Guy Smith | December 1, 2009
faith, n. Tactical truth avoidance. As a writer and political junkie, I stand amused, bemused, offended and (very) occasionally amazed at the way my language is manipulated, manhandled and forcefully deflowered. Politicians – the world’s original liars – have desensitized me to all the common linguistic spin cycles, and it is a cold, cold day [...]
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Guy Smith | November 8, 2009
It is good to have low friends in high places, and high friends in low places. I doubt Chris Muir ever gets high, and his humor is never low, thus he cannot be pigeon holed … kinda like former cowboys living in San Francisco. Common classification schemes just don’t work. Grateful I am though for [...]
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Guy Smith | August 7, 2009
A recent review of AFTERLIFE said (and I paraphrase) “I wish the book was longer.” AFTERLIFE is a novella, and thus condemned to abbreviated stature. It is novella length for one simple reason: that was all it took to tell the story well. I’m loathe mindlessly padding stories in order make it novel length and [...]
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Guy Smith | August 5, 2009
My novella Afterlife seems pretty lively. Litblog reviews have started to come in, with one today that was positively glowing. Lupa at Pagan Book reviews wrote about Afterlife: I think I just found one of the best works of fiction I’ve been sent since I started this review blog-and I’ve reviewed everything from self-published works [...]
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Guy Smith | May 21, 2009
Order at Amazon.com Publishing a book is like giving birth to an elephant: It takes a long time, hurts like hell and is accompanied with a lot of ear splitting noise. But it is done. Afterlife is now on the market. Order a thousand copies today. After death, one soon discovers that every theologian was [...]
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