User:Bill Hood

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Greetings. My main interests here are photography, writing, screenprinting, serigraphy, art, law, travel. If there are articles in these areas that you'd like me to consider creating, go ahead and leave me a note on my talk page.

Special Wikipedia issues: I travel extensively, currently living in Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico; Pondicherry, India and Austin, Texas, USA. So my IP address changes quite often, so while you may see that I use shared IP addresses, I always log in using my User Name to make corrections to Wikipedia. Any corrections from a shared IP address, which do not have my specific User Name are not my doing. I am very careful to make only factional corrections to entries.

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Bill Hood (born October 12, 1945) is a screenprint consultant, journalist, writer, and artist. Born in Hobart, Oklahoma, he was educated at Lee College and Sam Houston State University in Texas. He currently splits his time between his residencies in Austin, Texas, Pondicherry, India and Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Hood is the author of over a dozen books, including “50 Ways to Increase Your Business,” which was originally published in Solutions Journal,[1] an online screenprinting journal, before being published as the first eBook in the screenprinting industry. Other titles include "Charlie's Secret," "The Fraud Handbook" and "The One Secret to Success." He is the author of the internationally syndicated column "This Week I Learned" since 1995. Today it is read by over 30,000 subscribers worldwide. He has published over 500 technical articles on screenprinting that have appeared in Solutions Journal, Impressions Magazine, Printwear and most recently Images Magazine published in the United Kingdom.

Always a workaholic, Hood also excels as an artist. He was educated and has been successful as a fine arts painter, painting mostly landscapes and skyscapes. Hood also does pen and ink drawings in a stipple technique that can take hundreds of hours to complete. He is an internationally recognized jewelry designer, having twice placed in the top at the prestigious Diamonds International Awards, which is the most prestigious jewelry award ever. It is termed the "Oscars" of jewelry industry. Hood has also won numerous awards as a photographer, editorial cartoonist, designer and inventor.