Dean Wesley Smith

Dean Wesley Smith (born November 10, 1950) is an American writer of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Smith has published nearly 200 novels and hundreds of short stories.
Smith has also written novels for licensed properties such as Star Trek, Spider-Man, X-Men, Men in Black, and many other gaming, television, and movie properties.
Smith's novel Laying the Music to Rest, was nominated for the 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. Smith's short story, In the Shade of the Slowboat Man, was nominated for the 1997 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
He is married to fellow writer/editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch; they have collaborated on several works. Smith and Rusch operated Pulphouse Publishing for many years and edited the original (hardback) incarnation of Pulphouse Magazine; they won a World Fantasy Award in 1989.
Smith attributes his prolific output to a self-developed writing method he calls "cycling", where he does minor edits and revisions as he goes along with a manuscript. The goal is to finish a sellable novel within a few weeks or a month, and without needing a substantial second draft, due to his belief over-writing or endlessly editing a novel tend to diminish its quality.
Bibliography
Shadow Warrior
For Dead Eyes Only, Pocket, October 1997
The Tenth Planet
with Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Tenth Planet, Del Rey, 1999
Oblivion, Del Rey, 2000
The Final Assault, Del Rey, 2000
Pilgrim Hugh Incident
The Case of the Intrusive Furniture, WMG Publishing, 2011
Miss Smallwood's Goodies, WMG Publishing, 2011
The Case of the Dead Lady Blues, WMG Publishing, 2016
The Case of the Lost Treasure, WMG Publishing, 2016
The Case of the Simple Passage, WMG Publishing, 2016
Doc Thriller
Dead Money, WMG Publishing, 2013
Marble Grant
Whistle for Help: A Marble Grant Story, WMG Publishing, 9 May 2021
The First Year: A Marble Grant Novel, WMG Publishing, 20 July 2021
Cold Poker Gang
Kill Game, WMG Publishing, May, 2014
Cold Call, WMG Publishing, February, 2015
Calling Dead, WMG Publishing, May, 2015
Bad Beat, WMG Publishing, January, 2016
Dead Hand, WMG Publishing, June, 2016
Freezeout, WMG Publishing, October, 2016
Ace High, WMG Publishing, February, 2017
Burn Card, WMG Publishing, December, 2017
Heads Up, WMG Publishing, November, 2019
Ring Game, WMG Publishing, April 2020
Bottom Pair, WMG Publishing, June 2021
The Remarkable Way She Died, WMG Publishing, March 2021
Under Glass, WMG Publishing, March 2021
Thunder Mountain
Thunder Mountain, WMG Publishing, January, 2014
Monumental Summit, WMG Publishing, March, 2014
Avalanche Creek, WMG Publishing, November, 2014
The Edwards Mansion, WMG Publishing, January, 2015
Lake Roosevelt, WMG Publishing, March, 2015
Warm Springs, WMG Publishing, April, 2015
Melody Ridge, WMG Publishing, December, 2015
Grapevine Springs, WMG Publishing, April, 2016
The Idanha Hotel, WMG Publishing, July, 2016
The Taft Ranch, WMG Publishing, September, 2016
Tombstone Canyon, WMG Publishing, December, 2017
Dry Creek Crossing, WMG Publishing, December, 2017
Non-fiction
Writing a Novel in Seven Days
Heinlein's Rules
How to Write Fiction Sales Copy
Stages of a Fiction Writer
Writing into the Dark
Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing
Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing
How to Write a Novel in Ten Days
Think Like a Publisher
The First Tee Panic
Smith's Monthly
Smith's Monthly #1, WMG Publishing, October, 2013
Smith's Monthly #2, WMG Publishing, November, 2013
Smith's Monthly #3, WMG Publishing, December, 2013
Smith's Monthly #4, WMG Publishing, January, 2014
