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: electronic publishing
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
Book Cards Work
You walk into any major store and see a huge stand of gift cards. Now imagine that rack full of cards are all cards that represent electronic books. All the buyer of the card has to do is log in … Continue reading
eReaders Up to 12%
And on the same topic of electronic sales, a great survey. Worth looking at on how eReaders and Tablets are growing in households. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/E-readers-and-tablets/Report.aspx
Important Post For Traditionally Published Writers
This morning my wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, put up a post on her site. See it here. It is about the problems, all logical, that traditional publishers are having tracking income from ebooks while strapped, short on help, and using … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: The Future of Novel Submissions
In the last installment of this series, I talked about the future of agents, jumping off from an article done by an agent. And we had some great discussion after that chapter, so go read the comments if you haven’t … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Agents and the Future
Okay, time to talk about agents and their future in this changing world. But first folks, read this!! http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/the-agents-role-in-todays-digital-book-world/ Mary Kole, who I do not know, and who seems fairly smart, works at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. On the Digital … Continue reading
Predictions on 2011 by Mark Coker
Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, has some very interesting predictions for 2011. Read it here and then come back. I have some opinions, as always. I’m going to take his predictions one at a time. #1… Mark believes ebook … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Dare to Be Bad
Kevin J. Anderson just did a good blog on the topic of taking a chance with your work, about “Daring to be Bad” on a first draft and getting it down. Read his blog here, it’s short. Kevin credits me with … Continue reading
Interesting Post
A very interesting post from a writer (Amanda Hocking) who has had some success on publishing electronic. Very balanced and pretty much what I have been trying to say that electronic and traditional are not mutually exclusive and that if … Continue reading
What Do Writers Really Need
Professional writer J. Steven York did a great blog post about what writers really need in this modern new world of publishing. Anyone interested in ever putting up your back list or original stories in epub format might want to … Continue reading
