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.
Or subscribe to future issues now.
Category Archives: News
New Workshops and New Schedule for the Fall
Since I am about to launch into quickly redoing a bunch of the Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing posts and putting them up here before getting them into a book, I figured I had better talk about the workshops … Continue reading
First Data Out for 2012
For those of you who like facts instead of myths, here is a little data compiled by the the American Association of Publishers (AAP). The survey every month 1200 publishers (but do not have data from smaller indie publishers). They … Continue reading
The Ghost Novel Writing Is On for Next Week
As I have said a few times over the last six months, I was hired to write a ghost novel for a major author. I will never tell anyone who the author is or even why I am writing this … Continue reading
Audio Outtakes from Fiction River Volume One
At the moment, at WMG Publishing, they are working to get the audio version of Fiction River Volume #1, Unnatural Worlds, recorded. I am supposed to go in and record my story for the volume Wednesday evening, which ought to … Continue reading
Doing Taxes
If you wondered what happened to me over the last few days, I’m doing taxes. (grump) Now, normally I would do taxes right before the 15th of April and often while watching the Masters. But alas, this year we started … 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
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
Great Audio Fun for Me
I now have four of my short stories in electronic, trade paper, and audio editions. And more coming. Most of you know because of my regular posts, I’ve been moving my short fiction into new covers with trade paper editions. … Continue reading
Some Odd Stuff
Before I put up the next post on Think Like a Publisher (that will cause some discussion), I thought I would first put up a few things I wanted to point out to the fine folks who stop by here. The … Continue reading
A Side Note About Agents
I have said for some time now that using agents is like setting up a roadblock between yourself and the people who actually buy your book in traditional publishing. And if you are silly enough to still have ALL your … Continue reading
