Christmas Backlog Times Are Changing

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Ian

October, November and December used to be the perfect time to send story submissions to the editors of magazines. Writers are supposed to have other things to do. They’re supposed to be busy with their high-powered day jobs, spending hard-earned credit on presents, and partying so they aren’t in a position to weigh down depressed [...]

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In-Car Valeting Story Published

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Ian

In-Car Valeting contrasts physical and social mobility in a world that grows rapidly more divided.

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Ian D. Smith's Writing Credits

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Ian

The Front View (aka The View From Here) (ISSN 1758-2903): Telescopes @ http://tinyurl.com/q88dqv Transmission 6 (ISSN 1752-3729): Nobody Knows a Damned Thing @ http://tinyurl.com/dnmkzd Transmission 4: The North is So Much Better for Youngsters Today @ http://tinyurl.com/c35e83 Nobody Told the Horse, I Hadn’t Even Started and Not Your Problem (Surprising Stories) @ http://tinyurl.com/qnnf5x Think of [...]

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Releasing a Copy of Tony Blair: the Wilderness Years

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Ian

Releasing a copy of Tony Blair: The Wilderness Years through BookCrossing.com in the Oxfam Bookshop Salisbury! Go find it (today, after 3pm GMT). :->

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Writer's Guide to Surviving the Recession

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Ian

Robert McCrum in the Guardian Book Blog writes: “Don’t get depressed: A writer’s guide to surviving the recession” He provides six useful points: 1.Write in English, British, or American 2.Know Thy Genre 3.Tell a story 4.Write for yourself 5.Respect the reading public 6.Write every day; shun vanity To which some wit (David Absalom) has added [...]

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Attack!!! 10 is Out Now

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Ian

Go here: http://www.ecartilage.co.uk/attack1001.htm for the work of Gethan Dick, Johanna van Fessem, Matthew Giraudeau, Antony Hall, Steve Leighton, Mark Lewis, Andrew Murray, Chris Murray, Rae Rae, Ian Duncan Smith, Ben Platts-Mills, Erica Viola and of course, Wes White.

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My Story Published at Eclectica

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Ian

My story The Day I Asked Blake Morrison If He Raced Pigeons has been published at Eclectica. I submitted two Life Writing commentaries back in October, and Tom Dooley selected this one for the January 2008 issue. It’s a great start to the year. I have lots of ideas to work on, and getting one [...]

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My Blake Morrison Story Has Been Cherry Picked At ABC Tales

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Ian

The Day I Asked Blake Morrison If He Raced Pigeons has been Cherry Picked by the editors at ABCTales. It’s funny that my Life Writing MA has become the subject of my life writing.  I submitted an earlier version online to Pulp.net which seems to be the online incarnation of Bloomsbury. They pay £100 per [...]

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Two Pitiful Views of Humanity – Friction Fiction 43

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Ian

I just posted a new podcast show. I put this show together around the two poems I’ve had published at Surprising Stories.com, and Bewildering Stories.com: The Aura Seekers, and The Righteous Wrong. I wrote them back in May. The Aura Seekers is all about self-centered people who think a lot of themselves. The Righteous Wrong [...]

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My Writing Is In Attack!!! Magazine

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Ian

Don’t Get In Its Way is a page of fiction I wrote in response to Ben Platts-Mills sad story All I Wanted To Do Was in Attack!!! 6. Attack!!! 7 has just arrived, and it’s another a great little issue created by Wes White. My writing is alongside Damaged Goods by Erica Viola, and I’m [...]

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