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Dan Smith

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Dan Smith I'm not really much of a planner. Whenever I try to plan a novel I usually end up not wanting to write it because I already know everything that's goi…moreI'm not really much of a planner. Whenever I try to plan a novel I usually end up not wanting to write it because I already know everything that's going to happen! I guess my first draft is my plan - that's my version of telling myself the story. It usually takes me a few months to write the first draft, then I work on the detail and flesh out the characters.(less)
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Book Signing!

You lucky, LUCKY things! What an opportunity!


On Saturday 25th November, I will be in Waterstones Durham from 11am – 2pm signing books and skulking about. So if you’ve finished reading the latest Philip Pullman, you’re done with Potter, had enough of Horowitz, read the celebs, and you’re just plain sick of Walliams, then why not come along and say hello?


 


 


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“It made him feel more alive than he had felt for weeks.”
Dan Smith, Below Zero

“I wept for the darkness that had come into this life and for the light that had gone out of it. I wept for the space that would never be filled.”
Dan Smith, The Child Thief

“Human nature is human nature. We subject ourselves to things we know we might not be able to endure. We do it to test ourselves, to scratch an itch, to punish ourselves. Whatever the reason, we can’t help but look at atrocity. Even if it’s only to reassure ourselves that our own life could always be worse. I”
Dan Smith, The Darkest Heart

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