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 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: April 2012
E-Book Prices
Amid all the lawsuit news, some details have been mostly missed. Basically that just the threat of this suit is driving prices upward. On Digital Book World this morning there was an article about how the top 100 Kindle ebook … Continue reading
A Great Post On Indie Book Pricing
J.A. Marlow did a great post on pricing indie books. He did some nice research and even quoted the RWA recent study on ebook pricing very clearly. Worth the read if you are indie publishing and worried about pricing your … Continue reading
When to Mail Short Fiction To Traditional Publishers
Over this last year as indie publishing has ramped up, I have gotten the same question a great deal. The question is simply: When should you send a short story to a magazine or book collection and when should you … Continue reading
More Writers Making a Living
Interesting post by Lindsay Buroker about making a living with her indie publishing and how others are doing the same. And she has some interesting points about the common factors among those she knows about making a living. Worth the … Continue reading
New Data Out on E-Books
The Pew Survey on readers and electronic device reading is out and has some really great information in it. Instead of me going over it here, go read The Shatzkin Files and his view of the data as well as … Continue reading
Lawrence Block Opens a Window to the Past
Folks, if you have not yet read Lawrence Block’s article he wrote in 1981 and just reprinted, run now. Read. It’s about getting by on a writer’s income. Much of the advice is spot on for today’s writers, other parts … Continue reading
Indie Publishing Thinking
The last week of February, writer Scott William Carter and I taught a workshop to about twenty-five driven indie writers. The thrust of the workshop was how indie writers can make more money. During the four days, Scott and I … Continue reading
I’m Back!!
Finally, after far longer than I want to think about, I seem to be back in my pre-August routines, only with some major changes. And it feels great. The biggest change, of course, is that WMG Publishing and the workshops … Continue reading
