William Galbreath

William Galbreath is the author of The Turning of Therese. His preferred pronouns are he/him.

He moved around a lot growing up, living between Oklahoma and Texas. He had always wanted to write, working on fanfiction, books, Tabletop Role-Playing Games, and video games. He has been working toward that goal in some capacity for the bulk of his life. He enjoys playing video games and TTRPGs, his favorite video game is Mass Effect and he enjoys playing D&D and running games of Star Trek Adventures and enjoys watching various sci-fi television and movies such as Star Trek and Doctor Who.

William’s love for writing stemmed from his love for books. One of his favorite genres of books is fantasy, which was a genre from which his three favorite books came, influencing the way in which William formed the basis for his storytelling.

The first book series William ever truly loved was the Discworld series, by Sir Terry Pratchett. Pratchett’s unique way of keeping a fairly grounded collection of main characters, each with their own storylines, an interconnected world, breathing life into the Disc and making every story feel connected and unique, alongside his ability to tell complex stories and keep a world breathing around the story itself, in tandem with worldbuilding through copious amounts of lore helped William see world building done right.

The second book series William loved reading while growing up was the Xanth series, by Piers Anthony. This series, too, had excellent world building and a living, breathing world that evolved and changed with each new cast of characters. It was also full of puns. It helped William feel engaged in the excellent storytelling and dramatic scenes, knowing that nearby was some fire fighting ant, likely battling a fire starting ant and keeping humor in his own stories.

The final book series that helped set the foundation for William was a more recent introduction, Jim Butcher’s, The Dresden Files. The Dresden Files is a fantasy story, set not just in modern times, but in the real world, with magic and magical creatures hiding in plain sight. This helped inspire William to think of all the different ways this could manifest in his own writing for Therese.

William loves telling stories, making characters, and filling his world with bits of lore and thoughts so random that they come to him in a startling 2am dream that makes him sit up, think to himself that he will remember it in the morning, then pass out and forget half of it immediately, only to recreate it on accident four days later while he plays a video game.