Martin J. Smith is a veteran journalist and magazine editor who has won more than forty newspaper and magazine writing awards. A former senior editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he currently is editor-in-chief of Orange Coast magazine in Newport Beach, Calif. He is the author of three crime novels, Time Release, Shadow Image, and the Edgar Award-nominated Straw Men. He also is co-author, with Patrick J. Kiger, of OOPS: 20 Life Lessons From The Fiascos That Shaped America (Collins, 2006), which Publishers Weekly called "as informative as it is entertaining," and POPLORICA: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore That Shaped Modern America (HarperResource, 2004), now in paperback, about which Publishers Weekly concluded: “All history should be this much fun.” Smith lives with his wife and their two children in Southern California. He currently is working on a new novel.

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