^ "Brothers' tale of invention hits book shelves".Archived from the original on 30 April 2007. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Alexander Gordon Smith".The Inventors in the City of Stolen Souls (2008) ISBN 978-3-9.The sequel, The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls was published in June 2008. The book was shortlisted for the Wow Factor, a national competition run by Waterstones and Faber and Faber publishers, and although it lost out to Sarah Wray's The Forbidden Room it was taken on by Faber and published in April 2007. In Summer 2005, Smith and his nine-year-old brother Jamie Webb began writing The Inventors, a children's novel. A follow-up guide, "Writing Bestselling Children's Books" was published in July 2007. In October 2004, Smith published a creative writing guide, "Inspired Creative Writing", for Infinite Ideas Ltd. Egg Box published a number of new poets, including Richard Evans, Ramona Herdman and poetry collective Aisle16, and continues to add to its list of books. After he stopped being around his "friends", and these experiences, along with wondering what would have happened if he kept being around this group of people, are what partly inspired the Furnace series.īetween 20 he studied English literature at the University of East Anglia, where he set up a small poetry press called Egg Box Publishing. He said he would hang out with people that had a negative influence on him. Early life ĭuring his teenage years, Smith went through what he calls a "rough patch". Alexander Gordon Smith (27 February 1979, Norwich, England) is an author of children and Young Adult fiction.
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