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: May 2011
Contract Critical!!
For those of you with agents, for those of you with IP lawyers for contracts, for those of you even hoping to sell a book into traditional publishing, the Passive Guy, a former attorney, on his blog, The Passive Voice, … Continue reading
New Poker Boy Collections
As I get done with deadlines and head back to a big push on the short story challenge, I’ve been doing a few short story collections. You can see the titles of the collections and covers down the right side … Continue reading
Dave Farland and Passive Guy
Passive Guy put up some great thoughts from Dave Farland about indie publishing and the future of publishing in general. Fantastic stuff, folks. Worth the read from two of the smarter people working in this business. http://www.thepassivevoice.com/05/2011/publishers-and-agents-are-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-skin-their-own-authors
Mining the Authors
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/05/2011/strip-mining-the-authors/ This blog by Passive Guy, a former attorney, may be one of the most important posts you will ever read as a writer or near-professional writer. This post, combined with Kris’s most recent post on surviving the transition shows … Continue reading
Ever Thinking of Signing a Contract?? Read This!!
If you have ever signed a contract and your publisher is coming back to you with an added clause to sign, or if you are thinking of signing a contract with a book publisher, this blog by J. Daniel Sawyer … Continue reading
I Thought My Early Covers Sucked
Wow, agents who are doing books are starting to have the books appear and guess what? They don’t have a clue what they are doing any more than the rest of us did when we started. And that’s worth 50%??? … Continue reading
Michael A. Stackpole Hits It Again
In a great post about the future of publishing, Michael A. Stackpole once again just flat calls things as they are. Worth the read, folks. Great post, Mike! http://www.michaelastackpole.com/?p=2547
Think Like A Publisher #11… Electronic Sales to Bookstores
Just over a year ago now, Kris was standing at the end of an aisle in a Safeway grocery store as I came around the corner from the deli section. She was staring at one of those huge end-caps of … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Killing a Career
This myth just gets more and more annoying by the day. And finally, with all the new stuff about indie publishing, I figured it was time to take a hammer to the myth. If you catch some hints of annoyance … Continue reading
You Think I’m Harsh
I get a lot of feedback around the web and from writers that I am harsh. I don’t see myself as being harsh, just honest. Telling it the way I’m seeing it from thirty-plus-years of writing, editing, and sitting in … Continue reading
