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 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.
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
The New World of Publishing: An Idea to Take Shots At
Over the last couple weeks in the workshops here, a number of professional writers and I have been trying (during side discussions) to come up with reasons why an idea won’t work. Novelist Scott William Carter (who was my co-instructor … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: My Biggest Fears
I have numbers of worries and fears about this new world of publishing where writers sometimes create their own publishing company or even publish a story or novel under their own name. And not one of my fears deals with … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: The Rolling Stone is Gaining Speed.
The rolling stone of small and self-publishing is gaining speed as every day goes by. Starting on last Thursday evening and running for three days, novelist Scott William Carter and I led a discussion with a little over thirty well-published … Continue reading
Workshop, New Story, and Kris Jumps Into Agent Discussion
New Free Poker Boy story up below this post. On her web site, in her weekly series of business articles, Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about planning for death, not your own death, but of those you trust and work with. … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: You Can Trust Your Agent
Okay, I’m going to grab hold of the third rail of fiction publishing with this one and see how long I can hold on. Myth: You can trust your fiction agent. Major myth, actually. And one I have tried to … Continue reading
Fantastic Comments by Laura Resnick
Writers, if you are not reading the comments from Laura Resnick under the last post of mine called “More Agent Stuff” you are missing a free lesson in the business of publishing fiction. You ever want a clear statement about … Continue reading
