Bryan Smith

The abandoned house at the end of Millhaven Road stands on blighted and barren ground, as if nature itself shuns this tainted place. It is known simply as Dead End House, and unspeakably terrible things happened there long ago. Murder, torture, mutilations, cannibalism, and necrophilia. Vile deeds spawning an enduring legend of horror. But Dead End House only looks abandoned. Behind its blacked-out windows and crumbling facade, the evil endures. So step up to the front door and knock if you dare. Crazy Calvin and his lunatic sister have been sharpening their knives and are eager to see you.

Being grateful for what you have is a lesson for a lifetime. Follow a young character who finds joy in the little things.

Isaac is a young kid who always - ALWAYS - puts fun first. No matter where he is or what he needs to do, Isaac doesn't want to waste time being bored. So instead of finishing a dull math worksheet, he watches a robot gobble up numbers. Instead of straightening up his room, he crams all his toys, dirty clothes, and games into a closet and declares all is clean Instead of working on his tennis skills, he goofs around and creates a commotion on the court. Isaac is so busy looking to have fun, he forgets about his responsibilities and all the work he needs to finish. Will it make any difference when a caring teacher introduces Isaac to four simple steps that can help him focus and finish his tasks? Or will Isaac keep making more work for himself by putting fun first? In the story, Isaac learns that if he can follow the steps to completing a task, he'll still have time for fun. He needs to: 1. Identify what needs to get done. 2. Give the task his full attention. 3. Make sure the work is done the right way. 4. Continue working until the job is complete. This amusing tale delivers a valuable message to kids about the importance of having a strong work ethic and maintaining a balance between work and fun. Tips for educators, counselors and parents are included to help teach this important skill. Are You Working Hard or Hardly Working is part of the popular Stepping Up Social Skills book series, which is written for students in Grades K through 5 who are struggling with staying on task. Help your children succeed by teaching them important skills such as impulse control, self-reliance, and completing a task with the Stepping Up Social Skillsbook series. But I Need Your Help Now - A story teaching how to get an adult's attention, and when it is okay to interrupt.What's Your Choice? - A story about making the best choice, even when it's not fun.Are You Working Hard or Hardly Working? - A story about staying on task until the work is done.

Braden's schoolwork seems to be getting tougher. Word problems are more complicated. Reading passages are longer. When he's quizzed on details, they seem to be getting lost in translation. And this is carrying over to home, too With help from a caring teacher and plenty of opportunities to practice at home, Braden starts to learn and practice strategies for improving his working memory Author and School Counselor Bryan Smith offers another funny but relevant story in the very popular Executive Function series. The included strategies are sure to be useful to all young people (and adults) Examples model breaking down complex problems into smaller, manageable tasks, using mnemonic devices, visualization, and other practical tools for improving working memory Great for students in grades K through 6 and the adults in their lives Included at the end of the story are tips for parents and educators to help children practice and improve working memory. The series also includes: What Were You Thinking?My Day Is Ruined It Was Just Right Here Of Course It's a Big Deal Time to Get Started What's the Problem?How Did You Miss That?I'll Never Get All of That Done Fix It With Focus

Pete Adler is a man with problems. He's a shy social outcast with no real friends. His luck with women has been spotty at best. A hostile work environment has made his life a living hell for months on end. For Pete, the weekend comes as a welcome respite from these things, but early Saturday morning he finds a beautiful and scantily clad dead woman on his couch. He has no idea who she is or how she got there. Is this a frame-up? Did he kill her in a blackout? Answers to these questions are elusive at first, but then the last woman he ever dated shows up on his doorstep out of the blue and things get seriously complicated from there. Blood is spilled. More bodies pile up. Pete is pushed to his limits as he is forced to do many strange and horrible things. A deadly game is being played and Pete is the ultimate pawn, with his fate coming down to a race against time.

