About me:

"When you were a child I was always afraid you would turn out normal. I'm proud to see your demented creativity." -- Walter A. Smith, my Father.

Freelance writer Tony Smith lives in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania with his partner and their politely demanding beagle Molly and hasn’t had a real firm grasp on reality since he was six-years old. Even when he does get a grasp on reality, he tends to act like a six-year-old.

Smith started writing short horror fiction in 1996 and was a member of the infamous DarkEcho Horror Writer’s Workshop from about 1996 – 2000. Although he wrote dozens of stories during this time period, most of them went unfinished because he lacked true motivation. He was also too young at the time to have any clue what he was writing about. But, during his “baby step” days, he was fortunate to receive critiques and feedback from horror pros like Paula Guran and John R. Platt as well as other, lesser-known editors who rejected his work very kindly. Impatient and impetuous, Smith was easily sucked under by the drudgery of “real life” for a while before he started writing comic books in 2006.

Tony contributed four stories and edited the inaugural issue of Queerbait, an GLBT comic book anthology featuring a diverse collection of stories by comics’ next generation of writers and artists.

He has also written for Prism Comics, Fan-Atic Press, CBG Comics, Pride Comics and Twisted Gate Entertainment. Smith has also published various articles and GLBT comic book creator interviews at AssociatedContent.com and PrintNPost.com.

Currently, he’s returning to his literary roots and is writing short horror fiction again under the pen name Sean Michael Smith. His most recent endeavor is editing/publishing an online e-zine called Flashes In The Dark which features short horror fiction under 1,000 words EVERY day. He also has stories published at MicroHorror.com and has an upcoming drabble in Necrotic Tissue and flash fiction in Tales From The Moonlit Path .