Dean’s Short Bio
Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published traditionally more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred 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 co-wrote The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and ghosts for a number of top bestselling writers.
Dean wrote books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and wrote scripts for Hollywood. One movie actually saw film.
Dean also worked as an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He now plays a role as 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 Volumes #1and #2 Are Available!
Fiction River, an original fiction anthology magazine is available for subscriptions. Unnatural Worlds, the first volume, shiped on April 23rd, 2013 and How to Save the World shipped on June 18th, 2013.
$6.99 electronic and $15.99 trade paper editions of Fiction River volumes are available at your favorite bookseller.
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Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Writing Fast
Years ago I did this series called Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing. I stopped doing this because I hoped for a time that indie publishing would murder a few of the myths on its own, but sadly, it hasn’t. … Continue reading
Two New Lectures on Publishing and Writing
We have added two new lectures in the WMG Publishing Lecture Series. I did them both this time. These are video lectures and both run over an hour in eight videos each. You can find the full list of lectures … Continue reading
One More Agent Question
I’m about to put up the new Goals and Dreams post to help writers get started in 2013. But before I do, because of the great discussion after that last agent post, I’ve been having a very hard time trying … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: eBooks at 25%
This last week it was announced that ebooks are now about 25% of all trade book sales. (From a survey of over 1,200 publishers.) And the rate of increase has slowed and is leveling out. Yup, about what I expected … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Blurb Writing
As I said in the first post of this short series, I will take a few areas of publishing and compare them across, from indie to traditional. The differences, the beliefs, the myths, and how things are actually done. The … Continue reading
Some Star Trek Fun and History
Last week in the mail I got this huge packet of royalty statements from Pocket Books. Now understand, when I say huge, I mean huge. Maybe 200 pages. I’ve written shorter novels to be honest. These statements are only for … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Book Pricing from Another Perspective
Teri Babcock posted the following comment on the last article I wrote in this series and I asked her for permission to move it to the front page. Thanks, Teri, for permission to use it here. Teri’s comment is spot … Continue reading
Agent Fun and Stupidity
An agent the other day did a tweet that has to be right up there with the stupidest thing I have ever heard come out of an agent’s mouth, and I’ve heard some pretty damn stupid stuff over the years. … Continue reading
New World of Publishing: Failure is an Option. Quitting is Not.
The First of the “Goals and Dreams 2012 Series” I’ll bet a few of you got very uneasy by me starting off a goals and dreams series of blogs with the words: “Failure is an Option.” That’s right, you must … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: 95% of All Authors Will Never Indie Publish
Mike Stackpole, on his blog this last week talked about how traditional publishing traps and holds writers. The Passive Guy also talked about this post by Mike. It is a post that I suggest everyone should read, even those of … Continue reading
