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: money
A Great Post By John Scalzi About Money
For anyone here who is a writer, knows a writer, or is thinking about becoming a writer, please read John’s post this morning about money. I agree completely, and I don’t always agree with John on some aspects of this … Continue reading
Indie Publishing Thinking
The last week of February, writer Scott William Carter and I taught a workshop to about twenty-five driven indie writers. The thrust of the workshop was how indie writers can make more money. During the four days, Scott and I … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: The Big Hurry
Every beginning writer I know (including myself back about thirty plus years) is in a hurry. Fact of publishing, sadly. But before two years ago, beginning writers knew that getting into publishing was going to be a long and hard … Continue reading
Some New Numbers and Perspective
As announced today on Publisher’s Lunch, a new industry-wide set of statistics are now out by BookStats. It’s a study that is going to be done jointly by the AAP and BISG who had been releasing their own flawed statistics … Continue reading
Tracking Sales: Some Perspective
The thing about electronic publishing that drives me crazy is the silliness of believing that Kindle is the only source of sales. My attitude as an indie publisher is that I want to get to 100% of the available English … Continue reading
Some Real Numbers
Wow, it’s interesting to get some real numbers out of indie publishers. Robin Sullivan does a nice job with this post and the comments afterward are interesting as well as others chip in to put their sales up. Very much … Continue reading
Think Like A Publisher: 2…Expected Costs
The first chapter in this new series was “The Early Decisions” which included picking a business name, setting up checking accounts, and so on. There were no real costs at all in those early steps unless your state had a … Continue reading
Think Like A Publisher: The Early Decisions
Okay, I’m starting a brand new series right now. I have no idea how long this series will be, and I will continue to do “New World of Publishing” chapters and “Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing” chapters as topics … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Accounting
Warning: This will be a general post designed to help regular folk understand some real basics in indie publishing accounting, so publishing experts and accountants, please give me a break. This is very, very general. Thanks! Also, this is a … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Cash Flow
Okay, time to talk about that evil subject: Money. And more pointedly, money for fiction writers. So many fiction writers these days banter around the saying that they can make more money indie publishing their work than selling it into … Continue reading
