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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Category Archives: Recommended 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
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
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
Fiction River: Unnatural Worlds Shipped
I am excited to say that Fiction River Volume #1: Unnatural Worlds has shipped. You can buy copies if you didn’t subscribe at any of your favorite booksellers. If you have a subscription or were one of the wonderful people … Continue reading
How the Publishing World Has Changed.
You want to get a very, very clear image of the change in the publishing industry, Kris details it out in her own journey through four years of her blog. She’s honest about how she felt and how her beliefs … Continue reading
A Great Basic Workshop
Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, David Farland, Eric Flint, and Brandon Sanderson do a great three day workshop every year called SuperStars. I was one of the guest speakers there last year and had a blast and was very impressed. … Continue reading
Ella Distribution Publisher Information
For those of you indie publishers with questions about the pricing and payment process and such from Ella Distribution, they defined everything clearly now under the publisher’s tab. Take a look. I think it will make more sense now than … Continue reading
Summary of Scalzi Posts on No Advance Publishing
John Scalzi did a summary post with links to all his posts last week about no-advance publishing model. They are all worth the read. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/03/11/a-compilation-of-the-weeks-rabble-rousings-on-contracts-and-advances/ And a very smart and kind no-advance publisher out of New Zeland responded to one … Continue reading
Ella Distribution Goes Beta
I am excited this weekend!! For some time I’ve been hinting about a project that Kris and I have been backing that will help indie publishers get their books into indie bookstores and gift shops and so on. It’s finally … Continue reading
