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: June 2011
Four Novels A Year: The Math of It. Again.
Interestingly enough, lots of great discussion and feedback on the math post. But the item I got the most grief about privately and on a couple Twitter comments was me using Four Novels a Year pace. (How dare I suggest … Continue reading
eReaders Up to 12%
And on the same topic of electronic sales, a great survey. Worth looking at on how eReaders and Tablets are growing in households. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/E-readers-and-tablets/Report.aspx
Oh, The Math Of It All
Okay, time to do some math again on this 99 cent thing. Start from the premise that I am a professional writer. Start from the premise that I want to make $100,000.00 per year with my fiction writing. Start from … Continue reading
The Silliness Of It All
Okay, over the last two years I’ve taken a ton of flack from writers by suggesting they don’t need to spend a year writing a book, that all they have to do is spend more time actually typing and a … Continue reading
Some Real Numbers
Wow, it’s interesting to get some real numbers out of indie publishers. Robin Sullivan does a nice job with this post and the comments afterward are interesting as well as others chip in to put their sales up. Very much … Continue reading
John Locke Better Off?
Mike Shatzkin does a great job making a solid case for the fact that John Locke, a million-selling indie publisher selling his books for 99 cents would have made more money selling his books traditionally. Interesting thoughts by Mike. And … Continue reading
Martin H. Greenberg
Far, far too young, Marty Greenberg left us this morning after a long illness. Even though not unexpected, still a very sad day for a lot of people, me included. For those of you not familiar with the thousands and … Continue reading
Interesting Summary of Week’s Events
A ton of stuff happened this week in publishing. Best summary was at Digital Bookworld. News on B&N, Borders, Amazon tablet, the spam mess at Amazon, and so on. http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/dbw-weekly-roundup-62311/
Some Great Predictions
This last week, since I have been just playing with short stories, I didn’t report here a few major changes in publishing. The most important of which is J.K. Rowling’s announcement that she will only sell her e-books from her … Continue reading
Agents Do Not Work For Writers
Folks, if you have not been reading the series former attorney Passive Guy is doing on book agents and book contracts, you are missing a very expensive education that you could be getting for free. His most recent article about … Continue reading
