{"id":259,"date":"2016-04-16T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:13:21","slug":"about-william-scott-morrison","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/about-william-scott-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">William &#8220;Scot<a href=\"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bio-photo-for-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-397 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bio-photo-for-cover-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"bio photo for cover\" width=\"215\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a>t&#8221; Morrison has been chasing the get-rich-quick American Dream for many decades while writing stories and songs on the side. Now in his late youth, he is channeling a lifelong interest in politics and history into telling the story of the times through historical fiction. <em>Luck of the Draw<\/em>, his second novel, follows the lives of the same characters who in his first novel, <em>The Energy Caper, or Nixon in the Sky with Diamonds<\/em>, thrive in a luckier world where there was no Vietnam war. He lives quietly with his wife in the wine country of California.<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed account of what&#8217;s going on here at Computicator2,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/what-is-a-computicator\/\"> see the first post on this blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">************************************************************<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/kickstarter\"><strong>Castalia Communications<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lady-no-shadow-blue-300x157.png\" alt=\"Lady-no-shadow-blue\" width=\"155\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lady-no-shadow-blue-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lady-no-shadow-blue-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lady-no-shadow-blue-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lady-no-shadow-blue-459x240.png 459w, https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lady-no-shadow-blue.png 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morrison is also the founder of Castalia Communications, which is known for innovative music education posters and other items. <em>The<\/em> <em>Guitar Poster&#x2122;<\/em> was published in 1980 and the headline for the ads was:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Puts the Answers on Your Wall!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/guitar-poster-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"guitar-poster\" width=\"222\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/guitar-poster-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.castaliapub.com\/williamscottmorrison\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/guitar-poster.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The<\/em> <em>Guitar Poster<\/em> led to other educational posters for keyboard, rock guitar, electric bass, saxophone, and music theory. 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Morrison has been chasing the get-rich-quick American Dream for many decades while writing stories and songs on the side. Now in his late youth, he is channeling a lifelong interest in politics and history into telling the story of the times through historical fiction. 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