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 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: On Writing
The New World of Publishing: Stop Submitting Manuscripts to Traditional Publishers
(Warning!!! I am talking about novels only here, NOT short fiction… The short fiction markets play under other rules and are fine. The top magazines and anthologies don’t buy all rights or hold your rights forever. For example, at Fiction River, … Continue reading
Amazing New Post on the Stages of an Indie Writer
In her Business Rusch series, Kris just put up a post called “The Stages of an Indie Writer.” I went through all of these stages in one way or another to get to this point, every darned one of them … Continue reading
Writing That You Can See Postponed
I was going to start the five story writing on Monday and blogging out in the open about the stories and then posting them so you could all read what I was writing. But alas, as I warned, that bit … Continue reading
More New Books Headed Out
Kris and I are just back from a short trip to Ashland, Oregon, to watch a few plays. Wonderful time, but I figured now that I am back, before I post another large article, I had better clear up some … Continue reading
Success, Failure, and Caring: A Personal Note
Over the past two weeks, there have been a lot of different blog posts and articles about how some people are wired to take chances and others aren’t. And how we should study failures as much as successes to really … Continue reading
Another Traditional Publishing Saga
This wonderful three-part post by Judith Tarr just came to my attention. She’s been around as long as I have and is very sharp when it comes to surviving in publishing. In her essay “Escape from Stockholm: An Epic Publishing … Continue reading
Traditional Publishing And Their March to the Future
Okay, I have tried to not beat on how slow traditional publishers are moving forward in this new world, and how some seem to be going backwards in the face of all these changes. But this, today, from Kevin J. … Continue reading
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
“Ghost Novel” Writing So You Can See
Numbers of people were wondering exactly what I was writing when I did the ten days of blogging about writing a 70,000 word novel. They were bummed they couldn’t see the final result or I couldn’t even give hints as … 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
