Bill Fawcett (writer)
William B. Fawcett (born May 13, 1947) is an American editor, anthologist, game designer, book packager, fiction writer, and historian. Life. Fawcett and fellow science fiction writer Jody Lynn Nye were married in 1987. They met at a science fiction convention in 1985. At that time, Fawcett owned a gaming company in Niles, Illinois, and Nye began to work as a freelance writer for the company. Career. Bill Fawcett was one of the players in early "Dungeons & Dragons" games being played in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas, using photocopied prototypes of the rules handed out by Gary  Gygax. Darwin Bromley brought Fawcett on as a partner in Mayfair Games soon after the company was formed in 1980, and together they designed the game "Empire Builder" (1980). As a veteran role-playing gamer, Fawcett decided to get Mayfair into the RPG field, and the company kicked off its "Role Aids" game line with "Beastmaker Mountain" (1982). As a result of their connections with Mayfair, FASA was able to get a license to publish adventures (1982–1984) for Chaosium's "Thieves' World" role-playing game thanks to Fawcett's friendships with Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey. Fawcett and Jordan Weisman  designed the robot arena fighting game "Combots" (1983) for FASA. Fawcett produced the "Crossroads" books (1987–1988), a set of licensed gamebooks published by Tor. He edited the book "The War Years 1: The Far Stars War" (1990). With David Drake, he co-edited "The Fleet" series (1988-1991), as well as its sequels, "Battlestation, Book One" (1992), and "Battlestation, Book Two: Vanguard" (1993). As a book packager, Fawcett arranged a deal between Wizards of the Coast and HarperCollins to publish novels set in ""'s multiverse of Dominia; the first of these was "Arena" (1994). His 2008 book, "Oval Office Oddities , was described as Chock-full of information—trivia, anecdotes, charts, illustrations, etc." focusing on the lives of American presidents and their wives. Works. Fawcett and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro write mystery novels together under the pen name Quinn Fawcett. Fawcett was also a field historian for the Navy SEAL museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, and has co-authored work on the US Navy Seals in Vietnam.