(Updated Dec 2025)
B. Alan Bourgeois began telling stories at twelve, handwriting speculative scripts for the TV show Adam-12 as a way to find his voice. A published short story from a 1989 community-college class pulled him fully back into writing, and he never really stopped. Since then, he has written more than forty-eight short stories—several award-winners—and published over ten books across fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning spiritual thriller Extinguishing the Light and a growing “Top Ten Series for Authors” that demystifies the business and craft of publishing. In the 2000s he founded Creative House Press and Creative House Kids Press, publishing sixty books in five years and seeing firsthand that most authors were being failed not by their talent, but by marketing and a rigged industry.
In 2011, Bourgeois began fixing that problem for Texas writers by founding the Texas Authors Association, which evolved into the Texas Authors Museum and Texas Authors Institute of History (TAIH). Through DEAR Texas, statewide reading programs, the Lone Star Festival, the Authors School of Business, True Voice Reviews, ReadSafe Ratings, and the Indie Beacon / ASB Authors Showcase, he has spent more than a decade building an ecosystem that documents, protects, and promotes human-authored books in an AI-crowded world. Marking fifty years since he first scribbled Adam-12 scripts, he continues to write across genres, fight for fair pay and visibility for authors, and build the Texas Authors Museum as his long-term legacy.
