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 Volumes #1and #2 Are Available!
Fiction River, an original fiction anthology magazine is available for subscriptions. Unnatural Worlds, the first volume, shiped on April 23rd, 2013 and How to Save the World shipped on June 18th, 2013.
$6.99 electronic and $15.99 trade paper editions of Fiction River volumes are available at your favorite bookseller.
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
The New World of Publishing: Keeping The Writing Going
The Third of the “Goals and Dreams 2012 Series” Got the goals? Dreaming the dreams? All set for 2012 and a good year of writing? Standing here at the beginning of the year, every writer I know says, “Ready!” And … Continue reading
New World of Publishing: Shifting Goals in This New World
The Second of the “Goals and Dreams 2012 Series” A Dream: An objective in the future that is out of your control. — A Goal: An objective in the future that is totally in your control. — Basic and very … Continue reading
Bob Mayer’s 10 Predictions
Worth the read, folks. http://writeitforward.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/ten-daring-predictions-for-2012-from-the-indie-author-trenches/
New World of Publishing: Failure is an Option. Quitting is Not.
The First of the “Goals and Dreams 2012 Series” I’ll bet a few of you got very uneasy by me starting off a goals and dreams series of blogs with the words: “Failure is an Option.” That’s right, you must … Continue reading
Robin Hobb Shouts a Warning
Folks, Robin Hobb has shouted out a warning about a major scam publisher that many others have been also been shouting out lately in numbers of blogs. Robin explains it well and read the comments following her blog as well. … Continue reading
Short Update
As promised, the end-of-the-year series of goals and dreams blogs will be along fairly regularly over the next week and up to New Year’s Eve. Still having a problem in one eye (mostly still blind), so spending as little time … Continue reading
Aunt Edna and Publishing by John Barnes
Well, John Barnes did a wonderful blog post assigning characters to the different jobs in publishing. Caution, do not drink fluids while reading this, since it is very funny and spot on the money in more ways than I want … Continue reading
Kris’s New Blog on Publishing. A Must Read!!
Folks, if you have not read Kris’s new blog on how and why traditional publishers treat writers the way they do, please do yourself a favor and read it very soon. She made it clear and simple and said it … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: The Big Hurry
Every beginning writer I know (including myself back about thirty plus years) is in a hurry. Fact of publishing, sadly. But before two years ago, beginning writers knew that getting into publishing was going to be a long and hard … Continue reading
Hachette Memo Taken Apart by Barry and Joe
Folks, a few days back one of the major officers in Hatchette let leak an internal memo about how they will stay in the publishing game and remain important. I can tell you, I read the memo and just shook … Continue reading
