Timothy Jay Smith
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Timothy Jay Smith has traveled the world collecting stories and characters for his novels, screenplays and stage plays which have received high praise. Istanbul Crossing has won or placed in contests for novels-in-progress and best opening chapter. Fire on the Island won the Gold Medal in the 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for the Novel. The Fourth Courier was a finalist for Best Gay Mystery in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards. He won the Paris Prize for Fiction for A Vision of Angels. Kirkus Reviews called Cooper’s Promise “literary dynamite” and selected it as one of the Best Books of 2012. Tim was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize. All together, his novels, stage plays and screenplays have won or placed in some 150 competitions.
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Istanbul Crossing
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LGBTQ Thriller
In Istanbul Crossing, a young Syrian watches his cousin executed by ISIS for being homosexual, then flees to Istanbul for safety. He develops such a good reputation for his resourcefulness in smuggling other refugees to Greece that he’s approached by both the CIA and ISIS to smuggle high-profile individuals on the run, putting him in grave danger in many ways. In the process of juggling their two operations, he falls in love with, and must decide between, two men who offer him very different futures. 
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Fire on the Island
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LGBTQ Mystery
After a string of mysterious fires breaks out on a small Greek island, undercover FBI agent Nick Damigos arrives to investigate, showing up just in time to save a beloved truffle-sniffing dog from the most recent inferno. But as Nick searches for the arsonist responsible, he finds himself navigating a community rife with conflicts, some of which go back generations. As the threat of the next fire looms, Nick begins to uncover the villagers’ countless buried secrets. But Nick has secrets too, and as he falls for a young bartender who becomes his prime suspect, he becomes entrenched in the very mystery he’s trying to solve. With time running out to prevent catastrophe, will Nick expose the truth and save the village, or will the island be engulfed in a blaze of vengeance and heartbreak? 
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