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!
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Workshops
I believe writers’ workshops, when used correctly, are a good tool for a writer to use. When used for the wrong reason, they are destructive beyond all measure. And there are so many myths built up around writers’ workshops that … Continue reading
Updates and a family trip
If anyone has had any problems with the site this last week or so, it’s because it was being moved. It has now settled into its new home and most of the bugs should be gone. We should be happy … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing. Agents
The myth is simply: YOU MUST HAVE AN AGENT TO SELL A BOOK To be clear, I like agents and have no desire to bring them harm. But the myths these days about agents are so thick and have become … Continue reading
Redrafting a manuscript
Privately and some in the public posts after my last Killing Sacred Cows of Publishing chapter, I got comments about redrafting a manuscript, so thought it might be worth a story here. When I was starting out, I mailed anything … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Rewriting
You MUST rewrite to make something good. That’s one of the great myths of publishing and is this chapter’s topic. So hang on, this could get interesting. First off, I want to repeat clearly what I said in the previous … Continue reading
Streak Updates and other stuff
Time for streak updates. I’ve gotten a number reported in already and will get the updates posted on the page in the next day or so. Easier to just do a bunch of them at once on these static pages. … Continue reading
