various day-jobs as befits a struggling novelist. Major influences are Henry Miller, C S Forrester, John Steinbeck, Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Alejio Carpentier, T S Eliot, W H Auden, R S Thomas, Ted Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Leonard Cohen, John Clare, Walt Whitman, Lorca, Cavafy, Basho, Issa, William Carlos Williams, and so on and so on and so on.......

still here

I am currently engaged in the research and writing of another historical novel based this time on an Elizabethan leper colony. My last historical novel, on the life and execution of Sir William de Marisco, is about to be republished by bluechrome/Boho Press, who also recently brought out the sequel to 'To Be Like John Clare', 'Problems & Polemics'. And BeWrite Books have just brought out an e-book version of 'pieces', 'the complete pieces'. If you want to know any more check out my website at http://members.aol.com/smithsssj/index.html

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BeWrite Books
Run by Neil Marr, Cait Myers and Alexander Marr with great care and attention to their authors.

Online Originals
they submitted my novel, Sister Blister, for the 2000 Booker Prize; and in 2004 brought it out in a very handsome hardback edition.

bluechrome/boho press
Anthony Delgrado is the driving force behind this press. And drive he does! Has just got a deal whereby all the bluechrome titles are going into Waterstones and other major book retailers.