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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Tag Archives: Agents
A Side Note About Agents
I have said for some time now that using agents is like setting up a roadblock between yourself and the people who actually buy your book in traditional publishing. And if you are silly enough to still have ALL your … 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
Advances Are Loans
As Kris and I have been trying to teach writers for two decades now, advances on a book deal from a traditional publisher are LOANS. Loans from the publisher. And for two decades writers have been telling us we are … Continue reading
Another Agent Post
When I was down in Las Vegas last week being a guest speaker at the SuperStars writing Seminar, they put me on a panel about agents. They expected me to bash agents, as it seems is my reputation. I didn’t. … Continue reading
Answering Some Agent Questions
The Peter Lampack Agency sued Martha Grimes after she left his agency (read fired him) claiming that he was due money from sales by another agent years down the road. (A nightmare for any author to even think about.) Today … Continue reading
Agent Fun and Stupidity
An agent the other day did a tweet that has to be right up there with the stupidest thing I have ever heard come out of an agent’s mouth, and I’ve heard some pretty damn stupid stuff over the years. … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Why Bad Agent Information Gets Taught
For decades, the business of publishing fiction didn’t seem to change much. In fact, for a major industry, it stayed stuck solidly in practices decade after decade, with only slow and often minor-seeming shifts. But now something changes daily in … Continue reading
Compendium of Conflict of Interest Posts
Passive Guy, an attorney, on his fantastic blog ThePassiveVoice did me a favor and put in one place all the links to the different posts about the conflict of interest with agents being publishers. Both pro and con. If you … Continue reading
But Why Would You… Ever Need an Agent in this New World?
Sixth installment in this new series. This series will be made up of short, sometimes long questions and puzzlements about publishing. For the longest time, about twenty-two years, actually, I had a series of wonderful agents. In the old world … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: One Last Agent Note
This will be my last post on agents for a time, maybe ever. I’m going to sit back and watch this agent stuff work itself out. Don’t worry, I will be doing lots of other posts about indie publishing, about … Continue reading
