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: Challenge
Ghost Novel: Day 6
As I said in every post so far, I’m going to have one post per day here for the “ghost” novel writing process that I was hired by a New York publisher to do. I am now aiming for 9 … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: Day 5
As I said in every post so far, I’m going to have one post per day here for the “ghost” novel writing process that I was hired by a New York publisher to do. I am now aiming for 8 … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: Day 4
As I said in the previous posts, I’m going to have one post per day here for the “ghost” novel writing process that I was hired by a New York publisher to do. I am aiming for 7 to 10 … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: Day 3
As I said in the previous posts, I’m going to have one post per day here for the “ghost” novel writing process that I was hired by a New York publisher to do. I am aiming for 7 to 10 … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: Day 2
As I said in the previous post, I’m going to have one post per day here for the “ghost” novel writing process that I was hired by a New York publisher to do. I am aiming for 7 to 10 … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: Day 1
As I said in the previous post, I’m going to have one post per day here for the ghost novel writing process. (And no, this is not a novel about ghosts, this is me ghosting a novel because I was … Continue reading
November Challenge Books
Yeah, I know it’s January, but in a week or so I’ll have the December challenge books out, and then about two weeks after that I’ll have the January challenge books out. So those of you subscribing, expect a flood. … Continue reading
October Challenge Books
I hope everyone in the States had a great holiday. A person would think that after thirty-five years in this publishing business (which works at a glacial pace), I would have calculated the time involved a little better with getting … Continue reading
September Challenge Books
Finally got them in from CreateSpace. (I was late ordering them because just forgot to hit purchase when I had them in the shopping cart. I claim the POD workshop caused my stupidity.) Again in September there were eight of … Continue reading
The Writing of Challenge Two Story #1: “For the Balance of a Heart.”
Challenge #2, story #1. (CT#1) For the Balance of a Heart A Poker Boy Story Finally getting some of the new challenge stories through the process and up here. It’s been a very strange first month plus for the challenge. … Continue reading
