Prior to starting this novel, during a bout of depression, Williams entered a 42-day program at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.

A longtime friend, Miriam Linna, suggested that he try his hand at fiction writing to while away the long days ahead at the center.

He began writing everything down, and with Linna's editorial help, he was able to transform his rehabilitation process into the novelette, short story and song-poems comprising Sweets.

The adventures that follow are a free-for-all foray through the fantastic world of pimps and their women, funeral directors, gangs and drug running, with sidebar anecdotes that are guaranteed to appall, alarm and astonish.

Extreme entries remained unedited, and none of William's raw drawl storytelling style has been tampered in this standout fiction debut.