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: December 2008
Last Minute Goal Help
I’m surprised at how many people have already signed up to try a streak, and there are a few retired streaks and one active streak going on with professional writers that are stunning that will be listed. It’s going to … Continue reading
Streaks and Goals
Almost done with this series of posts since we have only a few days until 2009. I’ll be writing other blog topics in the coming months, both here and as a guest blogger on Novelist Inc.’s website. Even though I … Continue reading
Craft Goals
I received a bunch of e-mail this week reminding me I promised to talk about craft in combination with goals. I was kind of hoping you would all forget, since this is a tough topic. Ahh, well. Here goes. But … Continue reading
Fear and Your Goal
One week before the new year fires up a fresh start. Actually, if you have read all the previous posts about goals, you should be thinking that the beginning of every week fires up a fresh start. Keep everything always … Continue reading
Goal Motivation
Please go read the other posts on goals before reading this one if you want me to make a lick of sense at all. Even then it’s questionable. I got no new questions on anything this week, that I remember, … Continue reading
More than one Goal
As normal with all these posts this month, make sure you have read them before digging into this one, otherwise I’m going to sound more like an idiot than I already do, since I refer back to those previous posts … Continue reading
Avoiding Goal Failure
Please read or reread the previous posts on goals before jumping into this one. They are all building, I hope. The last post got into a lot of detail with examples, with luck trying to show you how to set … Continue reading
Doing the Numbers to Find a Goal
Please read the previous posts on goals before trying to wade through this one. I’m going to be doing math and writers, for the most part, hate math. And they hate reality as well, but that’s a topic for a … Continue reading
Goals, Attitude, and Numbers
Okay, if you haven’t already done so, go read the previous three posts on goals. Or maybe reread them again, since these posts are building. If you have followed the previous posts, you know how much time you can carve … Continue reading
A Personal Example of How to Set Goals
(Before you read this, read the previous two posts on goals.) About a month ago I got a phone call from a wonderful women who works at our small city water department. She had been informed by the water meter … Continue reading
