Our talented author Neil J. Smith's book got featured by Chronogram magazine for the November edition. The feature gives an overview of the book and some hard-to-miss and attention-grabbing names. You can find the feature on page 55  here.   On The Ropes is a thought-provoking book that looks into the political culture of society. Carefully it examines the matters of murders and rapes in the 1960s. The author offers a raw and unfiltered account of the atrocities of that era.   Neil J Smith comes from a family with ten siblings, and he is the fifth child. He lives Upstate with his wife and has dedicated himself to writing. Neil realized that he was being ill-educated at the schools he attended. He took a liking to the library, where he got most of his study material. He studied creative writing, poetry, and literature at New York University