Dean’s Short Bio
Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published traditionally more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred 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 co-wrote The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and ghosts for a number of top bestselling writers.
Dean wrote books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and wrote scripts for Hollywood. One movie actually saw film.
Dean also worked as an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He now plays a role as 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 Volumes #1and #2 Are Available!
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Tag Archives: Fiction
Still More New Books Heading Out
As I said a week or so back, I’m going to be madly scrambling to catch up with the challenge from last July. Before I announce a weird and strange and head-shaking new challenge for the next year or so. … Continue reading
A Fun Fiction River Experiment
Jane, in the WMG Publishing audio department showed this to me the other day and I thought it great fun. She said it was an experiment and she had put it together in a few minutes. WMG Publishing will be … Continue reading
A Passive Guy Opinion
The other day, in response to a really, really silly article from someplace in traditional publishing, the Passive Guy from the great web site The Passive Voice decided to voice an opinion on traditional and indie publishing. As a person … Continue reading
September Challenge Books
Finally got them in from CreateSpace. (I was late ordering them because just forgot to hit purchase when I had them in the shopping cart. I claim the POD workshop caused my stupidity.) Again in September there were eight of … Continue reading
Fiction River: Kris and I Are Returning To Editing
That’s right. Hugo Award winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I are coming back to editing with a project called Fiction River. Fiction River will be a bimonthly anthology series starting in April next year. Each anthology will be theme-focused … 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
The Writing of Challenge Story #31: Miss Smallwood’s Goodies
I mentioned last story that I had a cool title that after I wrote the story just didn’t fit. So I changed the title of that one to “The War of Poker” that fit that story perfectly. This is the … Continue reading
The Writing of Challenge Story #16: Not Salable For Sale
I finished my update last night on the challenge, took a slight break, and then came back to my office. Time 1 A.M., June 1st. I figured no better time then the moment to get started on the next challenge … Continue reading
The Challenge Update
Some of you saw the title and said, “What Challenge?” And you would be right for the last two months. It has been a wild two months for many reasons, but now the decks have cleared again, deadlines are done, … Continue reading
New Poker Boy Collections
As I get done with deadlines and head back to a big push on the short story challenge, I’ve been doing a few short story collections. You can see the titles of the collections and covers down the right side … Continue reading
