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William M. Dean

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Born

in Prince Rupert, Canada

Website

http://www.WMDbooks.com

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Genre

Science Fiction, Crime, Thriller

Influences

Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Isaac Asimov, John Grisham

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December 2014

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I had my first book "published" in grade 4.
Mrs. Holdridge assigned the whole class to illustrate it and she bound it with staples. It was widely distributed...to our parents.
That's when I decided I wanted to become a writer.
That's how influential a single teacher can be.
After that, I wrote many stories that I hope never see the light of day.
I was drawn to the cleverness and technical twists in science fiction (Ben Bova, Aldus Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke--those were the icons of my early years), but always felt they lacked realism.
Then I read The Stand, by Stephen King, and it shook my world. This was fiction that felt real to the core.
And that's what I then aspired to write.
My prose got all high-fallutin for a long while, a ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 62 ratings · 13 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Married Japan: Japan's hilarious journey into one man's life 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wakeless (Joe Sault, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Space Between Thought 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slices of Laugh: Amusing Musings on Life and Family 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of 5 Uncredible Short Stories: from the distorted mind of William M. Dean liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen of All Colors it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wakeless: Joe Sault, book 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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How To Break a Canadian Man

It's 2017. I was just about in the best shape of my life, the day we headed for the airport. I work out. I have a physical "job," helping a friend renovate his house. (I had recently declared myself retired...never worked harder, or longer, or for less in my life.)

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William’s Quotes

“It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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