Bill Ellis

Bill Ellis has also published Second Chances (2001), Leading Voices (2004), and A Good Man (2008). Burning Castle is the initial story in a continuing series of adventures of Joe Wolf.Bill served a tour of duty as an Army officer stationed in Germany 1967-1969 and worked in Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado as a problem solver for major Federal programs. Bill has taught writing workshops in public and private organizations since 1976. In 2002 he worked as an AmeriCorps writing mentor first in the Fruita, Colorado Alternative School, and then in the Grand Junction Juvenile Detention Center. He and his wife, Joan, moved to Longmont, Colorado where he joined the Longmont Writers Club and served as president 2007-2009.Bill was awarded grants from the Longmont Council for the Arts to be writer-in-residence at Sunset Middle School 2007 -2008. He coached 8th graders in writing, editing, and publishing an online magazine containing over 200 essays, stories, and poems.He is a frequent contributor of guest opinions/commentaries in the local paper, and speaks to schools on writing.Joan has published her own cookbook and volunteers at the Senior Center each week handquilting.Bill and Joan have a combined family of six children and 11 grandchildren. Black cats Jack and Grace are new residents after being rescued from the Longmont Humane Society.