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Jesse S. Smith - Author

Published works: Fiction

The Battle of Hillsboro
Unwilling to settle for lives of quiet mediocrity, a group of local young men decide to take matters into their own hands in this action-adventure suspense thriller. They hatch a plan to conquer the world, beginning with a certain small town. Putting their plan into action, they launch a series of heists to fund their army.

Short fiction, published in the literary magazine Blue Moon

A Tale of Two Pities (a short play in one act)
Excerpts from At the Center

Published works: Nonfiction

Principles for a Self-Directed Society
Painstakingly researched, this extensive examination of current social problems provides a complete worldview and systematically proposes specific, actionable steps that can be taken by the global society to direct itself into a better future. Smith's wide-ranging discussion of economics, politics, military confrontations, environmental issues, and broader social challenges is a pointed, challenging, controversial work that ultimately seeks to propose positive measures for affecting social change.
Introduction to the Basementia Publications edition of The Military-Industrial Complex

Online Content

Smith has also written a great deal of professional online content. To see examples, see Smith's business experience page, and browse around on any of the websites linked from there.

Smith has also written dozens of freelance articles for major online content producer Demand Media, a company that publishes content on a number of well-known websites, including eHow.com.

Unpublished Works - Nonfiction

In addition to his published writings, Smith has completed a number of works which remain unpublished. The most important of these is Teaching Music in Egypt.

Teaching Music in Egypt is a travelogue detailing the author's experiences during a year spent in Cairo, Egypt, with side trips to India, Nepal, and other locations. The narrative begins with some hilarity, but over the course of the story the author comes to a number of important realizations about serious issues of poverty in the modern world, and survives a brutal attack by desert hoodlums. There are also interesting side ventures into spirituality, ancient history, and touching aspects of the author's personal life. If Jesse S. Smith is ever elected to high political office, Teaching Music in Egypt will become an instant bestseller.

Jesse Smith also co-authored The Story of the Smith Family. This study in genealogy was researched by Smith's father Scott, who wrote the greater share of the book before he passed away. Ten years later, Jesse undertook to comprehend the results of the research, and wrote the book's final 7 chapters in his own style. The Story of the Smith Family traces the Smith lineage, including the women who married into the family, back through veterans of both World Wars, a small town mayor in Kansas, a Civil War veteran who fought for the Union, a number of farmers, a Revolutionary War veteran named Enos Smith, and all the way back to one William Smith, who came to America from England in the early1630's and eventually became a magistrate in Long Island, New York. A small number of copies of the completed manuscript have been distributed to a few family members.

Unpublished Works - Fiction

Smith has completed a number of experimental novellas, including The Little Black Box, Escapism, and The Night Before Day One. Smith has also ventured into science fiction with short stories including "Beware the Sandstorm Gods."