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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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Writing with Others
I got some great questions this last week and will try to get to them one at a time. But relating to the last few posts I have made, I want to talk about collaboration. And the question of how … Continue reading
Writing Workshops
I got a great question about workshops, how to use them, what they are good for, that sort of thing. So let me expand here my opinions on workshops. First off, I started (with Steve Fahnestalk) an amateur workshop, bootstrap … Continue reading
Keeping Short Stories in the Mail
Okay, I got a good question about how it can be possible to keep a short story in the mail for as long as I say I have done, and yet not go to lower pay rates. Let me start … Continue reading
Heinlein’s Rules Once Again
Follow Heinlein’s Rules every week. His rules are simple. 1) You must write. 2) You must finish what you write. 3) You must not rewrite unless to editorial demand. 4) You must mail your story to an editor who will … Continue reading
A New Year
Just as with school starting back, publishing sort of “starts” back up this Tuesday. I always look at the day after Labor Day as the first day of the new publishing year. Huh? (I could hear that all over the … Continue reading
