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!
Fiction River, an original fiction anthology magazine is available for subscriptions. Unnatural Worlds, the first volume, shiped on April 23rd, 2013 and How to Save the World shipped on June 18th, 2013.
$6.99 electronic and $15.99 trade paper editions of Fiction River volumes are available at your favorite bookseller.
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Tag Archives: indie-publishing
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
Crossover Deals from Self-Publishing to Traditional
As I have been saying for some time, the indie side of publishing will slowly become a major way into traditional publishing. And a way with power that allows a writer to negotiate a better contract. But up until this … 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
The New World of Publishing: What Should Indie Publishers Be Called?
We have indie publishers, self publishers, specialty-press publishers, small-press publishers, and so on and so on. Are there any differences and does anyone care? Well, it seems some people care. Those people with far too much time on their hands, … Continue reading
The New World: Publishing: Killing Your Sales One Shot at a Time: The Second Foot
In the last post I quickly detailed out how I saw indie writer after indie writer shoot themselves in the foot with their publishing when it came to sales of their books. (Read it first if you have not. It … Continue reading
The New World: Publishing: Killing Your Sales One Shot at a Time
Over the last month or so, (I suppose because I was preparing for the “Think Like a Publisher workshop) I started noticing how indie writers shoot themselves in the foot as far as sales. And not just once, but often … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Fear
For some time I have been considering going after the topic of fear in publishing. I know I talk about it all the time at workshops and in comments. And I have touched on the topic in a few blog … Continue reading
The Secret Myth of Traditional Publishing
I keep laughing when writer after writer goes on about how much better traditional publishing is than indie publishing. Now, granted, I am still a traditionally published writer with a couple books under contract, but the myths involved with traditional … 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
The New World of Publishing: Prices on Covers of Indie Books
A while back Joe Konrath (in one of his very interesting blogs) suggested that maybe indie publishers should not put prices on their POD books. And he seemed to have a logical argument for his position as Joe often does. … Continue reading