Smith's Monthly #5, WMG Publishing, February, 2014
Smith's Monthly #6, WMG Publishing, March, 2014
Smith's Monthly #7, WMG Publishing, April, 2014
Smith's Monthly #8, WMG Publishing, May, 2014
Smith's Monthly #9, WMG Publishing, June, 2014
Smith's Monthly #10, WMG Publishing, July, 2014
Smith's Monthly #11, WMG Publishing, August, 2014
Smith's Monthly #12, WMG Publishing, September, 2014
Smith's Monthly #13, WMG Publishing, October, 2014
Smith's Monthly #14, WMG Publishing, November, 2014
Smith's Monthly #15, WMG Publishing, December, 2014
Smith's Monthly #16, WMG Publishing, January, 2015
Smith's Monthly #17, WMG Publishing, February, 2015
Smith's Monthly #18, WMG Publishing, March, 2015
Smith's Monthly #19, WMG Publishing, April, 2015
Smith's Monthly #20, WMG Publishing, May, 2015
Smith's Monthly #21, WMG Publishing, June, 2015
Smith's Monthly #22, WMG Publishing, July, 2015
Smith's Monthly #23, WMG Publishing, August, 2015
Smith's Monthly #24, WMG Publishing, September, 2015
Smith's Monthly #25, WMG Publishing, October, 2015
Smith's Monthly #26, WMG Publishing, November, 2015
Smith's Monthly #27, WMG Publishing, December, 2015
Smith's Monthly #28, WMG Publishing, January, 2016
Smith's Monthly #29, WMG Publishing, February, 2016
Smith's Monthly #30, WMG Publishing, March, 2016
Smith's Monthly #31, WMG Publishing, April, 2016
Smith's Monthly #32, WMG Publishing, May, 2016
Smith's Monthly #33, WMG Publishing, June, 2016
Smith's Monthly #34, WMG Publishing, July, 2016
Smith's Monthly #35, WMG Publishing, August, 2016
Smith's Monthly #36, WMG Publishing, September, 2016
Smith's Monthly #37, WMG Publishing, October, 2016
Smith's Monthly #38, WMG Publishing, November, 2016
'Smith's Monthly #39, WMG Publishing, December. 2016
Smith's Monthly #40, WMG Publishing, January, 2017
Smith's Monthly #41, WMG Publishing, February, 2017
Smith's Monthly #42, WMG Publishing, March, 2017
Smith's Monthly #43, WMG Publishing, April, 2017
Smith's Monthly #44, WMG Publishing, May, 2017
Smith's Monthly #45, WMG Publishing, January, 2021
Smith's Monthly #46, WMG Publishing, February, 2021
Smith's Monthly #47, WMG Publishing, March, 2021
Smith's Monthly #48, WMG Publishing, April, 2021
Smith's Monthly #49, WMG Publishing, May, 2021
Smith's Monthly #50, WMG Publishing, June, 2021Smith's Monthly #51, WMG Publishing, July, 2021Smith's Monthly #52, WMG Publishing, August, 2021Smith's Monthly #53, WMG Publishing, September, 2021Smith's Monthly #54, WMG Publishing, October, 2021
Seeder's UniverseShadow in the City, WMG Publishing, September, 2010Dust and Kisses, WMG Publishing, January, 2014Against Time, WMG Publishing, February, 2014Sector Justice, WMG Publishing, April, 2014Morning Song, WMG Publishing, August, 2014The High Edge, WMG Publishing, October, 2014Star Mist, WMG Publishing, February, 2016Star Rain,WMG Publishing, March, 2016Star Fall,WMG Publishing, November, 2016A Bad Patch of Humanity, WMG Publishing, March, 2016Dreaming Large, WMG Publishing, March, 2016A Matter for a Future Year, WMG Publishing, March, 2016Starburst, WMG Publishing, January, 2017A Billion Earths, WMG Publishing, March, 2021
Poker BoyThe Slot's of Saturn, WMG Publishing, 2014The Old Girlfriend of Doom, WMG Publishing, 2010Dead Even, WMG Publishing, 2010Gods Aren't Funny, WMG Publishing, 2016Gambling Hell, WMG Publishing, 2013Luck Be a Lady, WMG Publishing, 2010Sighed the Snake, WMG Publishing, 2012The Smoke That Doesn't Bark, WMG Publishing, 2012The War of Poker, WMG Publishing, 2013Daddy is an Undertaker, WMG Publishing, 2012Nonexistent No MOre, WMG Publishing, 2013Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy, WMG Publishing, 2012Pink Shoes and Hot Chocolate, WMG Publishing, 2012Shootout in the Okey-Doke