(Bio 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. He never mailed them in—but the practice lit a fuse. Like a lot of kids of his generation, he was told to “be practical” and chase degrees, not dreams, so writing went to the back burner for a while.
In 1989 a community-college writing class blew the lid back off. A short story from that class was published, and Bourgeois never really stopped after that. 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.
Seeing the early indie-publishing wave coming, Bourgeois founded Creative House Press and Creative House Kids Press in the 2000s, publishing sixty books in five years for authors and artists around the world. That experience made something brutally clear: most authors weren’t failing because of their writing, but because of marketing, discoverability, and a rigged system.
In 2011 he answered that problem for Texas writers by founding the Texas Authors Association, which evolved into today’s Texas Authors Museum and Texas Authors Institute of History (TAIH). Through DEAR Texas (Drop Everything And Read Texas), statewide reading programs, and the first online museum dedicated to Texas authors, he has spent more than a decade building infrastructure that remembers, documents, and actively promotes the state’s literary talent instead of letting it disappear.
Along the way he has launched short story contests, student programs, and the Lone Star Festival—an event that brings together authors, musicians, artists, and filmmakers. He created the Authors Marketing Event and later a marketing certification track, connecting writers with film, TV, and podcast professionals and giving them tangible credentials for the business side of their work. He also founded the Indie Beacon Show (later ASB Authors Showcase), interviewing authors from around the world long before “author podcasts” became trendy.
COVID-19 crushed many of his in-person programs and revenue streams, but it didn’t stop the work. Bourgeois pivoted into what is now an integrated ecosystem for writers: the Authors School of Business and related initiatives under the TAIH banner, including editorial reviews (True Voice Reviews), content-clarity tools (ReadSafe Ratings), and verification efforts protecting human-authored books in an AI-crowded market. He keeps a close eye on emerging tech—from NFTs to new distribution models—only adopting what actually serves authors and readers instead of chasing hype.
In 2025, Bourgeois marks fifty years since that kid sat down to write Adam-12 scripts. He’s older, sharper, and more relentless than ever—still writing across genres (including political thrillers, spiritual fiction, children’s stories, and LGBTQ+ narratives), still fighting for fair pay and visibility for authors, and still building the Texas Authors Museum as his long-term legacy. Whatever comes next in publishing, you can safely assume he’ll be out in front, testing it, translating it, and helping other authors use it to build real, sustainable careers.