I am an independent author and publisher based in Racine, Wisconsin, and I run Keith Williams LLC, a veteran-owned small business. I write the Word Search for Baby Boomers series and I build the playlists on this site.
Why I make these
I kept buying large-print puzzle books that were neither large nor interesting. The type was 9 point with “LARGE PRINT” on the cover. The word lists were generic — forty books from the same publisher, the same words shuffled. And nothing in them gave you a reason to care about the words you were finding.
Music fixes that. If you lived through 1965, “Help Me Rhonda” is not a string of letters, it is a summer. So I built the books out of the actual charts rather than a puzzle generator’s dictionary, set the grids at 15 point, and made sure no song title ever appears twice in a volume.
The Challenge Puzzle came out of the same impatience. A standard word search is pattern recognition; it does not ask you to think. I wanted a puzzle in the same book that did, without requiring anyone to learn a new format from scratch — so every one of them has its instructions printed on the facing page.
How the books are built
I do the chart research, the song-pool construction, the puzzle generation and the typesetting myself. The Challenge Puzzles are generated and then verified by an exhaustive solver that proves each one has exactly one answer — a puzzle that cannot be proved unique does not go in the book. I would rather throw away a puzzle than print one that cannot be finished.
My other books
I have been publishing since 2024, in two areas outside puzzles.
The ABC’s of A1C: 5 Simple Rules For Better Blood Sugar Control
A plain-language guide to understanding and lowering A1C, written for people who have just been handed a number by their doctor and told to do something about it.
Navigating Child Support
A state-by-state self-help series for parents dealing with the child support system without a lawyer. Written from the position most people are actually in: representing themselves, against an agency that does this every day.
The Florida Edition on Amazon · navigatingchildsupport.com
The puzzle series
- Word Search for Baby Boomers: Songs of the Sixties
- Word Search for Baby Boomers: Songs of the Seventies — in production
- Word Search for Baby Boomers: Songs of the Eighties — in production
- Word Search for Baby Boomers: Songs of the Nineties — in production
- Word Search for Baby Boomers: Four Decades — in production
The playlists
Every puzzle in the series has a matching Spotify playlist, free to open and free to listen to with an ad-supported account. They all live here, permanently, so the codes printed in the books keep working after the book is off the press.
Get in touch
I answer my own email. If you find a typo, a broken playlist or a puzzle you think is wrong, I want to hear about it — corrections go into the next printing. Contact page.