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: January 2012
The New World of Publishing: Pen Names
I get the “pen name” question more than any other question. Period. And that’s because I am very open about writing under different names and I have varied reasons for doing so. And weirdly enough, I have written under pen … Continue reading
A Great Post About Social Networds
Susan Kiernan-Lewis does a great post trashing the idea of using social networks to sell books and it is well-reasoned and well-written. Worth the read, folks. She is wrong about me and Konrath and Eisler and Meyer. She thinks our … Continue reading
Don’t Forget Real Readers
My wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, on her blog today called “The Business Rusch” did a great post I feel is important for all writers to read. It’s about not forgetting readers. Publishers are doing so and writers tend to do … Continue reading
Even More Real Data
Verso did a very good and pretty solid study on e-reading public, buying new devices, and resistance to even buying a reading device. Some fantastic data in this new study. One thing I find interesting is that over the last … Continue reading
Real Data
As I was asking some writers in the comments a few posts ago to back up their claims of fact with real data, Nielsen in Great Britain was doing just such a study. Amazing stuff. What they did was first … Continue reading
A Report From Digital Book World
In case you haven’t been following the reports on Publisher’s Marketplace, Digital Book World conference is going on right now in New York. And Bob Meyer is there and speaking. His two write-ups are worth the read. http://writeitforward.wordpress.com/ And once … Continue reading
A Number Of Things I Am Confused About
Here are a list of things I just get confused about, that I don’t have answers to, and that I thought I would just toss out into the air. — I am confused at why a writer gets happy when … Continue reading
You Don’t Need To Be a Bestseller
Folks, not only is the message to go slow and let your books grow coming from me, but my wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, just did a blog about bestsellers. The Bestseller Lists and Other Thoughts. And this morning Joe Konrath … Continue reading
You Don’t Need Publicity
J.A. Konrath finally said in a very clear fashion what I have been saying over and over and over. Forget publicity on your books, forget being an “author” and work on writing better books and more of them. Don’t believe … Continue reading
But Why Would You…. Not Publish to All Bookstores???
I was stunned by an e-mail I got from a writer who said he seldom bothered to publish his work to Pubit (B&N) and Smashwords and trade paper format. I was so stunned, I have yet to respond. The Amazon … Continue reading
