Ian Smith was ordering books by Victor Bruno from Olympia when he saw their advert for
authors and sent in a sample script. His first book, "The Wench Whackers' Ball" - later
retitled "Ali, Slavegirl Incarnate" - was published less than three months later. Now, ten
years later, he has written and seen published over twenty books.

	A keen writer since childhood (and now in his forties), Ian enjoys trying to project the
feelings of innocent girls caught up in fantastic and daunting circumstances. Sometimes he
starts with a planned outline of a book, but often with just a single idea which develops
along the way. Some of his books run in series, with recurring characters, others are
one-offs.

	Ian always has at least half a dozen ideas for more books and gradually those ideas are
turned into reality.  But then some more ideas turn up ...