William D. Skees
Writer, poet, essayist, sailor, delivery captain, computer scientist, advisor to presidential appointees, professional photographer, mathematician, painter, and recording artist.
Author of the Rayanne, Noor and Sandy Mysteries:

Death Picks a Blue Palette
(available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com)
and

Death In Aquamarine
(also available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com)
Visit the Rayanne, Noor and Sandy Fan Club
—Podcasts of the author reading from his books—
Interview with Bill Skees
Click Here to See Sandoval County Signpost Interview of March 2009
Other books by William D. Skees
Fiction:

A Blush of Maidens, A Foolishness of Old Men—Short Stories, Essays and Poems
The small-town South and tobacco land. Incest, suicide, love, old men, old ways, Blacks, white folks, the Nixon administration from inside, travelling behind the Iron Curtain. Life ashore and at sea. Making fine art. WWII homecoming. Short stories, poems and essays in the manner of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty.
(available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com)
and
The Owners—Life & Death Among the Yachties 
(soon to be released)
Art Books and Non-fiction:
Body Abstracts/Pregnant Nudes 
(fine art—soon to be released)
and

A Nikon D1x Reference Manual
For The Creative Photographer (e-book)
William D. Skees D1X Book Chapter 1 (PDF format)
Non-fiction (out of print, available online):
—Podcasts of the author reading from "Blush of Maidens"—
visit the Rayanne, Noor and Sandy fan club
visit Bill Skees's fine art images