

Not acceptable to his father, Smith's first job was in banking.

Shooting (hunting) had 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 was educated at Lichfield Cathedral School and Wrekin College. Smith's father was a bank manager, his mother a pre- World War II historical novelist (E. Guy Newman Smith (21 November 1939 – 24 December 2020) was an English writer best known for his pulp fiction-style horror, though he also wrote non-fiction, softcore pornography, and children's literature. Horror fiction, Fantasy, Children's literature, Non-fiction
