Welcome to the Middle of Knowhere

WELCOME! I am your host, the magnificent William A. Hainline, author of science fiction and fantasy extraordinaire. I’ve been building this site slowly but surely here in my web-design lair. Muwhahaha. Abandon all hope ye who enter here! All shall love me and despair! And GODDAMN IT, DADDY— YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU! — BUT YOU GOTTA HELLUVA LOT TO LEARN ABOUT ROCK ‘N ROLL!

I write novels that don't quite fit in one box, which is either a feature or a bug depending on who you ask.

I live in Southern Indiana with my cat, who has opinions about my writing schedule and expresses them primarily by sitting on the keyboard during the good parts. I studied English, Computer Science, and the arcane interdisciplinary field known as Fucking Around at Indiana University Southeast, and I have spent the subsequent decade-plus combining all three in approximately equal measure.

The result is five novels.

There's The Wizards Code, which is epic fantasy for people who've ever looked at a magic system and thought: wait, but what are the actual rules. Then there’s Valken, another rich epic fantasy, but of an altogether different vibe. There's The Reality Engineers, about four university students who built impossible technology in a basement and accidentally became the most dangerous team on the planet. There's Got the Magic Power, a dark comedy about a band who discovers that the music industry has been literally harvesting human creativity for a crystal dimension, and decides to do something about it. And there's They Came from Transylvania Community College, which is a gothic horror novel about grief, resurrection, and the specific category of bad decision that starts with love and ends with an ancient interdimensional predator loose between worlds.

I said they don't fit in one box. I meant it.

I write the kind of fiction I wanted to find and couldn't always — stories that take their ideas seriously without taking themselves too seriously, with characters who are smart and scared and funny and occasionally on fire. The books are published through Amazon and Draft2Digital, and I am findable and moderately sociable on Facebook if you want to follow along, argue about genre fiction, or simply watch someone try to finish five manuscripts before the cat destroys the keyboard entirely.

Welcome. Pull up a chair. The coffee's on.