Biography

Othniel Smith's previous work includes a number of plays for BBC Radio Four, including Thank-You For Talking To Me Africa (1994), and Man Talk (2001); as well as the stage play Giant Steps, which ran at the Oval House, London in 1998 (and is published in New Welsh Drama II, ed. Jeff Teare, Parthian Books, 2001). He was one of the authors of The Exquisite Corpse, which was performed by the theatre company True/Fiction in Edinburgh, Cardiff and London (2008/2009). He is also a writer of short fiction, including War Stories (2004), commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio Four as part of their Zora Neale Hurston-inspired Every Tongue Got To Confess series of Afternoon Readings. Furthermore, he has written for a number of children's television series, including The Story Of Tracy Beaker.

Website: www.othnielsmith.co.uk

CV: othniels.blogspot.com

Blog: blakeson.blogspot.com

Yer Blues by Othniel Smith
Published by Legend Press (ISBN-13: 978-1849239660 )
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In a small town in the South Wales valleys, recovering drug-addict and nascent guitar-hero Jase Hopkins decides that the only way he can make something of himself is to finally form that band he's been talking about ever since time. Unfortunately, the best singer within a fifty-mile radius is a washed-up Tom Jones impersonator - who just happens to be his estranged father.

A story set in contemporary Britain; its subject matter - relationships, mistakes, and the potency of cheap music.