Kent D. Williams

Kent D. Williams was a California criminal prosecutor for 31 years. At the beginning of his career he did over 25 misdemeanor jury trials, and in the years that followed he presented over 110 serious felony jury trials to verdict. 43 of those trials were homicide cases. Many of his trials were highly publicized, including a Court TV live-televised murder prosecution of a plastic surgeon whose botched surgery killed his patient. Mr. Williams was assigned to the Major Crimes Unit for most of his career, which focuses on the most heinous violent crimes. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, he decided it was finally time to move on from being a lawyer and seek new challenges.

During his working years, Mr. Williams spent many weekends writing extravagant short stories and novels. Assorted mystical motifs involving outer space travel, time travel, ancient alien visitations, psychedelic odysseys, and occult manifestations repeatedly surface in his writing. He felt that these exotic themes from the sci-fi/horror realms, which he often imbued with dark humor, were an intriguing fictional offset to the grim and tragic realities he saw daily in his primary career.

In his quasi-retirement, Mr. Williams is revisiting his earlier writings, several of which go back decades. Some of them he is toning down, and others he is revving up. If writing these escapades was indulgent fun, editing them is serious and painstaking work. He plans on self-publishing several of these in the upcoming years, as they are the type of stories he likes to read. And, yes, ideas are surfacing for some new stories.

When he is not at his desk working on these projects, he is often in Colorado with his wife, Krittika, and his daughters, Leslie and Veronica. They have an old cabin there, and fixing it up is an ongoing challenge.

Mr. Williams is pleased to report that, so far, no alien edifices have been found implanted under his Colorado property.