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The publishing world continues to evolve, but myths about who can make a living as a fiction writer maintain a life of their own. Whether you pursue traditional or indie publishing success, you need to know the pitfalls and traps that undermine many writers' careers.In this WMG Writer's Guide, USA Today bestselling author and former publisher Dean Wesley Smith addresses the ten most damaging myths that writers believe in modern publishing.Topics Include: Right vs. WrongWriting SpeedRewritingAgentsBooks as EventsQualityWriting to TrendsMaking MoneyWriting is HardCareer Killer

Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this eighth volume the full and complete novel, Life of a Dream, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this sixth volume the full and complete mystery novel Kill Game, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Nearly seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this twentieth volume the full and complete novel, The Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy: Headed West, a western novel, plus five short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

Nearly seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this nineteenth volume the full and complete novel, Heaven Painted as a Free Meal: A Ghost of a Chance novel, plus four short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

Near seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this eighteenth volume the full and complete novel, Calling Dead: A Cold Poker Gang novel, plus five short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

Near seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this sixteenth volume the full and complete novel, Lake Roosevelt: A Thunder Mountain series novel, plus five short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

Near seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this fifteenth volume the full and complete novel, Cold Call: A Cold Poker Gang series mystery novel, plus four short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

Near seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this fourteenth volume the full and complete novel, The Edwards Mansion series mystery novel, plus four short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

Near eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this thirteenth volume the full and complete novel, Heaven Painted as a Christmas Gift: A Ghost of a Chance series novel, plus five short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this eleventh volume the full and complete novel, The High Edge: A Seeders Universe novel, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Near eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this twelfth volume the full and complete novel, Avalanche Creek: A Thunder Mountain series novel, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this tenth volume the full and complete novel, Heaven Painted as a Poker Chip, plus five short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this ninth volume the full and complete novel, Morning Song, plus four short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this seventh volume the full and complete Poker Boy novel, The Slots of Saturn, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith knows how to outline. And he knows how to write a novel without an outline.In this WMG Writer's Guide, Dean takes you step-by-step through the process of writing without an outline and explains why not having an outline boosts your creative voice and keeps you more interested in your writing.Want to enjoy your writing more and entertain yourself? Then toss away your outline and Write into the Dark.

Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk-and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth's fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats. Crossing genre lines through science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical, and mainstream, these adrenaline-pumping stories about taking risks offer nothing but reward. "... fans of the unconventional will be well satisfied." -Publishers Weekly on Fiction River: Pulse Pounders "Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives is a great choice for anyone who loves it when genres are swirled together. It's nominally more heavily influenced by mystery conventions and tropes, but the science fiction and fantasy elements in it are almost as strong." -Long and Short Reviews on Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives

Laws change from culture to culture, decade to decade. Strange laws make criminals of ordinary citizens. Like the Massachusetts woman whose brother asks her for help, slave hunters at his heels. Or the Chinese immigrant who finds himself in the middle of a crooked game of Fan Tan. Or the Native American detective searching New York's Stonewall Bar for a ratfink on the night of a world-changing riot. These stories and more prove that once again, Fiction River's crime volumes have, in the words of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, "high quality throughout." "Meeting the exceptional quality of previous anthologies, this collection contains excellent past crimes short stories." -Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine on Fiction River: Past Crime Table of Contents "Stolen in Passing" by Dory Crowe "Choices" by Laura Ware "The Monster in Our Midst" by Kris Nelscott "The Raiders" by Cat Rambo "The Piper's Plot" by Anthea Lawson "She Walks in Beauty" by Brenda Carre "The Priest Hunter" by Patrick O'Sullivan "The Horns of Hathor" by Richard Quarry "Impressions" by Lisa Silverthorne "An Education for Thursday" by Dean Wesley Smith "New World Gambles" by Leah Cutter "The Bank Teller" by Jamie McNabb "The Curious Case of the Ha'Penny Detective" by Lee Allred "Blood and Lightning on the Newport Highway" by Elizabeth Castle "Deathmobile" by Michele Lang "The Stonewall Rat" by JC Andrijeski

Even in today's fast-paced world, the myth that writing fast equals writing badly-or, conversely, writing well equals writing slowly-persists. Now, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith aims to shatter this myth once and for all with this latest WMG Writer's Guide. In a series of blog posts, Smith chronicled his process toward ghost writing a 70,000-word novel for a traditional publisher in just ten days. He wrote about his progress, his feelings about the writing, and how he approached and overcame obstacles. This book takes readers on a journey that demonstrates that writing fast, and writing well, comes from motivation and practice.

