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Dean Wesley Smith

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http://www.deanwesleysmith.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Pen Names
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.

With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley S ...more

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Don’t Lose December… Challenge Yourself!

Last Year Kris Did A Challenge…

And that challenge helped a lot of people keep writing in December, a time when writing often slacks off. It is much more difficult to start cold in January than to just keep writing from a good pace in December.

So we are doing another challenge for December. A really, really fun and helpful one.

Here are the details…

Level One… Challenge yourself to write 4 short stor Read more of this blog post »

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Dean Wesley Smith’s books

Average rating: 3.8 · 27,397 ratings · 2,862 reviews · 822 distinct works • Similar authors

	Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery 3.93 avg rating — 2,317 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soldiers of Fear (Star Trek: The Next Generation, #41; Invasion, #2) by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 1,174 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing into the Dark: How to Write a Novel without an Outline 4.05 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Escape by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Against Time (Seeders Universe, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Echos (Star Trek Voyager, #15) by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author), Nina Kiriki Hoffman 3.73 avg rating — 622 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By the Book (Star Trek: Enterprise #2) by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) (Draft Writer) 3.65 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vectors (Star Trek: The Next Generation, #52; Double Helix, #2) by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thunder Mountain: A Thunder Mountain Novel 3.98 avg rating — 443 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Dean Wesley Smith

Cold Poker Gang (16 books)
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3.99 avg rating — 2,985 ratings

Men In Black (4 books)
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3.91 avg rating — 1,322 ratings

Thunder Mountain (11 books)
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Smith's Monthly (50 books)
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3.41 avg rating — 87 ratings

Ghost of a Chance (3 books)
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3.99 avg rating — 69 ratings

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Quotes by Dean Wesley Smith (?)

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.”
― Dean Wesley Smith

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“I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.”
― Dean Wesley Smith

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“When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So as I go along, I outline each book as I write it. I never outline ahead of the writing, but after the writing is done. That keeps the creative side of my brain in control of the writing.”
― Dean Wesley Smith, Writing into the Dark: How to Write a Novel without an Outline

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