Author of Dark Mystery & Satirical Fiction

Randy
Smith

Bells can't be unrung. You can't unsee what you've already seen. Some stories don't let go.

The Work

Books

Cover of Someone always lets it it.

Dark Mystery & Thriller

Someone always lets it it.

Evny, greed, lust opened the door. What came out doesn't want to go back.

Cover of someone always sees.

dark mystery & thriller

someone always sees.

Watching becomes appetite, then commerce, and then terror.

Cover of someone's always watching.

Dark Mystery & Thriller

someone's always watching.

It started out small, a glance. It became a worldwide desire. Not because it was amazing. Because it gave everyone a chance to see.

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Satirical Workplace Fiction

Pistols at Dawn

The promotion was supposed to go to the best candidate. It went to the one who survived.

A Three-Book Series

Someone's

Always

Watching

Trilogy

Part mirror. Part warning. Part crystal ball. Walk backward through history to discover where it began — and follow that unspoken temptation to its inevitable end.

Someone's Always Watching Trilogy

Now Listening

The audiobook experience

"She hadn't planned to stay. But the town had other ideas."

Every word was written to be heard. Randy Smith's audiobooks are available on ElevenLabs Reader, Spotify, Barnes & Noble, and Audiobooks.com.

Writing

From the Desk

Craft

Why Every Office Has a Villain (And It's Probably Not Who You Think)

The best antagonists aren't the ones who announce themselves. They bring donuts.

Process

Writing Darkness Without Losing the Reader

There's a difference between dark and bleak. One keeps you turning pages. The other just keeps you up.

Influences

The Books That Made Me Write the Books I Write

A short, honest list. No Hemingway. You've been warned.

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