Stories from July

Poker Boy #33-35 (Gods Have History & Leaki

by Dean Wesley Smith

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith decided to take his love for short fiction a step forward. In July of 2015, he wrote thirty-two short stories, one per day and one extra. Then, every day, he also wrote a short article about the writing of the story.

Now the articles and stories combine into this major collection that also works as a master class on the art of storytelling.

Follow a professional writer through a month of creation and enjoy some wonderful fiction at the same time.

Genres: Short Stories

553 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 13, 2015

About the author

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 Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.

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.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

Reviews

[Jim Turnbo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazingly Entertaining!

The fact each of these stories were written in just a few hours for the month of July is amazing. Loved everyone of them. Half left me wanting more.

[Dean Shearer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good un.

[Joseph Cleary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good collection, great variety of stories.

[David Macpherson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book a great deal. The Writer created a challenge to write a story a day in July. He then blogged about the process. The stories and the blogs are included. Some of the stories are excellent, some feel like finger exercises, but the whole thing was fascinating. He goes on about his philosophy of self publishing and writing into the dark, and that's fine. For a book filled with a good amount of stories I didn't care for, this was a pager turner for me.

[Britt Malka · Rating 5 out of 5]

I knew of some of the series in this book, but I never thought I would read them. I wasn't interested.

Since they were a part of this book, I read them and found them really good. A nice surprise.

I love how the author gives an introduction to each short story and tells us what his "starter" for the story was.

This book is a pleasure to readers and an inspiration for writers.

[Bowweaver · Rating 3 out of 5]

Normally a 2 star but I like the idea behind the book and how he executed it.