Smith wrote his first horror book, Werewolf by Moonlight, in 1974. It would ultimately be his writing that would do this. Smith’s intention had been to concentrate on this business and hopefully leave banking. In 1972 he launched a second hand bookselling business that would eventually become Black Hill Books. In the late 1960s and into the early 1970s Smith’s writing focused mainly on shooting and he wrote regularly for many sporting magazines of the day. In 1961 he designed and made a 12-bore shotgun, and during 1960-67 operated a small shotgun cartridge loading business. Not acceptable to his father, Smith’s first job was in banking. Shooting (hunting) has always been an interest of Smith’s, and he would have liked an apprenticeship in the gun trade. His mother always encouraged his writing and he was first published at the age of 12 in The Tettenhall Observer, a local newspaper. Smith’s father was a bank manager, his mother a pre-war historical novelist (E. Guy Newman Smith (born 21 November, 1939, Hopwas, Staffordshire) is an English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror, though he has also written non-fiction, softcore, and children’s literature.
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