Casino, WMG Publishing, 2012Dried Up, WMG Publishing, 2012The Empty Mummy Murders, WMG Publishing, 2012Living Time, WMG Publishing, 2013Not Saleable For Sale, WMG Publishing, 2013Just Shoot Me Now, WMG Publishing, 2013For the Balance of a Heart, WMG Publishing, 2012A Night With a Forgotten God, WMG Publishing, 2016They're Back, WMG Publishing, 2016Gods Have History, WMG Publishing, 2016Leaking Away a Life, WMG Publishing, 2016The Rude Improbable Presumptive, WMG Publishing, 2016The Women of the Felt, WMG Publishing, 2011Poker Boy vs The Silicon Suckers, WMG Publishing, 2012Luck Be Ladies, WMG Publishing, 2019Playing a Hunch, WMG Publishing, 2020Mystery Cat, WMG Publishing, 2021The Portal of Wrong Love, WMG Publishing, 2021The Tenth Planet series, on which he collaborated with his wife, author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Smith's film novelizations include Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, The Rundown, Steel, The Core, and X-Men.a
Other properties include Aliens, Roswell, Smallville, and Quantum Leap.
His Star Trek novels include original books in series adapted from five of the live action television series: the original series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. He has also written books in the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series, and has edited the contest anthology series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Smith's stories can also be found in almost 20 different anthologies, such as Journeys to the Twilight Zone (1992), The Book of Kings (1995), and Past Lives, Present Tense. He also wrote 4 books with his wife under the name Sandy Schofield.
In 1992, Smith was the founding publisher of Tomorrow Speculative Fiction before selling the magazine to editor Algis Budrys's UniFont.
Collections A Poker Boy Christmas: A Poker Boy Collection, WMG Publishing, 9 November 2021.The End Might Be Interesting After All: Six Really, Really Whacked Out End-of-Things Stories, WMG Publishing, 9 November 2021.Too Strange for the Name: Six Really, Really, Really Whacked Out Stories with Sex, WMG Publishing, 9 November 2021A Case for Aliens: Six Really, Really, Really Whacked Out Alien Stories, WMG Publishing, 26 October 2021Fantasy Love: Six Really, Really, Really Whacked Out Love Stories, WMG Publishing, 26 October 2021Weird Crime: Six Really, Really, Really Whacked Out Crime Stories, WMG Publishing, 26 October 2021Time for Cool Madness: Six Really, Really, Really Strange Marble Grant Stories, WMG Publishing, 26 October 2021Holiday Insanity: Six Really, Really, Really, Whacked Out Holiday Stories, WMG Publishing, 26 October 2021A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection, WMG Publishing, 21 March 2021Luck Be Ladies: A Poker Boy Collection, WMG Publishing, 17 August 2019Alien Vibrations: Five Strange Science Fiction Short Stories, WMG Publishing, 29 December 2017The Case of Pilgrim Hugh: Five STrange Detective Stories, WMG Publishing, 18 April 2017
Short stories
Black Betsy • [Jukebox] (1994) (collected in Mike Resnick's alternate history anthology Alternate Outlaws)
Awards
Smith's novel Laying the Music to Rest, was nominated for the 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.
Smith's short story, In the Shade of the Slowboat Man'', was nominated for the 1997 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.
References
External links
Dean Wesley Smith's Official Homepage
Fantastic Fiction’s Page for Dean Wesley Smith
LibraryThing author profile
Living people
American science fiction writers
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
World Fantasy Award-winning writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
1950 births