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: January 2010
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Agents Can Help with Careers
Kris and I in workshop after workshop, in conference after conference, give the same advice over and over. WRITE WHAT YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT, THEN TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SELL IT. The myth: Agents can give good career … Continue reading
Workshops Getting Closer
If you click on the tab that says workshops, there is a schedule there for the professional level workshops we are doing this year. By professional level, I mean someone who is a ways into writing already, either sold a … Continue reading
New Cover for Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing
Pati Nagle sent me this great public domain picture of a cow that she said would be great to use for a cover for the book Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing, and she nicely offered to do up a … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: All Agents Care About Writers First
I never intended to do so many of the agent myths in a row, but since we’re having such a great conversation, and Laura Resnick brought this one up in the comments on the last one, it makes sense to … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Agent Agreements
Okay, without a doubt, the silliest thing that has ever come along is agents having writers sign an agreement. To understand how silly, just put this in real world terms instead of writing terms. Think about walking into a job … Continue reading
Comments on Agents
Wow, thanks everyone, especially Laura Resnick, for the fantastic discussion about agents going on after the last Sacred Cows Post on agents marketing your work. If you haven’t read it, it’s just two posts below this one, and now has … Continue reading
Two Great Writing Posts
As the discussion after the last Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing goes on in the comments section (thanks everyone, for the great comments), I want to point out two great blog posts by professional writers that are very much … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Agents Know Markets
Back to agent myths for a moment. There are a lot of them. I did a general Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing post about how you need an agent to sell a book. If you haven’t read it, go … Continue reading
Nifty Pulp Site
Many of you know that I am a major fan of old pulp magazines of all types. While writing Star Trek, I got to write Captain Proton a number of times, including a cover story for Amazing Magazine. Great fun. … Continue reading
Talking About a Book: Headed West
Last month I started a series of posts called Talking About Books. Over the years I’ve written some really fun novels, and some strange novels, and some just downright weird novels. Some of the books bored me, some were a … Continue reading
