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The trivia-newspaper-column background story ...

In the early 1980s Wilson Casey began writing a weekly trivia column (Fri Entertainment Section) that ran in the Spartanburg (SC) Herald. With its popularity and the divine guidance of then-managing editor, Les Timms (deceased) --- Wilson's column was picked up and syndicated to hundreds of newspapers via Copley News Service, San Diego, CA. He did this for a couple - 3 years with his first book being published (TV Trivia Teasers, Pierian Press, Ann Arbor, MI), and then pursued other interests.

His passion for writing (2000) certainly got rekindled when then-managing editor of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Benjy Hamm (now with Landmark Community Newspapers in Louisville, KY) and executive editor, Carl Beck, provided him the opportunity to write and entertain readers once again!   Wilson jumped at the chance!

His daily 7x week trivia column started September 15, 2000 and is currently still being produced and runs everyday on Page A-2 in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, plus many others (partial listings below) across the USA.

With the success of being in the Spartanburg (SC) H-J, Wilson starting knocking on editors' doors around the country. His column was soon picked up by the News-Tribune in the Tacoma, WA and Seattle, OR area. This was a major-sized newspaper, perhaps Top 10 in the nation. Soon others (after Wilson's bulldog knocking-on-doors tenacity) started joining to carry his "TrivGuy" column. After awhile-- It spiked up to being in 55 papers across the US including many weeklies which attracted the attention and brought about a story in the online edition of E & P (Editor & Publisher).

Wilson believes that newspapers like to inform and to entertain.
"That's exactly what I provide via my TrivGuy columns".

For me, the perfect trivia question gets one of these responses:

* I know this!
* I used to know this, and think can remember it now!
* I don't know this, but think can figure it out!
* I didn't know that, but that sure is interesting!
* I didn't know that, but really should have!

More (coming) to this story including the setting of a couple Guinness World Records (Trivia and Radio Broadcasting), his 22 years of asking trivia questions on the radio, his signing with the largest syndicator in the world (King Features), upcoming Bible Trivia calendar and Bible Trivia book (both with Source Books), plus his battling wits with Ann Robinson as a celebrity contestant on "The Weakest Link"! - - - Please stay tuned!

Newspapers Around the Country Carrying Wilson Casey's Trivia Column!   Yours should, too!

Partial Listings Include . . . . . . .        Albuquergue Journal      Central City Republican-Nonpareil     Cherokee Chronicle      Chesnee Chronicle     The Courier      Creswell Chronicle      The Pasadena Citizen      1960 Sun Group      Atascocita Observer      Bellaire Examiner     The Citizen Bay Area      Cleveland Advocate      Copperfield Sun     Dayton News     Deer Park Broadcaster      Deer Park Progress      Eastex Advocate      East Montgomery Co Observer      Fort Bend/ Southwest Sun     Friendswood Journal     Greater Houston Weekly      Humble Observer     Idaho Falls Post Register    Katy Sun     King Features Weekly Services Network (Its list of papers carrying Wilson Casey's Trivia not individually listed here)     Kingwood Observer      Lake Houston Sentinel     Memorial Examiner      North Channel Sentinel      Pearland Journal      River Oaks Examiner      Spartanburg Herald-Journal       Spartanburg H-J Weekly      Spring Observer       The Potpourri       The Villager      Waller County News Citizen      West University Examiner

(For Wilson Casey's credentials, please click here)