bryon

Bryon was raised in a small river town in Illinois. As a young lad he worked mowing grass, doing odd jobs, and working on the farm with his grandpa and dad.

Grandpa John Smith was a farm veterinarian. Bryon spent quite a bit of time on the farm helping grandpa. Everyday on the farm had a routine that had to be followed before anything else happened. Early in the morning just before daylight someone had to feed and milk the milk cows in the barn. Someone had to feed the chickens and gather the eggs in the hen house. When all that was done it was time for breakfast. After breakfast someone had to feed the pigs. Their pen was right next to the chicken yard just south of the house. After all this was taken care of, the farm work actually began. Feeding the horses and other cows on the farm required the tractor and wagon. There was the old International F-12 that had a hand crank to start it and iron wheels and there was the much preferred Allas Chalmer's WD-45.

Sometimes the work on the farm included riding the cow ponies, Goldy and Roger, to round up either the cows or the pigs. And sometimes it required riding a tractor all day long in the hot sun. By the time Bryon was 11-12 years old he spent a lot of time driving that WD-45 back and forth across the fields.

His dad, Jesse Smith, owned a construction company, digging ditches, clearing land, building and fixing roads, building bridges, and farming. Tractors, trucks, bulldozer, cable dragline, gravel screening plant, etc. - Bryon and his brother Lionel ran them all. Most of the time dad would put them each on a job and then he would go off to another job. Sometimes they all worked on the same jobs depending on what job they were working on at the time.

Bryon and his sister's rooms were upstairs in a two story house. After several very odd occurrences and one closet door that kept coming open during that time, they came to the conclusion the house was haunted. Was it just a coincidence that door at the foot of his bed kept coming open? It had a latch and once latched you couldn't pull the door open unless you unlatched it. Yet every night that door would open. One night he put a heavy box of books against the door and the next morning the door was still closed. That pleased him until he walked past the foot of the bed to see the box of books had been pushed out away from the door. He opened the door and the door fit exactly with the angle of the side of the box of books. It was clear that door had in fact opened in the night with enough force to push that heavy box of books out into the room. The only explanation was the house was haunted.

Bryon loved comic books and would frequently spend his time writing and drawing the creations of his mind. Way back then he had imagined flying motorcycles and flying cars that soon evolved into smart vehicles with computer brains very similar to those seen years later in TV shows and movies like Knight Rider and Super Bike.

Fascinated with SCUBA diving and never missing an episode of Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges he took a SCUBA course and got his certification. In his science fiction stories he created a city on the bottom of the ocean floor. Later he developed an entire civilization of android merpeople with dolphins who patrolled the ocean. These were created by another group of people who lived in a huge spaceship. The androids farmed the ocean floor and provided sea food for those living in space. The main character of this story was introduced in the sixth novel Dark Matter as the "Mystery Man."

Secret: The Mystery Man and Megan Martin both acquired their advanced technology from the same celestial ascended beings. This is why the Delta Star has Orion's symbol on the bottom on the hover portal. The Mystery Man was conceived long before Megan Martin, but Megan Martin came into being as the result of daughter Laura's request to write a novel. Some ideas from the Mystery Man series evolved into the Megan Martin series.

It seemed that just about no matter what he came up with over the years only a few years later someone else in Hollywood came up with a very similar idea. He finally considered that all these ideas are on the cosmic continuum and it's only a matter of time before someone accesses that information. The first ones to get to market with these ideas are the ones who will receive credit for it. Once upon a time, a long time ago the prophet of God wrote, "Nothing is new in the mind of a man, what has been will be again." Could it be that our guardians are watching us, guiding us to an inevitable destination?

At 19, Bryon moved away from home and lived in Joplin, MO for about 3.5 years working on radios and building radio towers. He also studied karate and worked at a local SCUBA dive shop, taking frequent dive trips with the group. Yet he continued to write the stories that came into his mind. One day he gave one of his stories to a potential girlfriend to read and she read it then burned it. He asked her if it was really that bad and she said, "Nope, it wasn't all that bad. I just burned it to see how you would react." He wasn't mad at her but he never went to see her again. He knew he could always write another one and that's just what he did.

20-21, He was diagnosed with a serious case of T.M.J.

Bryon was around 23 years old when he moved to the Lake of the Ozarks. He ran a CB radio shop there at the Brown and Hicks truck stop on highway 54 between Camdenton and Osage Beach. He worked on radios and did installations. He also worked as a technician for Denny Hilton's Shindig Show and the Gold Nugget Junction. He did SCUBA diving salvage work and worked on and built boat docks. When he was around 25 years old he moved to the airport to work for his brother Lionel. He lived in a little trailer house beside the administration building and worked for and got his pilot license there. Lionel is the founder of Christian Wings for the World. He trains missionary pilots.

At 27 years old, he got married and moved to Fort Smith, AR. He worked at B&T coal loading river barges with coal to send to other countries. After he quit that job he began building and working on boat docks and doing diving salvage on Lake Tenkiller in Oklahoma. After nearly being run over by a speed boat while working on a diving job, being caught between two guys in boats shooting at each other, then not being paid for the job he had done, he decided it was time to change vocations. He had always wanted to get into the production business and had enough knowledge of electronics that he thought he would give it a try. They borrowed the money and bought a 3/4" Umatic ENG camera system and he began shooting local events, commercials, and finally The Great Outdoors with Barry Benton and Billy Dale Sexton's Sing America Sing that aired on national cable TV channels.

During this time Laura who was then 10 years old came to dad and asked him if they could write a book together. He said, "Yes, Laura, what would you like to write about?" They took notes, talked it over and this was the birth of The Adventures of Megan Martin: The Medallion Mystery. They wrote the novel picturing Laura as Megan Martin at the age of 15.

For the next year they worked and wrote the novel. For the following year they searched for a publisher. All the publishing agents, not having even read the manuscript, insisted the novel was a children's novel and that it was too big. They told him to cut it in half. He insisted it was not a children's novel but mainstream for the entire family. Still they insisted it was a children's novel and to cut it in half and resubmit it. During this year of bad experiences with publishing agents and not one of them who would listen to him, he wondered why they all came to the same conclusions without ever reading the manuscripts. They had no idea of the ghosts, killers, and monsters that Megan would deal with. It seemed to him that they must all be talking to each other about The Adventures of Megan Martin because they all rejected it for exactly the same reason. (FYI: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter is for a younger reader than The Adventures of Megan Martin series and yet all of her novels are larger than it.) Harry Potter fans who read The Adventures of Megan Martin tell us they like Megan Martin as well as, and some say, "Even better than Harry Potter." Certainly the readers know better than the publishing agents do.

Aprox. 45 Diagnosed with a serious case of fybromyalga and chronic fatigue syndrome caused by a sleeping disorder. The sleeping disorder is also apparently the cause for the T.M.J. that began when he was 20-21 and has continued to worsen to this day.

As many authors do these days, Bryon gave up on finding a regular publisher and turned to POD publishing as a solution. After finding a POD publisher who actually read the query letter and manuscript, the novels went to print. After publishing 6 novels his publisher decided she had done all she could do and put up the closed sign on the door. Sept. 1st 2005, all 6 of these wonderful novels will go out of print. He has been contacted by a regular publisher to submit his work to them. He decided to rewrite the first novel before submitting it. He also decided to rewrite The Underworld screenplay and submit it into a screenplay contest. 4-6-2005, the screenplay is being edited by a professional screenplay writer in Hollywood.

Bryon's wildest dream is to see The Adventures of Megan Martin on the big screen in a series to show all those agents who rejected his manuscripts and screenplays what they missed out on.