Born in 1970, the first eighteen years of Dan Smith’s life were spent crossing the world in one life and being subjected to the rigours of a traditional English boarding school in another.

  He’s lived in many places including Sierra Leone, Sumatra, northern and central Brazil. He’s even lived in Spain and in the Soviet Union, but now he’s settled in Newcastle with his wife and two young children to keep him on his toes. And, boy, do they keep him on his toes.

  Dan’s jobs have varied from dishwasher extraordinaire (or, perhaps, just ordinaire), social security fraud (detecting it, not committing it), to a fistful of mundane office jobs, but throughout all of those things, Dan has always kept writing. Like most other writers, he just can’t help it, and he now has a bottom drawer full of stories and novels that should probably stay right where they are, and a number of ideas which will hopefully see the light of day.

In 2004, one of Dan’s stories ‘Vai com Deus’, was published in the literary anthology ‘Matter 4’, and in that year he was also short-listed for the Royal Literary Fund mentor scheme and for the Northern Writer’s Awards. In April 2005 he was the winner of a ‘Northern Promise’ award. In 2008, Dan Smith signed a two book deal with The Orion Publishing Group. DRY SEASON is the first of those novels.

There has been some discussion about how ‘DRY SEASON’ should be classified, but perhaps that is up to the reader to decide. It has a bit of everything; love, violence, sex, death and God. What else does it need? So, all that’s left is for you to take your copy of ‘DRY SEASON’ to your favourite spot. Open the cover and start reading.

The rest is up to you.