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Visit me at robertstanek.blogspot.com and williamrstanek.com / robertstanek.com

Hi, I'm William Stanek. Most who know me know that I've been writing for 40 odd years now and that my work has been published and/or distributed by every major US publisher, including Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pearson Education, Cengage Learning, Wiley, and HMH, and over 100 other publishers globally. 

Of the 20 million words in my professional books, many were written for Microsoft, where they were translated and localized for use in over 150 of the more than 200 countries where Microsoft operates. This combined with world-wide readership of my work, written as Robert Stanek, and millions taught in training courses that used my work made me one of the most widely read and popular authors in the world for several decades, so it is any wonder this blog like several others I attempted to maintain fell by the wayside. :)

Find news about my work and life at www.williamrstanek.com and www.robertstanek.com. Look also for my most popular blogs at robertstanek.blogspot.com and readindies.blogspot.com. 

Four new works to share now that I've officially passed the publishing mantle to my son, Will. Hope you'll read and support his endeavors as you have mine.





Thank you!

William Robert Stanek


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