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..
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Tag Archives: pricing
The New World of Publishing: Some Real Perspective on Pricing
After all the comments on the last post about electronic pricing, it became very, very clear to me that indie fiction writers seem to think that pricing an electronic book is done in a vacuum. They just make up some … Continue reading
Joe Konrath’s New Pricing Post
In a new post, Joe very clearly explains the difference between agency pricing and wholesale pricing. Just remember one thing as you read his great post and all the comments: If you sell a product to a bookstore for a … Continue reading
E-Book Prices
Amid all the lawsuit news, some details have been mostly missed. Basically that just the threat of this suit is driving prices upward. On Digital Book World this morning there was an article about how the top 100 Kindle ebook … Continue reading
A Great Post On Indie Book Pricing
J.A. Marlow did a great post on pricing indie books. He did some nice research and even quoted the RWA recent study on ebook pricing very clearly. Worth the read if you are indie publishing and worried about pricing your … Continue reading
New Survey That Includes Pricing
Romance Writers of America did a nice survey about all sorts of buying habits of their members and others. Worth a look. But on the topic of pricing, a ways down is a chart showing what readers think of certain … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Pricing Indie Books…Some 2012 Thoughts
Normally I hate talking about pricing of ebooks by indie publishers because there are no right answers and I always end up making people mad. But that said, things are changing so fast that my last post about pricing (besides … Continue reading
E-Book Pricing Post
Just thought I would point you all to a good guest post on J. A. Konrath’s site and Joe’s comments after the post about pricing. Glad to see Joe and others coming around to pricing indie e-books at a decent … Continue reading
Fun Rant on e-book Pricing
Kristin J. Tsetsi did a fun rant and used some math on the costs of e-books on Kindle. Worth a read just for the different perspective and another way to look at value. http://kristenjtsetsi.com/2011/10/28/the-cost-of-kindle-books-pay-up-or-shut-up/
E-Book Price Post Redone
I did this post originally in November of 2010. And at the end of this post I said that everything was up in the air and I might change my mind in six months on the price structure. Well, nope. … Continue reading
Think Like A Publisher #8… Price, Discounts, and Sales
As some of you said in the comments, I sort of left this on a cliffhanger talking about how to get the other 79 book outlets to make at least 100 book outlets for sales. Please go read Think Like … Continue reading
