Williams, Tad

Tad Williams (Full name Robert Paul Tad Williams) is a very popular American fantasy Author including The Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series, War of the Flowers and The Otherland series.

Tad grew up in Palo Alto, in America and after leaving school he began a number of meaningless Jobs including Stacking tiles, collecting Loans, selling shoes and selling insurance. During his free time Tad concentrated on many projects to futher himself including playing in a band, hosting a Radio show, acting, making Artwork and writing.

Tad always wanted to break away from those dead end jobs and increasingly concentrated on writing as a way to do this. His first Novel was "Tailchasers Song" which is set from a cats perspective with man being a distrusted and mysterious creature. This was published in 1985 and since then Tad has continued to publish very popular epic fantasy series including arguably his best series "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn".

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is an incredibly well written epic in 3 parts (or 4 parts in paperback) featuring Simon "mooncalf" Snowlock as the principal character. A kitchen boy, Simon is forced to flee his home and is reluctantly dragged into a terrible battle of supernatural power that will determine the fate of the land. This story is a grand tale of good versus evil and is set on a continent called Osten Ard.

Tad is currently writting the third novel in the Shadowmarch series (currently titled Shadowrise) and has recently published 6 part comic series called "the Next" published by DC Comics. A second series of comics called "the Factory" is also planned.

In addition to this busy workload Tad, is also currently working on a series of young-adult books co-written with his wife Deborah Beale called "Ordinary Farm". The first volume is currently scheduled for a release in January 2009.