William Fietzer is an author, blogger, and retired librarian who has published academic, newspaper, and online articles and stories about librarianship, the Twin Cities, the Hudson Valley, and the national cultural scene.

His first two novels, Penal Fires and Metadata Murders, examined America’s underworld of class, crime, and technology. His third and fourth novels, the supernatural thrillers Mission: Soul Rescue and Mission: Soul Sacrifice, investigate our spiritual and cultural realities.