Regarding process service, the rules of civil procedure describe what to do. This handy volume tells how to do it. The Practical Guide to Process Serving looks at the finer points of service, speaks in plain language, and offers realistic situations that may be encountered in the field. Written by a journalist who entered the profession, this book is a requisite read for the aspiring process server, the novice process server or anyone interested in the arcane world of process serving.
Wm. Stage has been a newspaper journalist / columnist and photographer for more than 30 years. Before that, he was a public health officer with the Centers for Disease Control assigned to the St. Louis Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic. He has taught photojournalism at Saint Louis University School for Professional Studies; and feature writing with the Defense Information School [DINFOS], Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. As of 2025, he has authored 16 books with the most recent, Down And Out In The River City, being his fifth novel. Wm. Stage lives in St. Louis with his wife, Mary, and their many unruly children.