Dean Wesley Smith

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Dean Wesley Smith
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Smith in 2018
Born (1950-11-10) November 10, 1950 (age 73)
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction, mystery, fantasy
Spouse Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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.

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Smith has also written novels for various media franchises including 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. [1] 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

The Tenth Planet

with Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Pilgrim Hugh Incident

Doc Thriller

Marble Grant

Cold Poker Gang

Thunder Mountain

Non-fiction

Smith's Monthly

Seeder's Universe

Poker Boy

The 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.

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  1. This method is outlined in detail in several of Smith's instructional books, including Writing into the Dark: How to Write a Novel without an Outline (2015)