About Daniel Arthur Smith

Daniel Arthur Smith is the international bestselling author of The Cathari Treasure and The Somali Deception. American born, Daniel has traveled to over 300 cities in 22 countries, residing in Los Angeles, Kalamazoo, Prague, Crete, and New York. Daniel was born and raised in Michigan, graduating from Western Michigan University where he studied philosophy and comparative religion. He has been a teacher, bartender, barista, poetry house proprietor, technologist, and a Fortune 100 consultant across America and Europe. Daniel resides and writes in Manhattan with his wife and young sons.

Free Mothers Day Ebook – The Potter’s Daughter Kindle Edition

Free Kindle EditionTo celebrate Mothers Day The Potter’s Daughter Kindle Edition will be free on Amazon.com Saturday & Sunday, May 11 & 12. A great gift for mom, The Potter’s Daughter really is a special story of a woman’s relationships with her family, her past, and the new man in her life.

The Potter’s Daughter Kindle Edition

 

The Potter's Daughter Kindle EditionThe Potter’s Daughter Kindle Edition is available today on Amazon worldwide.  Over the following weeks the paperback and audiobook editions will also be released.  So for now enjoy the digital pages of this great story of a woman reconnecting with her father, past, and self. (And please leave a review on Amazon when you have finished as they mean a great deal.)

The Potter's Daughter Kindle Edition

Writing – Editing – Submitting

Writing has dominated my work time this past month (awesome), which is to say writing, editing, and submitting.  For years I wrote and sometimes edited yet to make a vocation of authorship, as much emphasis must be put on editing and submitting as the writing I have always done.  What does that mean, format and proposals of course and all of the heavy lifting involved with getting ones work ready to go out the door.

Now I used to write for myself and let me share, there is nothing that will tighten your craft as a writer, as does the preparation for publishing.  In his book on the craft novelist George V. Higgins wrote, “If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.”  Now that is not to say that the exercise of creating words in order, chronicling your day in a journal or blog, or sending a letter or email is not writing.  I agree with Higgins though that if one is to title himself as a writer, as in to publicly introduce one as such, as an understanding of vocation, than one must put forth an effort to command language.  To manipulate words and grammar into an elixir that some other being can consume.  The elixir does not necessitate the complexity of fine wine or a chemical alchemy so ingenious that scholars will spend generations deciphering the ingredients, as milk is fine. Turns out a lot of people like milk.  Still, even if you are writing straight wholesome milk there is a process to abide to, and so I have submitted and my novels line the digital shelves of the flat iron building awaiting a turn in the queue.

Novel to Webseries Serial to Novel

 

The Potter's Daughter

The Potter’s Daughter www.pottersdaughter.com

The Potter's Daughter iTunes podcast

The Potter’s Daughter is a literary fiction novel that has been Serialized Online and on Audio podcast.

The Online Serial is available  at www.pottersdaughter.com, on Wattpad and iTunes.

In the coming weeks our imprint Holt Smith will release The Potter’s Daughter complete novel in a variety of formats.  This novel is very different than The Cathari Treasure and has never been published opening my work to an new audience.

Stay tuned for updates as the release date will be announced soon!

After a promise to her dying mother, Abby Bellen, the estranged daughter of an aging ceramic artist, feels obligated to return to her home on Willow Lake to put her father’s life in order.  Years have passed since Abby fled the home of her youth and a past she would rather forget.  Now Abby has no choice other than confrontation as the long buried rift that exists between the two surfaces and they must together face the failures of their misspent relationship as she discovers, with the help of new romance Mitch Carlson, what she needs to make herself whole.

Subscribe to the free weekly Online Serial at www.pottersdaughter.comWattpad or to the weekly Audio Podcast in iTunes to read or hear further chapters in this story of family and self discovery.

#Free #Kindle #Book this Weekend!

The Cathari Treasure

The Cathari Treasure by Daniel Arthur Smith is FREE this weekend as part of a Kindle Direct Publishing promotion.  Click here http://amzn.to/13cJK3b or share this link to receive your free copy of THE CATHARI TREASURE or to gift this action, adventure, thriller to someone you know to enjoy!

Did Amazon copy #TuesdaySerial?

Downward Facing Death

Downward Facing Death Serial started in September 2012

The Cathari Treasure

The Cathari Treasure Serial started in June 2012

Downward-Facing Death by Neal Pollack
an Amazon Serial released initially in September by the Amazon publishing imprint Thomas & Mercer has coincidentally similar cover art to this other great Serial from #TuesdaySerial The Cathari Treasure by Daniel Arthur Smith that began in June, three months earlier.

Now do I think that some suit capitalized on the ongoing popularization of #TuesdaySerial right down to mimicking the cover art of their serials? No I do not. I think great minds think alike and am a bit flattered as I am a fan of Neal Pollack and know he is a bit too punk to let that happen. Remember when Neal created a punk band and toured to support his book Never Mind the Pollacks .

The Downward-Facing Death serial is now complete so download the novel from Amazon to show your support for serials.http://amzn.to/10jDnqO

THE POTTER’S DAUGHTER now on Wattpad.com

wattpadicon_512pxToday the first five Chapters of THE POTTER’S DAUGHTER were published on Wattpad.com to provide a wider distribution of the serial until the time comes to publish the novel and audiobook.  Each week a chapter will be published on Wattpad as well as pottersdaughter.com.  The Wattpad webpage for THE POTTER’S DAUGHTER can be found here http://bit.ly/wattdaughter


Wattpad is the world’s largest community for discovering and sharing stories. It’s a new form of entertainment connecting readers and writers through storytelling, and best of all, it’s entirely free. With thousands of new stories added every day, an incredibly active community of readers, and the ability to read on your computer, phone, or tablet, Wattpad is the only place that offers a truly social, and entirely mobile reading experience.

Reporting From Nairobi – Margot Kiser – 1

margotkiserAs in all of my writing, with The Somali Deception I have learned from friends on the ground.   This podcast of WABC/NY’s John Batchelor Show features my good friend Margot Kiser reporting from Nairobi discussing ICC indictment of Kenya’s President elect for crimes against humanity and the corruption of Lamu Port http://bit.ly/15K9elT

Margot’s extensive article in the Think Africa Press http://thinkafricapress.com/kenya/lamu-port-development-vs-preservation