roundhouse Saturday Night.

After writing River Pilot, William decided to take another adventure and produce a film on and about the Altamaha River where River Pilot is set. As a result of this adventure, his video production began and he has produced: Wake of the Raftsmen: An Odyssey Down the Altamaha, Honduras: Trekking the Land of the Maya, and An Evening at Carter Fold.

In addition to writing, William teaches novel writing courses at John Campbell Folk School, conducts seminars for writers’ groups, is a Contributing Writer to Mature Living in Southeast Georgia, and writes a weekly column Reel Memories as well as being a Contributing Writer for the Sentinel newspapers in Western North Carolina and North Georgia. He is available for speaking and/or book signings at civic, church, library, and historical groups, etc.

In 2004 Reynolds was inducted into the Authors’ of the Round Table by The Book

Shop in Brunswick, Georgia. In 2002 he was recognized in Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets, a Biographical Dictionary of the most influential writers, authors, and poets of the 20th Century and promising, noteworthy writers of the 21st century who through a combined goal have influenced thought through words. He is a member of the North Carolina Writers Network and the Independent Book Publishers Association.

He has traveled extensively throughout the United States. One of his books is a

travelogue based on a trip that he and his wife took through the Western U. S. In 2006, He traveled with a group from his church, First Baptist McCaysville/Copperhill, on a mission trip to Jamaica. He visited Honduras with the Christian Children’s Fund in 2002. A brief visit into Mexico in 1986 carried his family into Juarez.

He says, “There’s nothing more relaxing than drifting down a lazy river while flipping a bug under the bushes. Large bream and redbreast fish lay there waiting to play tug-of-war with the angler who has the patience to wait.”

William and his wife are active members of First Baptist Church McCaysville/Copperhill.