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 2012
The New World of Publishing: Some Real Perspective on Pricing
After all the comments on the last post about electronic pricing, it became very, very clear to me that indie fiction writers seem to think that pricing an electronic book is done in a vacuum. They just make up some … Continue reading
Kris’s New Post
This morning Kris talks about writers, writing, listening to critics, workshops, and trying to write a perfect story. Mostly trying to write a perfect story. As I have said a bunch of times here, there is no such thing as … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Book Pricing from Another Perspective
Teri Babcock posted the following comment on the last article I wrote in this series and I asked her for permission to move it to the front page. Thanks, Teri, for permission to use it here. Teri’s comment is spot … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Insulting Your Writer Friends
This week my wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, talked in her blog about a topic that has been bothering me for some time. And a problem I saw coming years ago. And one that makes me sad that the problem has … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Making a Living with Your Short Fiction
Way back, over two years ago now, I did a post in my Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing series called “Myth: You Can’t Make Money Writing Fiction.” You can find that article either in any electronic bookstore or for … Continue reading
The Secret Myth of Traditional Publishing
I keep laughing when writer after writer goes on about how much better traditional publishing is than indie publishing. Now, granted, I am still a traditionally published writer with a couple books under contract, but the myths involved with traditional … Continue reading
More Cover Fun
Nothing seems to remain the same in this new world and this last week I learned a few more things about covers. So before launching the Kris Nelscott Smokey Dalton series, I wanted to try to work on what I … Continue reading
Forbes Talks With Mark Coker
Kris mentions this in her wonderful article this morning, but I wanted to give you a link because of the chart in this article on the second page. It’s a stunner and a great article and interview with Mark. Balanced … Continue reading
Kris’s New Post
Kris just wrote a new post she called “The End of the World as We Know It.” Oh my, oh my, oh my…. She said wonderfully what I’ve been wanting to say for so long, and was disgusted about with … Continue reading
Paper Book Numbers Grow
As I have been saying over and over here, paper books and bookstores are not going away. Period. And indie publishers need to get their books into print as well as electronic. And get those paper books into stores. So … Continue reading
