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..
Or subscribe to future issues now.
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: There is Only One Way
“This is how you do it.” How often do writers in this business hear that silly phrase? Some writer or editor or agent telling the young writer to do something as if that something was set in stone. Nope. The … Continue reading
Very Important Chore
Writers, if you do not have a will, go to this post on Neil Gaiman’s web site, read the blog, and then download and fill out the sample will done by an attorney for writers. I can’t stress this enough. … Continue reading
Tom Dupree and interesting comments
Tom Dupree, a very smart businessman and editor in New York has made a few very well reasoned and thought-through posts about this new world of electronic publishing we are all diving into at breakneck speed. He’s done it again. … Continue reading
Janis Ian’s Song for SF Fans
Folks, if you are a science fiction fan, read science fiction as escape when you were a kid, grew up loving the genre more than anything, you will want to listen to and read the words for this wonderful song … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Agents and Contracts
These last two weeks I have been watching a friend struggle with all the agent myths AFTER getting an offer from a major New York publisher for a multi-book deal that he marketed and sold himself. And watching this, I … Continue reading
Freelancer’s Guide on Giving Up
Kris just posted a Freelancer’s Guide on the topic of giving up on yourself and your dream. And it is spot on in my opinion about my fear of the growing myth of new writers being able to make it … Continue reading
Great Blog Link and Update
Michael Stackpole is out on the front edge of the new sides of this business and has been for a few years, talking logic and basic common sense. And he’s not only trying to wake up writers to the coming … Continue reading
