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!
Fiction River, an original fiction anthology magazine is available for subscriptions. Unnatural Worlds, the first volume, shiped on April 23rd, 2013 and How to Save the World shipped on June 18th, 2013.
$6.99 electronic and $15.99 trade paper editions of Fiction River volumes are available at your favorite bookseller.
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Tag Archives: traditional publishing
The Secret Myth of Traditional Publishing
I keep laughing when writer after writer goes on about how much better traditional publishing is than indie publishing. Now, granted, I am still a traditionally published writer with a couple books under contract, but the myths involved with traditional … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: No Balance
It should be clear to anyone following traditional publishing now that no traditional publisher will fail in 2012 when ebook sales hit the magic 25%. In fact, because of a number of factors, even with paper book sales declining, most … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Traditional or Indie? What To Do Now?
Over and over I get the question, “Should I mail books to traditional publishers or not these days?” And honestly, over the last year my answer has varied and shifted. But now I have finally settled on an answer I … Continue reading
Mining the Authors
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/05/2011/strip-mining-the-authors/ This blog by Passive Guy, a former attorney, may be one of the most important posts you will ever read as a writer or near-professional writer. This post, combined with Kris’s most recent post on surviving the transition shows … Continue reading
Amanda Hocking’s Reasons
Read her blog post here about why she took the deal with traditional publishing that she did. http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog.html My opinion, from an outside business perspective and a long-term freelance writer, let me say Fantastic!! Her reasons are spot-on good business, … Continue reading
Amanda Hocking
Well, looks like Amanda wants people in traditional publishing to take care of her. From a long-term professional, all I can say is that she is going to be very upset with the results and in for a very rude … Continue reading
Another Comment on the Eisler Decision
Do I favor writers only going indie publishing? No. Do I favor writers only going traditional publishing? No. I use both sides, both traditional and indie, to be honest. And so does my wife, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. We are fast … Continue reading
The New World of Publishing: Time
Boy, discussion about “time” seems to be coming up a lot lately, especially in the context of writing and indie publishing. So let me take a hard look at the two routes only through the lens of “time.” So why … Continue reading
New World of Publishing: Speed
Truth: The slow writers in this new world of publishing are going to have trouble. Far more trouble than they had with traditional publishing only. We are in a new golden age of fiction. The first golden age was the … Continue reading
Great Article About Editing
For those of you still thinking that traditional editorial offices are the great evil empire, you really need to read this from editor Tom Dupree, one of the best editors I know of. This article is about his first editing … Continue reading
