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: news
First Data Out for 2012
For those of you who like facts instead of myths, here is a little data compiled by the the American Association of Publishers (AAP). The survey every month 1200 publishers (but do not have data from smaller indie publishers). They … Continue reading
The Ghost Novel Writing Is On for Next Week
As I have said a few times over the last six months, I was hired to write a ghost novel for a major author. I will never tell anyone who the author is or even why I am writing this … Continue reading
Doing Taxes
If you wondered what happened to me over the last few days, I’m doing taxes. (grump) Now, normally I would do taxes right before the 15th of April and often while watching the Masters. But alas, this year we started … Continue reading
Great Audio Fun for Me
I now have four of my short stories in electronic, trade paper, and audio editions. And more coming. Most of you know because of my regular posts, I’ve been moving my short fiction into new covers with trade paper editions. … Continue reading
More Data About E-Book Sales
For those of you missing the news, here are some totals reported from the AAP survey for July. (The last posts below were from June and the first half of 2012.) This is quoted from Publisher’s Marketplace. “The AAP reported … Continue reading
A Wild Few Months
After what has been a wild and crazy-busy few months of deadlines and more work than someone my age should be asked to do, it is all finally coming to a slow close. Tomorrow (Saturday), the fun starts with twenty … Continue reading
What’s Happened in August At WMG Publishing
Kris has decided to do a monthly report on the happenings around WMG Publishing and all the people coming and going. It’s fun. It’s short, it’s silly. Sort of the way things are around here.
I’m Back!!
Finally, after far longer than I want to think about, I seem to be back in my pre-August routines, only with some major changes. And it feels great. The biggest change, of course, is that WMG Publishing and the workshops … Continue reading
RIP Anne McCaffrey
Over the past thirty years I had some wonderful times hanging around with Anne at conventions. Didn’t really know her that well besides all the fun parties and a few dinners I got to share with her over the decades. … Continue reading
New Business Today
All kinds of things popping all over the place. —One is about an agent turning into a publisher. The best discussion on this is by The Passive Voice. Read his comments as well. Great discussion about how agency laws governs … Continue reading
