With a Masters in English and Education, William Hammett taught writing at several universities in the New Orleans area for many years before serving as editor at several newspapers and magazines.
As a ghostwriter of fiction and nonfiction, Hammett has worked with Hollywood sitcom directors, film producers, professional athletes, a U.S. Congressman, literary agents, juvenile authors, entrepreneurs, and experts in business, medicine, history, and many other fields. His clients’ work has been published in hardcover and paperback by major New York houses as well as independent and small presses. His work has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers and magazines. Most of his clients are published authors, although he remains open to new authors who have great ideas.
Hammett has also published fiction under his own name. He is the author of four novels: Rimsky Rises (YA), Salamander Illusions, The Erotic Manifesto, and John Lennon and the Mercy Street Café, the last two still in print. He has also published poetry in several dozen literary journals around the country, such as American Poets and Poetry, The Rockford Review, Black Buzzard Review, Pegasus, Parnassus Literary Review, Poem, Creative Juices, Raintown Review, Offerings, Mojo, Risin’, Lynx, Tight, Ship of Fools, Angelflesh, Poets at Work, Lyric, and many more.
He is working on a volume of poetry, a new novel under his own name, and other projects. He runs Publexicon.com and contributes to many other blogs on writing and creativity. He lives in southeastern Louisiana and survived Hurricane Katrina after a twelve-day evacuation.
