William Wodhams lives in Vancouver with his wife and an ill-behaved dog. His first novel, Declan Tucker's Grand Debut, was published in December 2024. His second novel, Thirty Feet Under, was named a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Best Unpublished Crime novel award and was recently published by ECW Press.
William is an award-winning copywriter who has been inspiring people with the life-changing possibilities of cell phones, hamburgers and drywall for over twenty years. His stories have been published in The Globe and Mail, the Pigeon Review Art and Literary Journal, and have won recognition from Writer’s Digest and Crime Writers of Canada.
In this episode, William Wodhams shares his journey to publication, including extensive querying and eventual success with ECW Press, and explains how his research trip to Italy inspired his book's plot about art smuggling and an FBI art crimes team. We discuss the moral ambiguity of the art world and Bill's character development.