Fantastic detectives come in many forms, from dogs to elves to eggs. (Yes, eggs.) And fantastic detective stories come in all mystery subgenres, from cozy to hard-boiled. (Remember. Eggs.) All of these forms and subgenres combine to create one of the most delightful additions to the Fiction River anthology series. With stories featuring New York Times bestseller Kevin J. Anderson's popular zombie detective Dan Shamble and USA Today bestseller Dean Wesley Smith's most beloved character, Poker Boy, Fantastic Detectives provides Fiction River's most creative volume yet! "Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives is a great read if you like to blend mystery with your fantasy. Check it out." -Keith West, Amazing Stories "Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives is a great choice for anyone who loves it when genres are swirled together. It's nominally more heavily influenced by mystery conventions and tropes, but the science fiction and fantasy elements in it are almost as strong." -Long and Short Reviews

For a vampire, saying goodbye to your mortal lover can be the hardest thing you ever have to do. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a Nebula Award nominated story from USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith.

Near seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this seventeenth volume the full and complete novel, Warm Springs: A Thunder Mountain series novel, plus four short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.

As indie publishing flourishes, many, many myths form around this new booming area of publishing. USA Today bestselling author and major indie blogger Dean Wesley Smith takes a cut at killing some of the myths before they can take root.From the myth that indie writers can't get books into bookstores (they can) to the idea that indie publishing must be easy (it is and it isn't), Dean knocks ten myths down one after another and might just save you years of wasted time.Author of the acclaimed Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing, this companion WMG Writer's Guide for indie writers and publishers will become a necessity for your reference shelf.

Former PGA Golf Professional and USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith walks you step-by-step, club-by-club from your car to the first tee and beyond in a laugh-out-loud style that not only teaches, but entertains. Any golfer recognizes the fears, the patterns, the downright horrors of the first shot of a round. Ever topped that first shot just off the front edge of the tee box? Or worse yet, whiffed it completely? Come on, admit it. It happened. Remember? The problems with that first shot don't start with the swing. Nope, the problems start in the parking lot. And this book will get you flawlessly from the parking lot, through the clubhouse, onto the driving range, over the putting green, and finally successfully off the first tee with a smile.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith finally gives the popular Captain Brian Saber his first full-length novel. Brian Saber and Dot Leeds constantly must leave their nursing home rooms and their aging bodies to fly across known space to save the Earth and the Earth Protection League. They love the job, they love feeling needed.But in the end, will being needed be enough?A novel of hope and a future that will leave you smiling and wishing you could join the Earth Protection League, when you get old enough.

Over one hundred thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this second volume the full and complete science fiction novel Thunder Mountain, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

One hundred thousand words of original fiction every month from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this first volume, a full science fiction romance novel called "Dust and Kisses," four original short stories, the start of two original adventure serial stories, and a nonfiction article on Dean's professional golf days. Plus more.

From a twisted tale of greed by masterful writer Kate Wilhelm to a dark tale of murder and betrayal by Shamus-award winner Brendan DuBois, Fiction River Special Edition: Crime covers the entire gamut of the mystery genre-cozy to noir. New York Times bestselling author Julie Hyzy joins Edgar Award-winner Doug Allyn and several others to create one of the strongest (and most diverse) anthologies of the season. "Fiction River: Crime edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch leads off with strong new tales by three familiar EQMM contributors: Doug Allyn with a gangster whodunnit, Steve Hockensmith with a con game story, and Brendan DuBois with a fresh variation on the old brothers-who-took-different-paths ploy. A sampling of other contents, including experimental short-shorts by Melissa Yi and M. Elizabeth Castle and a clever turn on the greedy-relatives-want-inheritance by Kate Wilhelm, suggest high quality throughout." -Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine on Fiction River Special Edition: Crime "Among the volume's better entries are Doug Allyn's "Hitler's Dogs," in which narrator Doc Bannan seeks the truth about his gang mentor's death, and Steve Hockensmith's "Wheel of Fortune," which relates the schemes of a pair of con artists." -Publishers Weekly on Fiction River Special Edition: Crime "[Fiction River] is one of the best and most exciting publications in the field today. Check out an issue and see why I say that." -Keith West, Adventures Fantastic

Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this fifth volume the full and complete science fiction novel Sector Justice, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.

Starships in all their glory! FTL drive, microgravity or stargates. Trapped, stranded or moving from place to place. Warships, space shuttles, generation ships. Shipwrecks, transports, intergalactic accidents. Humor and drama across the Milky Way and beyond! 10 stories of starships and their crews. "Stellar Darkness Adrift " by Meyari McFarland "Murphy's Law" by Douglas Smith "The Darkest Void of Space" by Lesley L. Smith "Sunlit Dispositions" by Jason Adams "Solitary Man" by Russ Crossley "Starship Pilot" by Barbara G.Tarn "Mozart Brown" by Fulvio Gatti "Bi-Quinary Search" by Gerald M. Weinberg "Boudreaux" by Ezekiel James Boston "Dreaming Large" by Dean Wesley Smith