Mark D. Williams is a nationally-recognized authority on sports
and the outdoors (flyfishing, fishing, hiking, mountain biking,
backpacking, camping and outdoor photography). Williams has written for
deadline situations as a journalist and columnist for over a decade and
has written freelance for numerous national magazines and newspapers
(including Dallas Morning News, SPORT Magazine, Baseball Digest, Texas
Rangers' Program, Cowboys and Indians, Southwest Fly Fishing,
Backpacker, Flyfishing and Flytying Journal, Bass Pro Shop's
www.Outdoorsite.com , and Orvis News to name a few). Mark has written a
regular outdoors sports / outdoors column for The Amarillo Globe News
for five years and has had a nationally syndicated fantasy sports
column.
Mark has
written six books: Trout Fishing Sourcebook (Menasha Ridge Press), The
Backpacking Angler (Menasha Ridge Press), Freshwater Flyfishing Tips
from the Pros (Fireside / Simon & Schuster), Flyfishing Southwestern
Colorado (Wayfinder Press), Knots for Flyfishers (Menasha Ridge Press)
and Top 100 Mountain Vacations of North America (Willow Creek Press) and
is presently finishing the authorized biography of Juan Gonzalez,
All-Star MLB outfielder (Harper Entertainment Books), and writing
Flyfishing South Central Colorado (Wayfinder Press), Flyfishing
Northeastern New Mexico (Wayfinder Press) and Secrets of Passing
Strangers: Bedside Diaries of the Strater.
Member of Texas
Outdoor Writers Association (TOWA ). Award Winning Book for Flyfishing
Southwestern Colorado (Outdoor Book of the Year 1998), Freshwater
Flyfishing Tips from the Pros (Outdoor Book of the Year 1999)
Mark has co-hosted radio shows on the outdoors and general sports and is
a regular expert guest on the outdoors and baseball on several stations
(especially in Texas and Colorado.) Mark gives 20 to 25 seminars, slide
shows and book signings annually to bookstores, conventions, schools,
businesses, flyshops and over the years, has taught thousands of anglers
how to fly fish.
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