Questions about Bill and his work

I wrote Bill an email and haven't heard from him. Wassup with that?
Your email might have gotten lost in cyberspace, so you may want to write again. But more likely, because Bill gets hundreds of emails per week, he sometimes finds it hard to keep up and it may have slipped through the cracks or still be waiting on the flight deck to be answered. Again, please write again.

I called Bill or wrote him a letter and haven't heard back from him. Why not?
Bill travels a great deal and his time at home is precious. He is also a little phone-phobic. Email is way better. It can be responded to at any time and is more time-manageable than phone calls, which can take from a few seconds to much longer. Writing letters is a lost art and Bill hopes it stays lost. It takes much less time to write an email than write a letter, find the address, print out the letter, find an envelope, put a stamp on it, put it in the mailbox. Geez, it's exhausting just writing all that. Email is way better.

I would like Bill to:
a. read my dissertation
b. co-write a book with me
c. let me be his gardener
d. hang out with me when I am in Santa Fe
e. write a blurb for my forthcoming book
f. tell me all about solution-oriented therapy for a class paper I am writing
g. mentor me
h. etc., etc.

a.-d. Sorry to disappoint, but Bill is very busy and guards his personal time fiercely. If he didn't he wouldn't have much of a personal life. Bill has been blessed with a fertile imagination and has outlines for many books on his computer and is not looking for collaborations. He doesn't have much time to read even very worthy dissertations.

e. Bill writes very few blurbs out of the hundreds of books he is sent each year, but he does a few. Contact him by sending an email to this address (PossiBill-249285@autocontactor.com) to receive instructions for how to make it more likely he will give you a blurb.

f. That is why Bill has written 28 books and 54 articles. Please do your research and look at those before you write to ask questions. You will probably find what you are looking for in one or more of those books or articles or on the Internet. It is even easier with the Internet and inter-library loans. After you have done your legwork, then you can write and ask some follow-up questions.

g. Mentoring is a mysterious process and does not usually result from deliberate applications for the position of protegé or mentor. If it happens, it happens, as it has only several times in the past, but Bill does not take applicants for this position.

h. Use your imagination for other requests/interests after reading these FAQs.

Wow, Bill has done a lot of things, travels a lot and has written a lot of books. He must never sleep.
Bill usually sleeps quite well, thank you. He likes to sleep a good 8 hours a night. He is just very energetic and stimulated by taking on new projects. He works fast when he works and is profoundly languid and lazy when he doesn't, often reading four or five leisure books a week when he's on a tear. He also plays guitar and piano, watches lots of movies, exercises regularly (except when he doesn't) and likes to go for walks and play fetch with his dog, The Biscuit (a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel-cutest dog in the world!). Bill participated in raising three step-children and one biological child, who are all grown and on their own and didn't sleep as much during that era, but he is getting plenty of sleep now.

Can I see or call Bill O'Hanlon for therapy?
Sorry, Bill is not available to do therapy. He's trying very hard to have a life.

I was at a workshop Bill gave and I have a sense we could be great friends.
It may be so, but Bill's is barely able to keep up with the friends he has. Also, Bill wears his magic charisma power pack at workshops and seminars; he is much more dull and boring in everyday life, really. Truly, it's difficult to be charming and charismatic 24 hours a day. Bill has the same sense of enthusiasm and connection when he hears a good presenter, but he knows enough from the other side that it is probably an artifact of the magic of the moment. Give it some time and this sense will very likely fade. No offense intended.

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How can I get in touch with Bill?
You can contact Bill through Possibilities/O'Hanlon and O'Hanlon,Inc., email him at PossiBill@aol.com
Bill prefers you not call him. He's doing what he can to have a life outside his work.

I want to hire Bill and pay him outrageous amounts of money to do a workshop, keynote address, training, consultation or talk for my group, my company, my association, my church group, my posse, my Ya-Ya Sisters and me, my book club, my [fill in the blank].
Click the tab for the page "How to hire Bill" to find out everything that needs knowing in this area. You might check the schedule to see if Bill is officially booked for your dates before you get all hot and bothered.