GRAND CLASSIC SCIENCE-FICTION SPACE ADVENTURE IN THE TRADITION OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN STRANDED AND SURROUNDED --First In Bryan Smith's "Colonel Landry" Space Adventure Series. It is the 25th Century. The space cruiser Beagle, under the command of Colonel Kendrick Landry, explores a planet ravaged by war millennia ago, now inhabited by hostile savage humanoids. The Beagle is shot down and grounded by an ancient, mechanized planetary defense network created by an advanced civilization long pre-dating the humanoid savages. The humanoids abduct two women officers: the sexy and sultry Maya Terrazone and the bright but petulant Veronica Winters. Colonel Landry leads a rescue party to find and bring back the two women with the help of Veronica's pet telepathic alien tiger Jones. But if the women still live and Landry rescues them, can his group survive another crossing of the desert terrain--teeming with the savage humanoids--to return to the Beagle? The humanoids are going extinct because long-ago biological warfare killed all the females. Can the Beagle genetic scientists create females to distract the savage male humanoids and permit the crew to make repairs and escape? But even if the Beagle crew makes repairs and regains orbit around the planet, then the ancient planetary defense network may fire upon them a second--and likely fatal--final time. GOLDEN WRITING, MEMORABLE CHARACTERS A lean and flowing prose style. A well-crafted plot. Well-developed characters. The beautiful and temperamental Veronica Winters.The supremely sexual and tough while yet sensitive Maya Terrazone. Colonel Kendrick Landry is a supremely focused, capable, and yet vulnerable man. Still haunted by a near-death event of many years ago. The reader is drawn deep under his skin, and views the distant world of "Sigma Theta III" from his perspective as he struggles desperately to save his crew and himself from becoming hopelessly marooned and dying on the planet. The novel creates a stark vision of determined men and women fighting for survival against overwhelming odds. THE SCIENCE OF "FERAL PLANET" Much of the Sci-Fi space adventure of today makes only routine and passing reference to such concepts as faster-than-light space travel and the "beaming" of characters from one location to another. Concepts that were staples of the Golden Age Sci-Fi of the 1950's and 1960's and provided inspiration for much filmography including of course the famous "Star Trek" franchise. Golden Age Sci-Fi coined the term "astrogation" for navigation in space. Later sci-fi defaulted to the term "navigator" (e.g. Mr. Sulu in Star Trek). "Feral Planet" adopts the terms "astrogation" and "astrogator" in part as a tribute to the Sci-Fi Golden Age. "Feral Planet" gives particular attention to faster than light travel accomplished by way of "space warping" as written about in scientific journals by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre. The novel provides detail as to how such processes might actually work. A RENAISSANCE OF SPACE OPERA "Feral Planet" harkens back to Science Fiction's Golden Age of such distinguished writers as Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, and H. Beam Piper. Yet the novel achieves its own fresh modern originality. Good Sci-Fi "Space Opera" has become a rarity today. But for lovers of the genre "Feral Planet" marks a fresh new resurgence of an old favorite. The novel is compelling modern Sci-Fi Space Opera at its best. "Feral Planet" will be a welcome relief for readers tired out of the contemporary vogue clich s of vampires, werewolves, dragons and princesses, galactic empires, and "star wars." FIRST OF A SERIES "Feral Planet" is the first in the Colonel Landry Space Adventure Series. Four other novels in the series are scheduled for release: --Dome of Slavery --Final Battle --In Search of Kronos --Amira, Warrior Queen of Cruciba

My name is Bryan. Mental health has been part of my journey since a very young age. Life hasn't been easy; every step has been a challenge. But through every hardship, and because of the people who shaped me, both the ones who hurt and the ones who helped, I've become who I am today. With unwavering support and the strength, I've found in my own journey, I've written my first book: The Hardest Walk a raw and honest reflection of survival, resilience, and growth. To be continued...

