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..
Or subscribe to future issues now.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
New Way For Uninformed Writers to Spend Money
Sadly, as I said in my wrap-up post of what I saw coming, people taking advantage of writers was going to increase. I just didn’t expect Simon and Schuster to jump into the game. Wow, what a stunner. All the … Continue reading
October Challenge Books
I hope everyone in the States had a great holiday. A person would think that after thirty-five years in this publishing business (which works at a glacial pace), I would have calculated the time involved a little better with getting … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Some Perspective On 2012
Interestingly enough, 2012 was the first seemingly stable year in the new normal we are all living in the publishing industry. Does that mean that nothing changed? Of course not. Some things changed, but not like 2009-2011. And some things … Continue reading
What I Learned Teaching the First Four Online Workshops
The first four online workshops are now done, for the most part. The writers who took the classes are going back over the entire six weeks of videos to review. (Or at least I hope they are.) And that’s a … Continue reading
More Cover Fun
As I have said before, WMG Publishing is going through all the backlist I put up early and redoing everything, from covers to blurbs to uploads. And proofing the stories as well. I have been doing many of my own, … Continue reading
Estate Stuff from Kris and Update from Me
For those of you who were around here from last August through last spring and know the estate issues Kris and I dealt with, Kris is now finally starting to do her estate series. This is a general one this … Continue reading
No Reader Left Behind. A Great Post from Kris
This week’s article by Kris is a great one. And it should scare hell out of any new writer coming into the business. And answer questions for many fans of different author’s work. And read the comments and see that … Continue reading
More Data About E-Book Sales
For those of you missing the news, here are some totals reported from the AAP survey for July. (The last posts below were from June and the first half of 2012.) This is quoted from Publisher’s Marketplace. “The AAP reported … Continue reading
New Holiday Cover Fun
Guest blog from Allyson Longueira, the publisher of WMG Publishing Inc. about some of the Holiday stories now out. If this doesn’t show well, it also is at WMG Publishing web site. Just click on any cover to get a … Continue reading
