Bill Morris is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and author of fourteen books. His latest book, Derry's Vampire, is a literary journey through the underworld of vampires. It asks deep questions about love, hate, and that savage world of tooth and claw that our spirits spring from. And in the end examines the world-changing power of our relationships as vampires haunt and hurt all around in a daily quest for emotional blood.Bill has published many magazine articles and written as a software columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His first books were mainly in the computer field and he's been an acquisitions editor with Hayden Book Company, a trade computer book publisher. One of Bill's books of which he is most proud is Notes To a Five-Year-Old, (New Sun Publications) a group of essays, fatherly observations, and advice written for his daughter when she was five. He followed the success of this book with two more, The Red Jacket, a book written to help his daughter with the loss of her mother at age 15, and Good Morning, Ryan, a warm series of essays sketching the wonders and fun of his second daughter then turning five.