William Hammes

William Hammes currently lives in Thousand Oaks, CA with his wife, Laila and their daughter, Emma. Before writing, Bill attended San Bernardino Valley College where his passion for extreme exotic architecture was nurtured. One of his instructors told him, “Bill, you’re never going to be an architect until you learn to build what you are designing.” He took that to heart, and one of his first construction projects was working on the Bob Hope Residence in Palm Springs, designed by the famed architect, John Lautner. After a short stay in John Lautner’s office, he continued in the construction field working on three more homes for Lautner, including John’s most famous and wildest, the Allen Levy residence in Malibu. One of Bill’s favorite projects was the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, in Pan Pacific Park, a twisting underground concrete structure designed by Hagy Belzberg. All of Bill’s projects were contemporary except for one, the French Ranch for Joel Shukovsky and Diane English.  It was Diane (of Murphy Brown fame) that read one of Bill's Christmas letters and suggested he write a novel. Since then Bill has written three novels in the Last Minute Redemption series, two children’s books, several allegories, and a screen play, along with the novel An Apology Gone Horribly Wrong being the first to be published.

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Bill is also very involved in his local church, which feeds Bill’s second writing passion, contemporary Christian allegories. Bill and Laila’s home away from home, is any campground along their way, which is Bill’s favorite place to write.