My name is Bryan. Mental health has been part of my journey since a very young age. Life hasn't been easy; every step has been a challenge. But through every hardship, and because of the people who shaped me, both the ones who hurt and the ones who helped, I've become who I am today. With unwavering support and the strength, I've found in my own journey, I've written my first book: The Hardest Walk a raw and honest reflection of survival, resilience, and growth. To be continued...

This triple dose of terror compiles three Bryan Smith novellas never previously published in paperback. In THE HALLOWEEN BRIDE, a mysterious woman in black lures a grieving widower through a crack in reality to Willowblack Lane, where Halloween is eternal and a clue to the truth behind his wife's untimely death awaits. BLOODRUSH is a tale of vampiric compulsion and one man's descent into helpless obsession with a beautiful and merciless priestess of the undead. THE DIABOLICAL CONSPIRACY looks at the Satanic truth behind the idyllic serenity of a seemingly perfect suburban neighborhood. Behind the mundane fa ade of ordinary life lurks an underbelly of darkness few wish to acknowledge, an insidious evil force driven by an insatiable need to corrupt and destroy. Some are aware of its presence but try not to think about it in the interest of preserving precious illusions. Yet that feeling remains, bubbling under the surface, that dreadful suspicion the unknown thing lurking in the dark will soon rise up . . . and consume.

The moment Rob Scott first sees tattooed and sexy Roxie Wallace heading his way, he thinks he's met the girl of his dreams, a Bettie Page dead ringer with a gothic twist. Then Roxie shows him her gun and the next thing he knows he's road-tripping with a psychopath hellbent on paying back the preppy spring breakers who insulted her at a coffee shop. Before long he's hopelessly caught up in a whirlwind of frenzied, shocking violence, with no way out. After a while, he's not even totally sure he wants out. To the spoiled rich kids on spring break, the rented beach house seemed like the perfect setting for an extended party, but the unhinged killers about to crash the party think the house is perfect too-the neighbors are too far away to hear the screams that will soon fill the night. One by one as the night of terror wears on, the college friends will learn the gruesome results of meeting a very different kind of people ... THE KILLING KIND

All families have secrets, but some secrets are bigger, darker, and bloodier than others. Zach and Chelsea grew up in idyllic suburbia. Then one day their father vanished without explanation, ripping their world apart. A year later, a dangerous man shows up looking for him, a man who claims to hunt monsters and things that go bump in the night. Soon the siblings are swept up in a whirlwind of violence and chaos, locked in a desperate attempt to elude the police as well as the mysterious organization of monster hunters. In the process of fighting to stay free and alive, they unearth all the secret things kept hidden from them their entire lives. Scary, shocking things. And nothing will ever be the same again.

Beleth Station has seen better days, days long since lost to time. A tiny dot on the map beyond a two-hour drive to any one city. It’s a forgotten place to all except the unfortunate souls who were born there, folks who are barely hanging on and will likely never leave. Beleth Station was once a thriving town in the Pennsylvania mountains, but ever since the Medallion Paper Mill closed, things haven’t been the same. Rumors spread of cancer clusters and benzene in the local water supply, but Medallion went bankrupt before an investigation could conclude. Now the town’s inhabitants—descendents of the old mill workers, make do in industries that are less than savory, and what remains of the mill is just a vacant haunt where bored teenagers like to wander at night, either hoping to scare the piss out of their buddies, or looking for a quiet corner to get laid. Of course, it’s also home to a few vagrants, some looking to get blasted in peace and others with more predatory intentions. Newly-in-love outsiders Krista Mabry and Nick Rawlison have seen better days, too, now that they’ve ended up in the seedy town of Beleth Station, where untold horrors await. Authors Samantha Kolesnik and Bryan Smith present two unique tales of brutal terror in BELETH STATION, a novella duo featuring Kolesnik’s A Night to Remember and Smith’s The Gauntlet. Set in the same town and in a shared universe, Smith and Kolesnik present two sides of the same sordid coin as we follow lovebirds Nick and Krista into the heart of Beleth Station, where corruption and depravity reign.