He has also written screenplays for the Brazilian film A Partilha[1] and Playing God[2] as well as television shows The Magnificent Seven,[3] Star Trek: Voyager,[4] and Martial Law.
Smith spent the next decade working on films doing uncredited rewrites, most notably on Anaconda and Excess Baggage, both produced by Columbia Pictures.
His first, Moist, was published in 2002 by St. Martin's Press and optioned by DreamWorks Pictures for a film with Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen producing and Barry Sonnenfeld directing.
His first book of non-fiction was published in 2012, The Heart of Dankness, explores the world of underground botanists, outlaw farmers, and renegade strain hunters who pursue excellence and diversity in producing world-class cannabis.
Rude Talk in Athens published in 2021, is a speculative biography of the 5th century BCE writer Ariphrades and his rival Aristophanes.