Wm. Hovey Smith
B.S., MS., PG
Business Start-Up, Entrepreneur, Public Speaking, Life Change Expert

Wm. Hovey Smith Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Physical and Economic Survival
- Best Sellers
- Create Your Own Job Security, Backyard Deer Hunting, Crossbow Hunting, Practical Bowfishing, X-Treme Muzzleloading
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Business Consultant, Survivalist, Knife Maker
- Affiliation
- www.HoveySmith.com, GOWA, POMA, Hovey's Knives of China,
Wm. Hovey Smith holds degrees from the Universities of Georgia and Alaska, is a Professional Geologist registered in Georgia, has been a decorated Engineer Officer in the U.S. Army, is the author of 18 books, a former radio host, does stand-up comedy, is a wild game cook, a business consultant, and is an international speaker on environmental and business topics. He is or has been a member of several professional writers organizations including the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) and the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA). His most recent book is "Create Your Own Job Security: Plan to Start Your Own Business at Midlife," which gives detailed instructions on how to select your best business possibility at the moment and how to plan ahead to take advantage of other opportunities. One potential objective is to discover a business that you love so much that you would do it even if no one paid you and how to make money at it. One purpose of the book is to show how anyone, at any age, and any time can start their own successful business to solve their immediate financial problems and occomplish their life objectives. Among the strategies advocated in the book is that a person start his own business while working for others, run it at a low level while collecting health insurance and benefits and then; should he be abrubtly dismissed from his job, he already has a proven business to fall back on. This approaps avoids flailing about trying to conceive of something to do while in the midst of the worse depression that the individual has experienced in his entire life. This book is supplemented by a blog: https://createyourownjobsecurity.com and YouTub videos on the Hovey Smith Channel.
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My Recording Inside Success Video Shoot Miami 2026
Added to the honors I have received including being elected to Who's Who in America and scores of awards for my outdoor books, novels, and screenplays I was selected to be among the first authors to be interviewed for a new Inside Success American Authors series filmed in the organization's new studio in Miami.
September 5, 2026
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Job Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown-Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker
Job Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker
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Wrap Up Wednesdays
Wrap Up Wednesdays Consolidate Plans for End of Week Presentations.
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Property Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog
Property Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine and what’s theirs is mine if I can get it.
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Regular Order: Natural Law According to the Dog
Regular Order According to the Dog All actions by my humans must be done the same way every day.
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Spring Break is THE Time for Authors to Sell to Universities
Spring Break Is THE Time For Authors to Sell to Universities
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Ads for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money
Ads for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money You can have ads for your business or service that circulate worldwide, contain exactly the content that you want, stay up forever and pay you money.
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Incorporating Outdoor Materials into Novels
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Business Ed at the Movies
Wm. Hovey Smith is a registered Professional Geologist in Georgia. He is also a member of several writers’ organizations including the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) and the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA). He is the author of 18 books with his most recent title being “Create Your Own Job Security: Plan to Start Your Own Business at Midlife.” He has been a radio host and does public speaking on work and environmental topics with appearances in the U.S., Europe and China.
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When To Do A New Website
Technology and activities change throughout life. When I posted my first website a decade ago I had written a series of self-published books, sold one to a conventional publisher and was writing others. Because my newest book "Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting Deer To Dinner For Pennies Per Pound" was to be self-published and lacked the support of a publishing house, I started my first web site, titled "Backyard Deer Hunting" to match the theme of the book.
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Evaluate Skills Before Starting Business
If you don’t know where you are, you can’t know where to go. One of the most difficult tasks that beginning entrepreneurs have is to make a realistic evaluation of their own abilities. Lesson 4 of my LearnDesk series covers a series of points from personal appearance to communication skills. No one likely has all the skills to run a successful business. The objective of this lesson is to have viewers systematically evaluate different aspects of the business world to determine which aspects they need to improve, and which are best farmed out to others.
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The Case for a Child Parent Hunt
The Case for a Child-Parent Huntr Wm. Hovey Smith November 4, 2019
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The common theme through all of my books, videos, radio shows and public speaking is illustrating how people can, and should, take charge of their own lives during times of natural disasters and financial uncertainties to insure the safety and economic well being of their families.