Hi, I’m Willie…

Hello, I’m Willie D. “Will” Smith, an author and graphic artist in Manchester, Tennessee. I live here with my wife Valarie, and am the author of three books to date, and working on my second graphic novel project.

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  • New promo video for “The Vampire Squad: Renfield – Book Two”
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  • Update on “The Vampire Squad”
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    I now have 29 pages drawn, scanned and loaded for ‘The Vampire Squad: Renfield – Book Two”. I’m almost half-way through. My goal is 70-75 pages.
  • The Vampire Squad – Renfield Book Two
    by Willie Smith
    Work is progressing on my current project, which is Book Two of my Renfield graphic novel series. The story picks up from where Renfield – Book One: Malcolm (Amazon.com) left off. In Book One, member of Chicago gangter Frank Nitti’s gang had roughed up a man, Edward McGregor, over a gambling debt at Capone’s former headquarters, The Four Deuces. When Edward shows them a handful of gold Spanish Doubloons – and tells them there’s more in a local crypt – they agree to help him get it. Unbeknownst to them, the crypt holds a terrible secret. The vampire Malcolm McGregor… Read more: The Vampire Squad – Renfield Book Two
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The Barker-Karpis Gang

The Barker-Karpis Gang

According to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Ma Barker was the “brains” of the Barker-Karpis gang. Was she really? Or did Hoover invent the myth of Ma Barker to cover up the truth about her death at the hands of his G-Men in Florida? For five years (1931 – 1936) the Barker-Karpis gang terrorized the Midwest with a series of bank robberies, murders, and two major kidnappings, until the FBI’s final violent gun battle at Ocklawaha Florida in January 1935, and the subsequent capture of Alvin Karpis the following year. This is the definitive history of the last great outlaw gang of the 1930’s with a great deal of never-before seen information and photographs. It is a MUST read for fans of prohibition era and depression era crime, true crime, organized crime, and gangsters of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Ghostly Tales of the Southland

Ghostly Tales of the Southland

Take a trip through the Southern U.S. as we visit some of the haunted locations in the country, from the famous Bell Witch cave in Adams, Tennessee to the old Missouri State Penitentiary, the Lemp mansion in St. Louis, and on to the mysterious and spooky city of New Orleans – home of the infamous Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau. There is something for everyone as we examine the Ghostly Tales of the Southland!
Renfield

Renfield: Book 1: Malcolm

Dr. Reginald Myles Renfield is quite familiar with vampires, especially since his father, R. M. Renfield, was murdered by Count Dracula years earlier in London when he was only ten years old. That was in 1897.

FAST FORWARD TO 1930’S CHICAGO
Dr. Renfield is now an assistant coroner for the Chicago Medical Examiner’s Office. Three of Mob Boss Frank Nitti’s men are found brutally murdered in a local cemetery. Their throats are ripped out and their bodies are drained of blood. Dr. Renfield recognizes this as the work of a vampire – MALCOLM McGREGOR – whom Nitti’s men inadvertently freed while robbing a crypt.

To stop this monster, Dr. Renfield joins forces with the Chicago Police Department, Nitti’s Chicago Outfit, and two mysterious women out to avenge the murder of their sister.

It’s a race against time to find and destroy 30 coffins Malcolm had hidden through the city in a twisted and deadly game of ‘Cat and Mouse’.