Bill Stephens

Bill Stephens’ blog is perpetually a “Publisher’s Marketplace Top 10 Blog.” Thousands have subscribed to his website, where they read his serialized novel, Horizons Past. Currently, Horizons Past is under consideration for film adaptation by a major Hollywood producer.

Bill has written over 1,000 weekly food and wine columns for Harte-Hanks, Murdoch, and Hearst newspapers. His features appear in Wine News, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Spectator, Food & Wine, Chef, and Field & Stream. Bill’s short story, “The Decanter, A Christmas Story,” is the only piece of fiction ever published in The Wine News. Texas A&M University recently published his short story, “Toby Tire and His Erratic Curve Ball,” in their English Department’s “Big TEX(t)” Ezine. His food service essays appear regularly in My Table Magazine and on his blog about restaurants.

Bill has traveled the world, designing and selling specialized construction equipment on the largest dams, tunnels, bridges, and high-rise buildings. He was responsible for introducing consumer-style advertising into construction periodicals. While the product Manager for Symons Mfg. Company, he supervised over 500 salesmen that were located all over the country. He personally took responsibility for marketing, advertising, public relations, and sales in each of his own companies.

He currently operates a successful Internet marketing company and consults for restaurants with his company, Bill Stephens Associates.

As a wine and food writer, Bill has visited wine-growing areas of Australia, France, Spain, South America, Germany, and the United States. He developed and imported his own wine brands from California, Australia, and New Zealand, and he also developed and marketed his own brands of beer (Sportz Beer) and tequila (Don Sergio Tequila).

As a food service entrepreneur, Bill has built a business empire that has grown to include two tablecloth restaurants; three airline in-flight kitchens; three employee-feeding facilities; catering of a dinner train, and he was the third largest off-premise caterer in South Texas. His notable catering clients included Texas governors, presidential candidates, the family of the King of Saudi Arabia, the Prince of Wales, Pope John Paul II, Tom Jones, Neal Diamond, Willie Nelson, and many others

Bill is a graduate of The University of Texas and has studied creative writing at Trinity University, San Antonio. As an avid outdoorsman, he has hunted and fished from Alaska to Mexico and has ridden his Harley Davidson Motorcycle coast-to-coast, border-to- border, and more than 12,000 miles in Mexico. He lives in Texas with his wife and her four cats. To visit his book website, click here.

Bill Stephens can be reached at —–

16809 Springhill
San Antonio, Texas 98232
Phone 210-496-5880 Fax 210-495-2449

billstephens at satx dot rr dot com