About William Joseph
Author William Joseph was born and raised in the state of New Jersey, USA. William Joseph is also an internationally published photographer, Owner of MyAlternative Magazine and a graphic designer. Always imaginative and loving to tell stories, he began writing at a very young age. It wasn't until he began writing his first story, "THIS IS WAR," in 2008 though that he felt like he finally had a story that was worth telling. It took six years to complete the novel having finished it in 2014 shortly after graduating college twice with two associate degrees, one in Liberal Arts and one in Social Science.
He took a few years going back and forth rewriting parts of "THIS IS WAR," until independently publishing it. Due to length, "THIS IS WAR," was split into a three part series with Part One releasing on August 27th, 2017, Part Two released on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 2017, and Part Three released on February 24th, 2018. A Complete Series Special Edition was released on July 16th 2018 of all three books combined together as originally intended with added Author Notes and an Epilogue.
Author William Joseph also independently published his short story Jeremiah on January 28th, 2018.
Author William Joseph's YA book "Of Vultures and Kings," was originally released in both e-book and paperback formats on April 17th 2018 with a small publishing company. He re-released it independently in April of 2020 with a brand new cover design.
On November 14th 2018, CHBB Publishing released Author William Joseph's Young Adult Paranormal Horror novel, "The House on the Hill." It reached #6 in the USA and #7 in the UK on Amazon's Best Seller list for Young Adult Horror and came in #2nd Place for Favorite Thriller in the Lelene Service Awards.
On December 12th 2018, William Joseph and other Author's in the "Horror Author's Carnival Facebook Group" teamed up and released a Christmas-Horror themed Anthology. It was #1 on Amazon's Hot New Releases for Horror Anthologies. William Joseph's story and contribution to the Anthology is titled "Breeze Place."
On March 26th 2019, William Joseph's Horror Novel "Carnival of Terror," released. It reached as high as #14 on Amazon's Top 100 Hot New Releases.
In a limited release Anthology during 2019, William Joseph's short story "Alpha," released in the Kiss Me, Kill Me Anthology where all proceeds were donated to American Forests.
On May 5th 2020, "Maroon" was released.
On June 29th 2020, William Joseph's short story "The Descent," was published in the Dark Hollow Lake Collection One series with several other authors by Cruel Ink Publishing. Since then, the collective project has disbanded and his story can be found on Kindle Vella.
On October 23rd 2020, William Joseph released his Occult Horror novel "Leviathan."
In February 2021 William Joseph parted ways with CHBB Publishing to go fully independent.
On June 14th 2022 William Joseph released "Crazy Little Toy."
In December of 2022 "Carnival of Terror" reached #6 on Amazon's Best Seller list in Horror Suspense thanks to the help of the Facebook Group "Books of Horror."
On May 30th 2023 William Joseph released "The Hangman's Forest" which reached as high as #21 on Amazon's Best Seller list for Horror Suspense during the Pre-Order phase.
On February 4th 2024 William Joseph released the sequel to his YA book "Of Vultures and Kings" called "The Winter Raven."
On March 26th 2024 William Joseph released the sequel to his most popular book, "Carnival of Terror" called "Carnival of Terror 2: Jug's Revenge."
On April 18th 2024 William Joseph released a terrifying stand-a-lone book titled, "Peek-A-Boo."
On June 18th 2024 William Joseph release a hotly anticipated Erotic-Serial Killer Thriller book titled, "Alpha."
William Joseph has dozens of other novels, plays, short stories and anthologies in the works. Stay tuned and up to date via his social media sites to get up to date breaking news and updates about future releases and project completions.