Multi-award-winning 🇨🇦 author and "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." (Library Journal). Website: https://smithwriter.com
Books: https://books2read.com/DouglasSmith
All my links: https://linktr.ee/smithwriter
Available for pre-order now. Coming out in Sept this year.
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I’ll add one I found on one of my cycling routes in Toronto
Reposting for no other reason beyond this is awesome #art #streetart
Interview on CHOP Radio in Newmarket
So sad to hear this news. He was far too young. Buffy has lost her Watcher.
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Escape from 2026 Storybundle
A New Book on Writing: Brick by Brick
Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
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Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
Douglas Smith 🇨🇦 Writing the Fantastic
I've written a new non-fiction book, this one on the craft of writing. It's called Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story.
For years, I’ve resisted authoring a craft book. It always seemed presumptuous to think I knew enough about this writing thing to pass on some special knowledge on how to go about it.
But I’ve now been writing and selling what I write to professional markets for three decades and have won multiple awards for both short stories and novels. My work has been translated and published in twenty-eight languages and thirty-six countries.
In short, I know that I know how to write great fiction.
Now, knowing how to write does not necessarily translate to knowing how to teach someone to write. But I know I can outline a clear process any writer can follow for moving from an initial idea for a story to building a solid structure for their tale. And that's what this book provides and, I think, in a very different way from other craft guides.
From the book blurb:
Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.
And on and on and on.
Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.
The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.
Those craft books are the equivalent of telling a rookie construction worker, "Here's how to use a hammer, saw, level, screwdrivers, band saw, power drill, etc. Got that? Great! Now go build a house."
In this book, Douglas Smith, a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction," takes a different approach.
In these pages, Doug will show how to design that house so that you can build it. You'll learn how to create a blueprint for your story idea to take you from inspiration to story structure, a structure you can then build, brick by brick.
Or rather, scene by scene.
If that sounds like a book that might help you on your writing journey, then click here to preorder Brick by Brick from your favorite retailer.
#onwriting #writing #writingcraft #booksky
I was interviewed in late May by Gary Johnson on CHOP-FM, 102.7 in Newmarket, on my newest release, my collection Borderlanz, and on my writing in general.
102.7 CHOP FM is a student-operated radio station serving Pickering College and the wider Newmarket community. Pickering College is the only JK-Grade 12 school in Canada with a CRTC-licensed station. This fully functioning station provides a range of community-based programming including a live morning show, sports updates, and feature programs.
I'd been interviewed by Gary on his show back in 2024 about the release of my fourth novel, The Lost Expedition, the final book in The Dream Rider Saga trilogy, and it was great to connect with him again, this time in a brand new studio at the College.
If you're interested, you can listen to the interview on the station's livestream when it is rebroadcast at either of the following times:
* Wednesday June 17 at 6:00pm
* Saturday June 20 at 7am
Unfortunately, they don't archive their programs online, so those are the only chances you'll have of hearing it.
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We all need escapist fiction right now. Something that alters our reality completely and makes us believe, if only for a few hours, that we live in a completely different time period.
The "Escape From 2026" StoryBundle, curated by multi-award-winning writer and editor, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, does exactly that.
With 12 ebooks you can't find anywhere else (15 items total) as well as some great fiction you might not have seen…and a workshop that will help you write your own escape, this StoryBundle has it all. Beach reading at its best!
Pay whatever you want to get the basic bundle of three ebooks, including an exclusive collection of my time travel stories. Pay at least $30 to unlock another 11 bonus books and a video lecture, for a total of 15 goodies!
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I've written a new non-fiction book, this one on the craft of writing. It's called Brick by Brick: How to Build a Story.
For years, I’ve resisted authoring a craft book. It always seemed presumptuous to think I knew enough about this writing thing to pass on some special knowledge on how to go about it.
But I’ve now been writing and selling what I write to professional markets for three decades and have won multiple awards for both short stories and novels. My work has been translated and published in twenty-eight languages and thirty-six countries.
In short, I know that I know how to write great fiction.
Now, knowing how to write does not necessarily translate to knowing how to teach someone to write. But I know I can outline a clear process any writer can follow for moving from an initial idea for a story to building a solid structure for their tale. And that's what this book provides and, I think, in a very different way from other craft guides.
From the book blurb:
Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.
And on and on and on.
Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.
The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.
Those craft books are the equivalent of telling a rookie construction worker, "Here's how to use a hammer, saw, level, screwdrivers, band saw, power drill, etc. Got that? Great! Now go build a house."
In this book, Douglas Smith, a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction," takes a different approach.
In these pages, Doug will show how to design that house so that you can build it. You'll learn how to create a blueprint for your story idea to take you from inspiration to story structure, a structure you can then build, brick by brick.
Or rather, scene by scene.
If that sounds like a book that might help you on your writing journey, then click here to preorder Brick by Brick from your favorite retailer.
#onwriting #writing #writingcraft #booksky
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