Good Morning, Ryan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615609263)

Bill Morris is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and author of twelve books. One of Bill's books of which he is most proud is Notes To a Five-Year-Old, a group of essays, fatherly observations, and advice written for his daughter when she was five. He has also published two additional books of family essays, The Red Jacket, essays for his daughter about her mother who was lost to cancer, and Good Morning, Ryan, a book of humor, insights, and vignettes of childhood for his second five-year-old daughter, Ryan Rosemary. His latest book, The Astral Zoo, is a novel that describes the life of zoo animals who live in freedom in the zoo as astral beings, living as animals struggling for meaning in a potentially meaningless place. Bill has published many magazine articles and written as a software columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His books are mainly in the computer field and he's been an acquisitions editor with Hayden Book Company, a trade computer book publisher. His first novel, Grey Goddess, about California mysticism, surfing, and the search for lost spirit, received excellent reviews and praise around the world. Surfing magazine said, "A true but comical depiction of the surfing lifestyle, Bill Morris has hit the lip with his book Grey Goddess!" Grey Goddess has sold in surfing and water-related sports stores throughout the United States and abroad. Reviewers have compared it to Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Golf in the Kingdom, and even Siddartha.