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: Poker Boy
The Writing of Challenge Story #19: Dried Up: A Poker Boy story
I started this story about two weeks ago, got a page into it and got stuck and stopped. I spent all of 15 minutes with it. I think I got the title from something I heard in a conversation and … 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
The Writing of Challenge Story #11: Shootout in the Okey-Doke Casino
This story has a sort of odd history and a very long writing period. And I am writing this the last evening in February, so this is officially a February story. It is already up on Kindle and other publishing … Continue reading
The Writing of Challenge Story #9: Nonexistent No More
After putting up the 9,000 word plus story, I just took a few days off the challenge. I was still writing on other fiction projects, and actually used the time to get a few of the New World of Publishing … Continue reading
The Writing of Challenge Story #6: Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy
I never intended to write another Poker Boy story. Honest. I sat down at 4:15 in the morning on Saturday, January 22nd (late Friday night) to find a title and start a new challenge story. This time I picked up … Continue reading
Challenge Story #1: How I Wrote “The Smoke That Doesn’t Bark”
Just below this post is the free challenge story #1. It’s also going up on all the sale sites for 99 cents, but that will take a few weeks to get everywhere in the system. My challenge is to write … Continue reading
