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James Robert Smith

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About Me

50 years old, I work for the USPS as a letter carrier. I spend all of my free time writing, reading, hiking, and backpacking. I hit our national and state parks, forests, and wilderness areas as often as possible.As an author, I've sold more than fifty short stories. I've worked in the comic book industry, also.I currently live in Matthews, NC with my wife and son.My first novel, The Flock, was published in August 2006 by Five Star Publishing. I've also created and co-edited the anthology EVERMORE, which is available from Arkham House Books. I also have a movie deal in the works.You can find my personal website at www.jamesrobertsmith.net

My Interests

Writing. Reading. Backpacking. Forest preservation. Roadless areas.

The Dry Tortugas National Park

Music:

I still enjoy listening to the work of Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Difford & Tillbrook, Madness, Bad Manners, etc. Currently, I rather enjoy the music of Buck Owens.

Movies:

I occasionally see films with my son. Generally action films and horror movies.

Television:

I don't watch television.

Books:

I'm a voracious reader. Some of my favorite authors are Charles Bukowski, Barry Gifford, Charles Portis, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson.

Heroes:

Ernest Thompson Seton, Richard Leakey. ..

Black Mountain Campground

My Blog

The Return of the Subliminal Snowman

Well, I opened the catalog with the sexually suggestive cover. And what do I find inside? I don't know who took these shots, but this photographer is my new hero....
Posted by James Robert Smith on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:27:00 PST

Grassy’s Frozen Again

When I was a kid, my parents moved their dwindling family to the mountains of northern Georgia. Despite the fact that we were in the northern fourth of the state, and that we were near some of the hig...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:24:00 PST

Omnipotent...Not!

For quite a while I've been hard at work on my novel, Beautiful Boy. As many writers will tell you, novels and the characters in them can quite often get away from the author and generate what seems t...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:14:00 PST

The Subliminal Snowman

This came in the mail. It was so over the top I felt I had to post it. (Considering the short story I posted two days ago, at the risk of starting a thematic trend.) At any rate, here it is:...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:01:00 PST

Gee! Thanks!

My parents were certainly not the best. But one thing that I always appreciated about them is that they did not expose me to religion. So that by the time I had to face that stuff at the age of eight,...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:47:00 PST

"Sixteen and."

A Short Story ByJames Robert SmithCopyright 2007When I was in the tenth grade I rode the school bus for a great portion of each of my days. I tell people that we lived far out in the woods, but no one...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:09:00 PST

Joker/Beetljuice

Is it just me...or do these guys look alike?   (The first guy to make a Winona Ryder joke gets a poke in the eye.)  ...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:38:00 PST

UGH!

It's the xmas season. We at the USPS are carrying more mail than ever in the history of the Service. We are doing it with historically low numbers of employees. I came home today and just fell straigh...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:00:00 PST

My One Good Eye

This is what I did when I realized my eyes were really going.I was born with amblyopia. Commonly known as "lazy eye". My right eye just didn't want to work in concert with my left eye and so the left ...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:41:00 PST

Red Beard and Two Gun

Years and years ago, after I'd gotten my foot in the door and sold some comic scripts to Marvel and got DC Comics to open the way (just a crack, mind you), I was able to submit proposals at *******. O...
Posted by James Robert Smith on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:24:00 PST