Dean’s Short Bio
Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred published short stories. His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.
Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.
Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He is now an executive editor for Fiction River.
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WMG Publishing Inc. is now my major publisher of all my coming novels, collections, and short stories.
Fiction River Volume #1 Is Available!
Fiction River, an original fiction anthology magazine edited by me and Kristine Kathryn Rusch is available for subscriptions. Unnatural Worlds, the first volume, shiped on April 23rd.
$6.99 electronic and $15.99 trade paper editions of Fiction River: Unnatural Worlds are available at your favorite bookseller..
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Author Archives: dwsmith
A Fun Fiction River Experiment
Jane, in the WMG Publishing audio department showed this to me the other day and I thought it great fun. She said it was an experiment and she had put it together in a few minutes. WMG Publishing will be … Continue reading
New Books Out
Finally, I’ve moved back into getting the short story books out to the subscribers who have been fantastically nice about me getting behind. The eight trade paper books below will be shipped out tomorrow and I hope to send out … Continue reading
A Passive Guy Opinion
The other day, in response to a really, really silly article from someplace in traditional publishing, the Passive Guy from the great web site The Passive Voice decided to voice an opinion on traditional and indie publishing. As a person … Continue reading
June and July Online Workshop Schedule
About the middle of every month I put up a post about the coming workshops in the month or so ahead. We have a number of new workshops that we will announce shortly, as well as more in the lecture … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Books into Stores
A week or so ago I did a blog about the death of the use of the term “print run.” Mostly silence. Both in the comments and in letters. I love it when that happens for a couple of reasons. … Continue reading
Unnatural Worlds: Fiction River Volume #1 is now up on Audio
Even though everyone at WMG Publishing is tired after the week-long workshop, they are excited about having the first Fiction River volume up and available for sale on audio. This took a lot work by Jane in the audio department … Continue reading
Stay Tuned… I’m Having Far Too Much Fun
I have not died since that last post about print runs. Honest. We have a great POD workshop going on here at the coast in the offices of WMG Publishing with great writers. Wonderful fun, so I’m staying up far … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: What Is A Print Run, Grandpa?
I can imagine myself in thirty years sitting in a bar, my cane nearby to fight off any unwanted advances from elderly women while Kris sits there laughing at my delusions. Then suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, a young writer … Continue reading
Learn Covers and Book Interiors
This is a flat pitch. (grin) In six short weeks, the publisher of WMG Publishing, Allyson Longueira and I can teach you how to design professional level books, both covers and interiors. If you are wondering what some of our … Continue reading
Some Fun Calculations
My friend Scott William Carter has done this at times for some of our workshops. I did this years ago a number of times on white boards, not believing the money and totals. Now Jeff Posey has done a very … Continue reading
