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Smith, Vin was born on May 19, 1944 in Whittier, California, United States. Son of M. Clifford and Anna Eugenia Smith.
(Vin Smith is back with a tour de force coming-of-age nove...)
Vin Smith is back with a tour de force coming-of-age novel forty years in the making. Based on the tumultuous first semester of his freshman year in college, Ride the High Waves is an astoundingly erotic study of love and loss, and the desperate search for meaning. Losing his beloved grandfather on the first day of classes, Vin meets Kathy Baumgarner, an equally lost freshman coping with deaths in her own family. Unwilling to let the young Theology major she is falling in love with sink into the depths of depression, Kathy lends a sympathetic ear as Vin recounts the extraordinary life of his New England grandfather, while at the same time working through the pain of his dysfunctional California family. The lovers find themselves at odds with authority figures at the university as they take turns sneaking inside each other's dormitory rooms. A series of breathtaking adventures draw them even closer until Kathy's childhood girlfriend, Mickie Marson, herself falls in love with the rebellious youngman. Will it be the death of a beautiful, fiery romance, or will there be an old-fashioned menage a trois?
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(In 1870 Nacogdoches County, Texas, Buck Hudson is a twelv...)
In 1870 Nacogdoches County, Texas, Buck Hudson is a twelve-year-old boy, and big for his age. He is fast becoming quite the cowman in the estimation of his father, Billy, and also is a pretty fair hand around his mother Liz's chickens. Buck's grandfather, Old Man Hudson, is visiting indefinitely from St. Louis, and in spite of the fact that Buck and his parents live in Nacogdoches County, Texas, is quite close to the boy. Billy Hudson wants nothing to do with the oil business, and has been rebuffing the ruthless oilman, Barnabas Callahan, who along with his sometime partner, Denton Delacroix, have been busy wrapping up Nacogdoches County ranch land in order drill wells. While Old Man Hudson and Liz are away getting supplies, an attempt at heavy-handed negotiation goes terribly awry, and Billy Hudson is killed by Callahan's gunsel, Mackenzie Slade. Buck is badly beaten into a six-year coma. Old Man and Liz Hudson secretly return to St. Louis with the comatose boy, allowing the town to think that Buck is dead. On a Christmas in 1876 St. Louis, Buck finally reawakens. It will take the three years until Buck reaches his majority to rehabilitate his body and train under the watchful eye of Old Man Hudson, a former gunman and a practicing gunsmith. During those three long years, Buck Hudson spends every waking moment getting himself ready to return to Nacogdoches. When Buck reaches his one time stomping grounds, things are more complicated than he might have imagined. His childhood sweetheart, Sabrina Delacroix, is now engaged to the vicious Mackenzie Slade, and Buck Hudson must deliver a bullet for Slade.
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(Vin Smith returns with his most intricately plotted novel...)
Vin Smith returns with his most intricately plotted novel yet, introducing a new protagonist in the second installment of the critically acclaimed End Time Mystery Series. This time around The Watcher is monitoring Southern Jefferson University Cosmic Anthropology Professor Linder Fogelman. Fogelman is obsessed with only two things in life. The first is proving the validity of his theories, widely seen in academe as outlandish. In his heart, he believes that if he can prove that Lemurians are real and have been peacefully watching over mankind for millennia-then the world's wars would be history. But his deepest, most persistent obsession is finding his long lost fiancee, Jessie Ernest. She disappeared ten years earlier while exploring Abu Simbel in Egypt. In spite of a decade long search by Fogelman-with the help of American and Egyptian authorities using the conventional means available-Jessie is still missing. But technology continues to advance. Now Fogelman sets out to search for Jessie using a Cosmic Locator that he developed jointly with his buddy, Baron Lee. He will travel through a Vortex Portal on the sacred Mount Shasta, all the way to Abu Simbel in Egypt. Will his search enable him to reunite with Jessie, his long lost love? If so, it would keep Lindy Fogelman forever away from Becky Tournup, who has worked by his side and secretly loved him for years... The only thing certain is that Professor Fogelman's foray into Egypt ignites an ancient prophecy that involves the handsome professor up to his eyeballs. The very fate of mankind hangs in the balance...
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(Cox Delaney is very successful in his father-in-law's fir...)
Cox Delaney is very successful in his father-in-law's firm. Now he knows too much. Patrice Orosco is a newly minted graduate of the University of Texas, San Antonio. She is determined to continue what has been an impressive career as a news hawk while still a student. Cox Delaney finds his life spiraling into oblivion in the course of a single night. In a startling move, Patrice accepts a post with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, far from her beloved family in McAllen, Texas, and her adopted San Antonio. Her first assignment is to write a lengthy piece about the homeless in Cleveland, a job that promises to be an exercise in despair. Little did she know she would soon be embroiled in a deadly corporate plot to track down a man who is in possession of knowledge so dangerous it threatens the very survival of a huge enterprise. Caught between frightening human degradation and high dollar greed, Patrice hooks up with the enigmatic Red Dog. Will he be her salvation, or her ruin? At once a tender love story and a thoroughly engrossing thriller, Neon Streets is filled with memorable characters that speak eloquently of the human condition.
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Smith, Vin was born on May 19, 1944 in Whittier, California, United States. Son of M. Clifford and Anna Eugenia Smith.
Student, Columbia School Broadcasting, San Francisco, 1967. Associate of Arts, Cuesta College, 1974. Graduate, American School of Piano Tuning, 1978.
Doctor of Divinity, Ancient Order of the Western Australia, 2004.
Sales manager Station KTAT, Frederick, Oklahoma, 1967-1969. Announcer KOCY, Oklahoma City, 1969. Owner Melmart Markets, San Luis Obispo, California, 1971-1973, American Direct Sales, Grover City, 1973-1979.
Instructor piano Valley View Academy, Arroyo Grande, 1977-1978, Long Piano Company, San Luis Obispo, 1977-1979, piano technician, 1978-1979. Owner Chocolate Piano, Yreka, California, since 1979. Instructor piano Makah Indian Tribe, Neah Bay, Washington, 1981-1982.
Sports editor New Words Digest, Bakersfield, California, since 1988. Consultant, stress evaluator seminar Yreka Stress Therapy Clinic, 1986-1987. Founder Vinco Distributors (formerly Vinco Enhancement Systems), 1998.
Chair piano department Bogus School, 1999-2004, international relationship counselor Ask Me committee, 2000-2003, askdrpiano.com., 2000.
(Vin Smith returns with his most intricately plotted novel...)
(In 1870 Nacogdoches County, Texas, Buck Hudson is a twelv...)
(Vin Smith is back with a tour de force coming-of-age nove...)
(Cox Delaney is very successful in his father-in-law's fir...)
Chairman heart fund Tillman County Oklahoma, 1968. Public co-chairman Siskiyou County No-Prop 174, 1994. Campaign worker Ken Jourdan for sheriff, Yreka, 1986.
Publicity director Gene Breceda for supervisor, 1993-1994. Member National Writers Club (chairman student committee Yreka chapter 1988), Author's Guild, Inc., Author's League of America, Mystery Writers American, Society Children's Book Writers, Junior Chamber of Commerce (sergeant-at-arms Frederick chapter 1967-1969), Kiwanis, Moose.
Married Marthea Karen Callaham, May 15, 1969 (divorced 1979). Children: Jayare Smith, Eric Smith. Married Ginger Hammon, October 20, 1984.
Children: Amy Michelle, Stacey Erin, Kellie Rae.