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.
Tag Archives: covers
Learn Covers and Book Interiors
This is a flat pitch. (grin) In six short weeks, the publisher of WMG Publishing, Allyson Longueira and I can teach you how to design professional level books, both covers and interiors. If you are wondering what some of our … 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
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
Covers
This post is about covers. And is just for fun. I just started the e-mail list for the “Think Like a Publisher” workshop to join up the writers from around the country who are planning to attend. And at the … Continue reading
The Writing of Challenge Story #32: Just Shoot Me Now!
This one started from the artwork for the cover, of course. I was browsing through Dreamstime the other night and ran across this piece of art and knew instantly it had to be a Poker Boy story. And I had … Continue reading
Think Like A Publisher #6… Covers and Publisher Looks
Okay, I have escaped unhurt from doing the “Basics of Production” chapter and I had a lot of requests to talk about covers, mostly the production of them. And covers and how to do them is where things get really … Continue reading
