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Kenneth George

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Born

in Ashford Common, The United Kingdom

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http://smithkeng.wix.com/ken-smith

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Fiction, Crime, Suspense

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Kenneth George was born in Ashford Common Middlesex, During the home computer revolution of 1980s he wrote for a computer magazine but gave it up in order to go to university. Now retired, he is writing again, but now he concentrates on fiction

He has had two short stories cherry picked by ABCtales and his story "two widows" won the 2016 Shaftesbury Story Slam.

He currently lives in Lincolnshire.

You can also find Ken's work on:

http://storiesonline.net

under the name of DeYaKen:

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Average rating: 4.55 · 29 ratings · 4 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Unsold Child 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 17 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waterloo Sunset 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worth Fighting For: Sometimes you have to fight for the one you believe in. by Kenneth George (Goodreads Author), K.G. Smith 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky Man it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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American sales.

People will tell you that if you want to sell books in the USA you have to set them in the USA and write the book in American. That makes the American reader seam very lazy and I'm not at all sure that it's true.

Since I started using Book Report I've noticed where my books are selling. The sales are almost exclusively in the USA and Canada. Only one of my three books is set in the US at all and t Read more of this blog post »

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“There are only two types of people who attempt to predict the future. Those that don't know, and those that don't know they don't know." J. K. Galbraith”
― K.G. Smith

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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“... as fur sneak nuclear attacks on anithir country, there was only wan state in history had ever done that, an it wiznae the fuckin Soviet Union.' - McCann”
― Iain Banks, Espedair Street

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“There are only two types of people who attempt to predict the future. Those that don't know, and those that don't know they don't know." J. K. Galbraith”
― K.G. Smith

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