{"id":11087,"date":"2015-10-27T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T05:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11087"},"modified":"2015-10-22T05:19:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T10:19:58","slug":"trees-by-sam-smith-guest-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11087","title":{"rendered":"TREES by Sam Smith ~ GUEST POST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to Melanie Robertson-King for asking me to guest on her blog and, as importantly, for telling me how to do it. Because, although I\u2019ve done many things sub-literary in my writing life \u2013 organised poetry festivals and book fairs, run a small press, <strong>Original Plus<\/strong>, and for nearly 20 years now the poetry magazine <em>The Journal<\/em> (once \u2018of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry\u2019); and although I\u2019ve had many publishers of my work, 2 of which went disastrously bust while I was working as editor for them, Safkhet Publishing is the first that has suggested that I be a guest blogger. The novel by the way is <strong><em>Trees<\/em><\/strong> and Safkhet are based in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trees.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"908\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trees.jpg 908w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trees-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trees-664x1024.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m based in the UK on the Cumbrian coast. Maryport describes itself as \u2018By the sea near the Lakes.\u2019 Not wholly sure how I ended up here, suffice to say that I like walking over mountains and I\u2019ve moved about a bit. And my daughter Shelley Carmen was living in Edinburgh at the time we last moved. My usual author biog says, \u2018\u2026 I was born Blackpool 1946, am now living in Maryport, Cumbria. A freelance writer, I have been a psychiatric nurse, residential social worker, milkman, plumber, laboratory analyst, groundsman, sailor, computer operator, scaffolder, gardener, painter &amp; decorator&#8230;. working at anything, in fact, which has paid the rent, enabled me to raise my three daughters and which hasn&#8217;t got too much in the way of my writing.\u2019 All of my daughters, and grandchildren, now live in the south, which annoyingly means I see a lot of the M6.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a picture of me on a mountain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sssmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11089 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sssmith.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"372\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sssmith.jpg 372w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sssmith-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The currently popular singer Sam Smith by the way is a clone. One of many talented individuals, male and female, bearing my monicker. We altered singer Sam\u2019s DNA and gave him a musical gene. Hope that clears up any confusion.<\/p>\n<p>But about <strong><em>Trees<\/em><\/strong><em>\u2026 <\/em>The initial publicity says \u2018As H was for Hawk will T now be for Trees? D for Distraction? P for Platonic? S for Sam? Or Smith?\u2019 Which I hope will give putative readers a decent clue to the book\u2019s contents. \u2018H for Hawk\u2019 concerned itself with a reconciling of the bereaved through falconry. <strong><em>Trees<\/em><\/strong> has a different death, an adopted daughter, and the mother finding solace through helping her birth father in his attempt to reforest as much as he can of England. Consequently each chapter has throughout descriptions of trees and diagrammatic representations of trees. (A labour of love <strong><em>Trees<\/em><\/strong> has taken me years to complete.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11090 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree1.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"203\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11091 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree2.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"86\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11092 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree3.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"149\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11093 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tree4.jpg\" alt=\"trees\" width=\"133\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although death might be the central feature of <em><strong>Trees<\/strong><\/em> what it mostly concerns itself with is the nature of family, and of those relationships beyond. Of friendships, and resentments, people we work with, of in-laws and outlaws. Of desires contained, physical capabilities and incapacities, sexual orientation, and trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safkhet<\/strong> has set 31<sup>st<\/sup> October as the release date for <strong><em>Trees<\/em><\/strong>. You can read more about <strong><em>Trees<\/em><\/strong> here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safkhetpublishing.com\/books\/suspense\/Trees.html\">http:\/\/www.safkhetpublishing.com\/books\/suspense\/Trees.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Trees-Sam-Smith-ebook\/dp\/B016L0BBXM\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1444805525&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=sam+smith%2C+trees\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Trees-Sam-Smith-ebook\/dp\/B016L0BBXM\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1444805525&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=sam+smith%2C+trees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other of my books are featured here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/samsmithbooks.weebly.com\">http:\/\/samsmithbooks.weebly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Journal<\/em> and <strong>Original Plus<\/strong> here \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/thesamsmith.webs.com\/\">http:\/\/thesamsmith.webs.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to Melanie Robertson-King for asking me to guest on her blog and, as importantly, for telling me how to do it. 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