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Uncertain Times

The first novel by George S. Smith sold more than 2,000 copies and is available via publishamerica.com, barnesandnoble.com, and amazon.com

Smith was not idle waiting for the publication of his first and second novels. 

He has already written more than 50,000 words on a prequel to “Uncertain Times” called “Uncertain People.” He said he “fell in love with the two main characters of the ‘Uncertain Times’ and couldn’t let them go. So, they are resurrected in a story 30 years in the past.”  

Additionally, Smith and co-author Steve Burnett of New York City, a global business consultant and artist, have completed a “decidedly different” business management book titled “The Circumference of Me.” The book combines Burnett’s unique “whimsy” style of art with Smith’s gut-punch literary imagery and is scheduled for publication in 2010.

And, a humorous novel co-written with his daughter, Mattie Somer Smith Cummins, of Phoenix, Arizona, is in final editing. Tentatively titled “Screwing the Internet Spamming Scammer,” the father-daughter team spent more than two years corresponding with email scam artists from throughout the world.

“This is not your typical beware-of-scammers book,” Smith said. “The object of the book is to show to what lengths scammers will go to pluck an Internet pigeon and how you can have fun while scamming them in return.”

Simultaneously, Smith is writing a first-person novel about growing up in Avery, Texas and the Sutton Community  in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Titled “Growing Up Mostly Happy,” the novel is also scheduled to be published in 2011.