What I’m doing here.

I’ve always thought that it’s good to live life with passion. Well, I have several passions. One of them is my painting; when I have a brush in my hand and I smear paint onto a canvas, the rest of the world doesn’t exist. Another passion is writing. When, in my best moments, I’m scribbling ideas in my sketchbook or writing on my computer, my mind only focuses on my verbal creation. 

But writing is different for me. Yes, writing is a passion, but it’s also a profession that I’ve practiced since 1964, when I wrote reports as a counter-intelligence operative with the U.S. Army in Germany. Then I was a police reporter for The Humboldt Times in Eureka, Calif., a newsman and editor for the Associated Press in Reno, Nev., Los Angeles and Washington, DC, and a business correspondent in Paris and a magazine editor for McGraw-Hill. Then, I practiced the craft of marketing, which includes a big dose or writing, for high-tech companies and Henkel, a major chemical company.  

During all of those years, I was constantly writing novels in my free time, at first clumsily but with increasing skill, to such a level that I felt confident self-publishing “The Picasso Paradigm” (available on Amazon).   

Now, with the worldwide web and my new blog William Kosman Fiction, I can share my writing directly with you. First, I’ll present to you – one chapter per week –of “It Hurts to Say Goodbye” and then “The Thirty Percent Solution,” the two novels I wrote to take my mind off the COVID pandemic. 

I wish you good reading. Best, 

Bill

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