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William D. Skees:

Bill is the author of four books on computer technology and a collection of Southern short stories, poems and essays entitled A Blush of Maidens, A Foolishness of Old Men; and the Rayanne, Noor and Sandy mystery series, including volume I, Death Picks a Blue Palette.

He was known among his undergraduate college classmates as the poet laureate of St. Benedict's. He has degrees in mathematics and psychology with minors in English and history, and just missed getting a doctorate in Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence by one dissertation. He currently teaches math and English at Colorado Mountain College — Alpine Campus in Steamboat Springs.

Bill's career outside the university includes computer programming, international computing consulting — with assignments in Russia, Brazil, the U.K., Mexico, Poland and Italy — fine art photography and sailboat delivery as professional captain, primarily on the East Coast and in the Caribbean. His fashion and pregnant nude photographs were included in the 2005 Artists Tour of North Routt County.

The following is an excerpt from his second mystery novel in a series about three women adventurers, the sailor-artist Rayanne and her buddies avant-garde photographer Noor and former U. S. Marine Sandy:

'Into her ears, here, in the shadow of the dinghy, under water where it should have been all peace, came the ringing, vengeful screams that could only have been Noor. The dinghy gave a lunge. The side she was hanging from swung around into black shadow of the larger boat's hull. Oh, she hoped it would knock her out, bring her oblivion, bring her peace. If only she could trade places with Sandy, if only she could be the one dragged to the bottom with the lead keel, the one to die.'

©skees 2005

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