Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.
Follow to get new release updates, special offers (including promotional offers), and improved recommendations.
About Dean Wesley Smith
Customers Also Bought Items By
Are you an author?
Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Author Updates
-
-
-
Blog postDrink a Beverage of Choice… As some of you know, and that I talked about a week or so ago because I am slow reading stories sent to me, I somehow got Optic Nuritis in my only good eye. Pretty much blind for a few days, most spent in doctors and emergency rooms. Since then I have very limited vision which they say should get better over the next month to six months.
(No idea what caused it, no cure, and no I do not have MS. I am typing this with the letters blown up way, way large.) < -
Blog postWhy Streaks and Challenges? I get asked that question a lot. Why do I pay so much attention to streaks and challenges??
I once again proved to myself tonight with this blog why. Let me lightly paint the picture.
3 am. The air outside the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of our bedroom was a cold-for-Vegas 43 degrees. Lights and computers were off in my office and I had watched all of thirty minutes of television downstairs before nodding off. I was shivering and just about to c -
Blog postAt The Same Time All Over the World… Those of us who knew Greg Bear, or had met him, or admired his work, raised a drink in toast to him. Astrid Bear, his wonderful wife, came up with the idea and I thought it was perfect.
As Kris and I tend to do when we lose a friend like Greg, or Mike or Gardner, or Eric or Dave or… or… or… we talk about the last time we were with them. Our favorite moments with them, favorite meals out of hundreds and hundreds. We remembered that time at breakfas -
Blog postFinally Coming Back… Been dealing with this eye injury for about a month now, then got a horrid cold, worst one I have had in years, actually, that made my eyes blurry on top of the injury. So a fun couple of days being mostly blind and sneezing. Joy.
But as the cold slowly clears, I feel like I am coming out of a fog bank and seeing the sun again. And clearly, under the cold-caused crap, my eyes are slowly improving. Yay! A couple more days and I will only be dealing with the eye is -
Blog postI Got #50 Done… I asked Kris to be my back-up. I can’t see all the numbers on the face of the oven, for example, and she helped with that. She was there when I was doing anything with something hot, letting me do it but standing by. She went with me to get potatoes that I had forgotten to buy to help me find them in the store.
For those of you who have been reading my last couple posts, #50 is the 50th year I have cooked myself the exact same meal on Thanksgiving. And also, I have a -
Blog postWe All Have Our Stories and Traditions… I had no tradition for this holiday growing up. None. My family was so unpleasant at its very core, a holiday forcing all of them into one place was my definition of a nightmare.
So after five years of being out on my own, my father and his new wife (worse than my mother, which I must say took some doing) were in Palm Springs over Thanksgiving where I had a nice place and was a golf professional. Stupidly, I offered to cook for them.
Th -
Blog postA Book and a Movie… First off, on the topic I told you about last night, I have been writing (like well over a hundred novels and hundreds of short stories) in the last ten years with one eye. Sp when my good eye had troubles a month ago, I sort of freaked out, then settled in to trying to figure out how I would keep going. Just who I am.
For a decade in Lincoln City, the town, the environment, and the house we lived in was slowly killing Kris. Turns out in hindsight, she has a death -
Blog postEye Issue… Since I have mentioned this on a number of workshops and places, figured for a short post I would tell you all here.
Many of you know I only have one eye. Back right before I started this streak on this blog, about eleven years ago, I lost almost all the vision in my right eye to a stroke in the back of the eye. I caused it, and I have lived with the one eye ever since.
Well, about four weeks ago, I woke up mostly blind. (Now if that doesn’t twist you up, nothing w -
Blog postHoliday Spectacular Also Starts This Week!! I have been sending out codes to everyone signed up on the special workshops from the Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter. (The Stretch Goal workshops will go out shortly,)
So if you did not get a letter from me and you think you are signed up, please first check your spam filters. There are links in the letters. If not there, email me.
My reading of stories is picking back up speed as I am getting through some eye issues. I should be c -
Blog postFOR ONE DAY ONLY!!!! I have all six of the December Regular workshops up, so for all of Sunday (until I get up and turn off the codes on Monday morning), the December Regular Workshops only are 30% off.
Nothing else, so please don’t ask. I will just ignore your letter and attempt to forget you asked.
Here are the six December regular workshops.
Class #54… Dec 6th … Writing into the Dark
Class #55… Dec 6th … Teams in Fiction
Class #56… Dec 7th … Depth in Wr
Titles By Dean Wesley Smith
$8.99
$4.99
