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: February 2012
The New World of Publishing: Pricing Indie Books…Some 2012 Thoughts
Normally I hate talking about pricing of ebooks by indie publishers because there are no right answers and I always end up making people mad. But that said, things are changing so fast that my last post about pricing (besides … Continue reading
Competition Restraint In Contracts
Those of you who are writing, or ever dreamed of writing, go read my wife’s blog today about one of the very, very nasty problems of contracts these days. Even if you have no intention of every going with a … Continue reading
Updates and Workshops
This coming Saturday starts the first of two workshops covering the last few days of February and the first four days of March. I’ve been spending all my time the last two months, and I do mean almost all my … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Reasons for a Trade Paper Edition
The writer, Steve Perry, asked me a couple of good questions in the comments on the last article. I wanted to try to answer them up front here because I thought the questions, or the basic question, important. The basic … Continue reading
Some Interesting Hard Numbers
Michael W. Lucas just posted his hard sales numbers from January and talked about them in a quick manner. It’s for a book that was too short for his regular traditional publisher. The post is short and very clear. Worth … Continue reading
Zoe Winters on Pricing
Zoe Winters broke her silence on talking about publishing and did a great post about pricing. Very clear and reasoned. Worth the read, folks. http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/ebook-pricing-or-where-zoe-says-something-about-publishing/
The New World of Publishing: What Indie Production Actually Costs
Every few days I get someone making a comment on a topic and mentioning they can’t do such-and-such because it just costs too much. And I get at least one letter a week asking me how I can do so … Continue reading
Again I Ask…
Such a simple question: Why would anyone limit their sales to only one bookstore? Just recently, Amanda Hocking said, ”According to my 1099s, nearly 40% of the money I made in royalties came from Barnes & Noble…. To clarify: All my … Continue reading
New Story Out Traditional
Last spring sometime I got this wonderful invite from editor Kerrie Hughes to be in an anthology called “Westward Weird.” Right up my sweet spot for writing, since I am from the west and write science fiction and have even … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Following
There is one really bothersome problem I have noticed a great deal in this new world of publishing we all live in. Writers and some publishers blindly follow someone without ever thinking. They hear a piece of advice, whether it … Continue reading
