Personal Page for Bryon Smith

Born and raised in a small river town in Illinois he worked doing odd jobs, mowing yards, working on the farm and with his dad on construction work using tractors, trucks, bulldozers, cable draglines and more.

He played lead and rhythm 6 string guitar in a country band "The Country Dudes" for about 2 years. Still plays guitar now and then with friends.

Around 16-17 got certified for S.C.U.B.A. diving by former Navy Seal instructor Jerry Stocker in Jacksonville, IL.

Raised with a Christian background and having certain paranormal experiences realized there was logic and reason and a lot more to the story than what was being taught in the churches or the schools. After having a very close encounter with a UFO in 1970 he realized that just because people say they don't exist, doesn't make it so. He knew there was a truth beyond what the people choose to believe and he set out to discover as much truth as humanly possible.

At 19 he moved to Joplin. MO and went to work for Communication Specialists. A Motorola service working on business band radios, building towers and doing strip and installs for all kinds of businesses including the city police departments in Joplin and other towns and cities around the area. Also worked for the manager of the John the Diver's store #3 in Joplin, MO.

At 22 he moved to the Lake of the Ozarks and ran a CB radio shop for 3 years. He lived in the Ozark hills not far from the lake until the CB business was no longer profitable. At this same time he worked as an electronics technician for one of the popular lake shows known at that time as "Denny Hilton's Country Shindig Show." Also began professional Diving Salvage jobs recovering lost boats and things from the bottom of the lake.

At 25-26 he moved to the Camdenton, MO airport where he worked as airport lineman and security for the next 2-3 years. This is where he worked for and got his pilot license, PSEL. During this same time he also built custom made boat docks and continued SCUBA diving salvage work.

At 28 he married and moved to AR. At first worked for B&T Coal processing coal and loading river barges with coal. Still did some radio work, SCUBA diving work and boat dock work for about 5 more years then transferred into video production work and writing.

Bryon has been fascinated with writing, art, science fiction, and one day wrote a musing called Nebula that won second place out of 58,000 entries in Voices of Many Lands.

Throughout his life he has had numerous paranormal encounters including near death experiences, many out of body experiences, has walked among the spirits and has gained an unusual understanding of the Creator, spirits and the why we exist. To learn more please see "Spiritual Things" website.

Bryon has been on TV, radio and websites as a special guest speaker.

Bryon was a special guest speaker at the Universal Passing Over in Vegas in 2006.

Has shot numerous TV shows including "The Great Outdoors with Barry Benton" and "Sing America Sing" with Billy Dale Sexton. Shot numerous plays and events. A TV show he worked on is "Ghosts of Piper's" for Victoria Monroe. This show airs in Nevada and California.

Currently working on the paranormal TV show "Spooky Places" for Loose Canon Productions owned by Bryon and his wife Dawn. "We don't fake anything." (Bryon Smith)

Bryon wrote an excellent screenplay based on his second novel "The Underworld." The screenplay is called "Project Fallen Angel." This screenplay can be downloaded for free from the Megan Martin website.

Learning screen writing and finding out it's a different kind of animal. Don't intend to move to LA to get an agent.

Bryon and Dawn have two beautiful daughters, Laura and Kristy. You can see their pictures on the covers of his novels, Laura as Megan Martin and Kristy as Brianna the neighbor girl. They are also the hostess of the TV show they are working on now called Spooky Places. Use the links in the menu to the left to view these pictures and websites.

Things I've Learned Thus Far

Never blame God for the stupid things people do, preach or believe in. It's not God's fault people are stupid.

Never trust anyone in the music, film or TV industry. I've personally lost more than $50,000 working for these kinds of people. Aside from politicians no one that I know of is more deceptive and cut throat. They can smile in your face, pat you on the back and pick your pocket so fast you won't know you've been hand until you get home.

Never try to judge an actor's character based on what you see on the TV and movies. They are never the people they appear to be.

Never send or give a book or manuscript to a professional actor for any reason! They can't help you in any way and usually won't even appreciate the gift.

Never trust a politician to tell the truth. They are trained from a young age to tell the people just what they want to hear. They are artful liars.

Never ask a friend or loved one to critique your manuscript or script. If they like you they they will tell you they like it even if they don't. If they are honest with you and tell you they don't care for it you may prefer they had not. It's a tough business.

Never move to LA thinking you are going to become a screenwriter. The LA area is all ready full of out of work screenwriters. Even if your work is more original and better than some of the others they will still sell their work before you will because they have been there longer and know more people in the business. Hollywood producers buy crap every day because someone kissed the right ass.

Never enter a contest thinking to get your break. You can have the best screenplay out there but you are more likely to be struck by lighting than to win. The contest people make part of their living by taking submissions from hopeful new authors. They know that most of them have spent $1000s and years learning their trade and they are desperate to sell something. Their intentions is to keep those new authors entering their contests to keep the contest people in a job. If they were really interested in those screenplays they would be making their money acting as an agent for those new screenwriters. They would be paying the screen writers instead of the other way around.

Never join a multi-level marketing scheme thinking your finally going to make enough to pay the bills. These companies own other companies and that's how they make most of their money. I know because we were with Amway long enough to be invited into a secret meeting where they explained that in order to make the big money we needed to buy stocks in other companies owned by the mother company. Right after that our chain all the way to our triple diamonds quit and started their own businesses. Right after that Amway's mother company changed the name of Amway. These companies will take your money and someone will laugh all the way to the bank but it won't be you.

Just because a person has a collage education and reads books constantly doesn't mean they are qualified to edit your manuscript. Ever see that thing that asks you to count the "F's" in a paragraph? There's always at least two or three "F's" you never count. Likewise quite a lot of educated people read a story for the story line itself, not for the quality of the writing.

It makes no difference what you ask for when you know you won't get anything for your efforts.

A preacher and a con artist have the same skill sets. They both talk people out of things. The difference is the preacher does it in the name of God then hides behind verses from the bible to justify what they do. I'm not talking about donations to a church for Sunday service. I'm talking when they con people out of hard earned cash and items that are important to them outside of the morning offering. Then the people find out the preacher never intended to use those things for the purpose they said. Never intended to honor the deal they made with the one who provided the cash or items.