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I'm too sexy for my shirt, apparently, and my tan is natural. Beatles nut, lead guitarist and singer - I'll Be Back, Nowhere Man, I'm Looking Through You, If I Fell, Norwegian Wood, Run For Your Life, In My Life, This Boy, Should Have Known Better, Rain and so on.

Big songwriter too, with 30 tunes on ccmixter. eg Who Am I To Disagree(Minima) (stefsax @ http://ccmixter.org/files/minimal_art/7995

An excerpt of The Marquis was published on Limbo Quarterly @ http://limboquarterly.com/2012/05/04/lunchtime-in-the-marquis-of-queensbury/

Last year I had a short story accepted by Big Pulp for their Summer 2012 issue, and it's coming soon.

IndieGoGo: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/100431?c=home&a=246332.
Big Pulp: http://www.bigpulp.com/
Big Pulp on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bigpulp?ref=ts

For the first time, stories published in The Smoking Poet, Ink Sweat and Tears, Rainy City Stories, Transmission, The Front View, Surprising Stories, Verbsap, Eclectica and many others have been collected in Jack Kerouac Eats Here.

"Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue; awakens thought and prevents drowsiness."
(Lu Yu, 5th Century Chinese Poet)

"Teapot
Whispers to
Teacup —
stay close" -ikk

favourite books

The Curious Incident of the WMD in Iraq by Rohan Candappa
Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
The End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman
Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Grey Area by Will Self.
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
Waterland by Graham Swift
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
The Burned Children of America
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen

Dostoevsky, Kafka, Gogol, Chekov.

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The Marquis

Ian D. Smith

Take a good look at the future.


The Marquis tracks the lives of Jules Jewell and Damian Bones, both in different ways running away. They may never escape drug baron Roland Bamber, but the novel does, with optimism and humour, and a cast of unforgettable characters. Fall in love with Suki Chen and Macy May, laugh at Gripper and Monty as you join them on a riotous journey from a grubby old East London pub to the other side of this world and beyond. The Marquis is a book about crime, music and the future, about love, friendship and fulfilment. It’s also very funny.

Take a long lunch break at the Marquis of Queensbury, where anything is possible … even love.

 

Jack Kerouac Eats Here

Ian D. Smith

Eat where Jack Kerouac ate. Today’s specials are darkness, danger and a sense of humanity.


A christmas tree with the ability to kill, and Dean Moriarty dying in the snow. A man stumbles on some lovers, and a detective brings someone back from the dead. The search for glue is over, and then there's racism in England, while a visit to St Peter’s Square, Rome, is cut short by a volcanic eruption. Leaving your sofa out in the Manchester rain could seriously damage your health. Evolution plays tricks on a man who learns some human anxiety while a couple on a stricken space ship face oblivion together, along with the elephant in the room. A man moves into the house from hell, and inadvertently feeds a kitten, and then a surveyor enters a house and finds it’s still occupied, and subsiding. One retired couple - One holiday suicide pact. Two young people find love in a bad situation, while Dementia and Alzheimer’s patients respond to trite phrases repeated endlessly. Now let’s eat.

 

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Shain Knowles wrote 1 day ago

Hi Ian, Just read the first chapter of Jack Kerouac Eats Here and ....

Little Black Book wrote 2 days ago

Hi Ian, I really enjoyed reading THE MARQUIS! Definitely one for t....

whoster wrote 3 days ago

Ian, As a fellow Beatles nut, why not come along and add your ha'p....

upforgrabs wrote 3 days ago

Hello, I've just started a thread to raise support for Cara Gold's 'A....

Just Joey wrote 4 days ago

And I will continue to comment on what I think is a big pile of horse....

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I wrote 8 days ago

The intriguing first chapter really made me want to read on and find out what happened to the baby boy, who was the mysterious presence behind the curtain, and what became of the tyrannical husband? The story of Maggie unfolds from Chapter 2 onwards with her dramatic rescue from her miserable existe... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Cafe Trocadero gets off to a lively start with an engaging main character, some good comic touches and the prospect of a Parisian romance. It also captures brilliantly the sense of panic that we English speakers get when abroad and faced with anything more complicated than ordering a beer. The plot ... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Although I imagine this is a book that will appeal more to girls, I've really enjoyed the two chapters I've read so far. I like the way the story kind of ambles on, gradually developing and revealing the minutiae of a disintegrating relationship and the reactions of those close to the couple. The in... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

This is a really great creation, with an English ‘Sargents Peppers’ circus feel to it. I was reminded of the track Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite. I like the Romany references, Jal Orderly and the smells and the hubbub. There’s a good noise of the circus about it all the time in every scene, which... view book

I wrote 8 days ago

Wonderful. Fox Pop London captures the kind of surreal madness that only a UK media frenzy can create, cf the fox phobia outbreak a few years ago. Apparently, the media have always been like this. When Dickens put Magwitch in a rowing boat on the Thames in the serialized Great Expectations, people a... view book

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