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June 27, 2011
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Roy Smith
Biography
In answer to your most frequent queries: Some books,like fine wine, may gain magic as they age, but everyday reading material along with young wine is meant for consumption today. Its future has to be in on-demand printing and on electronic devices: e-print. That´s why I´ve turned to e-books.
Rough sprang from the notion that if you´re in trouble on the golf course, or when playing any game, be glad the trouble´s there and not in the real, big, bad world.
Mr Wilson´s Woman is about the life of a widower. In real-life, my father died before my mother. After watching her survive him by close to twenty years, building a new life for herself, I asked myself what would have happened to my father had the situation been reversed.
The Almost Man asks when do become who we are.
I like writing about different things, setting my characters in backgrounds I know something about and am interested in.
Rough sprang from the notion that if you´re in trouble on the golf course, or when playing any game, be glad the trouble´s there and not in the real, big, bad world.
Mr Wilson´s Woman is about the life of a widower. In real-life, my father died before my mother. After watching her survive him by close to twenty years, building a new life for herself, I asked myself what would have happened to my father had the situation been reversed.
The Almost Man asks when do become who we are.
I like writing about different things, setting my characters in backgrounds I know something about and am interested in.
Where to find Roy Smith online
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Books
Five and Twenty Past
by Roy Smith
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 3,640.
Language:
English.
Published: October 21, 2012
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
A short story set in London 1970. A father takes his thirty-year-old daughter back to the town where he was born and raised. He has not been in England since 1945, when at the end of WWII he had emigrated to the U.S.A. A story of love, separation and adultery.
Side Effects
by Roy Smith
Price:
Free!
Words: 2,840.
Language:
English.
Published: March 19, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Cancer
Tips for coping with the side effects of chemo and radiation treatment of cancer. This short book is free. You may download it as many times as you wish.
One of the advantages of eBooks is that they are easily updated.
This book is regularly updated.
The last update was made on 8 April 2012.
Curses & Blessings
by Roy Smith
Price:
Free!
Words: 1,380.
Language:
English.
Published: March 9, 2012
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Cancer
A positive look at cancer.
This short book is free. If you like it or find it useful, you could contact me, write a review, give a thumbs-up. You could also make a donation to your favorite charity. If you don´t like it, you could forget feedback, the review, and the thumb. But perhaps remember that donation.
Thanks.
Wanderlust
by Roy Smith
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 1,590.
Language:
English.
Published: October 14, 2011
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Travel » Travel - Reference
Wanderlust is a personal view of the joy of travelling: seeing the place ´over the hill´.