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: sales
Some Interesting Hard Numbers
Michael W. Lucas just posted his hard sales numbers from January and talked about them in a quick manner. It’s for a book that was too short for his regular traditional publisher. The post is short and very clear. Worth … Continue reading
Real Data
As I was asking some writers in the comments a few posts ago to back up their claims of fact with real data, Nielsen in Great Britain was doing just such a study. Amazing stuff. What they did was first … 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
Think Like A Publisher #9.5… The Secret of Indie Publishing
Taking a break from the sales part of things, I want to back up for a fairly short chapter on how publishers think about income. Call this Chapter 9.5. Why Having More Product Is Better Than Having Less Product. I … Continue reading
Think Like a Publisher #7… A Sales Plan
At times I tend to forget that I sat in the publisher’s chair for seven years, growing a publishing house from nothing to the 5th largest producer of science fiction and fantasy and horror in the nation. And now, sixteen … Continue reading
Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Writers Compete With Each Other.
This myth in the old days (meaning more than three years ago) used to get knocked out of young writers early on in their careers, so it had little or no impact on writing careers as young writers came into … Continue reading
