Coates

Coates, Bill

<div class="ExternalClassD1EFB5889A3648C8B0747FD7DD3CDF53"><h2>Meet local author Bill Coates.<br></h2><h3>Genre: Fiction<br></h3><h3>Title: <em>Rancho Javelina</em><br></h3><span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US"><div class="ExternalClassD1EFB5889A3648C8B0747FD7DD3CDF53"><span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US"><br></span></div>Bill Coates has worked at newspapers in the Phoenix area for some 30 years, along with a few breaks to write fiction. Newspapers, it turned out, paid better. Bill’s a Phoenix native, though – as an Air Force kid – he spent time in Nebraska and Guam. True, Arizona doesn’t have as much corn as one or as much ocean as the other, but it has plenty else. Desert. Mountains. A history of growth and conflict. More sun. More guns. More do-gooders. More rascals. More people afflicted by circumstance. And more circumstances to afflict them. And, lest I forget, more javelina. You won’t find javelina on a beach or in a cornfield.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></div><div class="ExternalClassD1EFB5889A3648C8B0747FD7DD3CDF53"><br><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"></span><p><span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US">Bill lives in South Phoenix with his wife, Cindy, and Maggie, their 15-year-old Shih-Tzu. He got the idea of a Javelina rescue ranch from a feature story he wrote about a desert sanctuary for pot-bellied pigs. Javelina, as those in the know will point out, are not pigs. But they make for a better story.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233279":true,"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> <br><br></span></p></div>

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"Ranch Javelina" by Bill Coates	"Ranch Javelina" by Bill Coates	https://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/images/Local Author Fair/Coates/LAF_Book_Coates_Rancho-Javelina_web.jpg	1028