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Ian Smith

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Larry Niven, Laura Ingalls Wilder, C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien

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Ian Smith was raised by Southern Californian hippies who abandoned city life to live a pioneer-style existence in the wilderness. Home was a tent, a trailer, a tiny wood shack, a commune, an Indian reservation. Then they became missionaries and moved into a school bus. Things got even stranger. You’ll have to read book two for the rest of that story. (In progress)

Ian was homeschooled until college, where he got a B.A. in Art & Design at Anderson University. He’s been working as a graphic designer and website developer since 1998.

As an adult, Ian very much enjoys a peaceful, stationary existence in Brown County, Indiana with his family and two cats. Every day reinforces the idea that living in an unmovable house is wonderful. Bilbo Baggins w
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Sneak Peek of The Struggle Bus, Ch. 1

1: The Border



Tumbleweeds roamed the desert – large, round balls, weighing next to nothing. They rolled across the baked ground, bounding high before the hot wind as if to leap for joy – exulting in their freedom. Their tiny withered root was broken; a single dry thread that bound them to their past lives. They were free to run, free to spread their seeds across a blighted cityscape.





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