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: publishing
June and July Online Workshop Schedule
About the middle of every month I put up a post about the coming workshops in the month or so ahead. We have a number of new workshops that we will announce shortly, as well as more in the lecture … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Books into Stores
A week or so ago I did a blog about the death of the use of the term “print run.” Mostly silence. Both in the comments and in letters. I love it when that happens for a couple of reasons. … Continue reading
Stay Tuned… I’m Having Far Too Much Fun
I have not died since that last post about print runs. Honest. We have a great POD workshop going on here at the coast in the offices of WMG Publishing with great writers. Wonderful fun, so I’m staying up far … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: What Is A Print Run, Grandpa?
I can imagine myself in thirty years sitting in a bar, my cane nearby to fight off any unwanted advances from elderly women while Kris sits there laughing at my delusions. Then suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, a young writer … Continue reading
Learn Covers and Book Interiors
This is a flat pitch. (grin) In six short weeks, the publisher of WMG Publishing, Allyson Longueira and I can teach you how to design professional level books, both covers and interiors. If you are wondering what some of our … Continue reading
Some Fun Calculations
My friend Scott William Carter has done this at times for some of our workshops. I did this years ago a number of times on white boards, not believing the money and totals. Now Jeff Posey has done a very … Continue reading
May Online Workshops Starting Next Week
Next week the May online workshops will be starting up. There is room in all five of them and I don’t see any of them filling to their maximum of twelve, to be honest, since this is May and the … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: The Day After
I just finished close to a 70,000 words on a novel I was hired to do by a New York publisher. Did it in ten days here and blogged about my days and how I did the words. The editor … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: Day 10
The last day. As I said in every post so far, I’m going to have one post per day here for the “ghost” novel writing process that I was hired by a New York publisher to do. I have been … Continue reading
Ghost Novel: Day 9
As I said in every post so far, I’m going to have one post per day here for the “ghost” novel writing process that I was hired by a New York publisher to do. I am now aiming for 10 … Continue reading
