Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published over two hundred novels and over seven hundred books in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories. He has over thirty million copies of his books in print.

At the moment he produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the cold case mystery series, Cold Poker Gang series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy.

During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, they wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.

He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from X-Men to The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.

Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as executive editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. He took over the editorship of the acclaimed Pulphouse Magazine in 2018.

For more information about Dean's books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com

WMG Publishing Presents: Dealing With Toxic People by Dean Wesley Smith

All writers have people around them that either want to help but get in the way, or who have the best intentions to stop your writing for your own good, or even enemies and trolls. Friends, family, other writers. Toxic people come in all forms and methods.

This pop-up identifies nine major types of toxic people around you and gives you ways you can deal with them, train them, or get away from them.

No writer escapes these types of people, good or bad intentioned as they may be. You might not even know you have them around you. If nothing else, this Pop-Up will give you tools and awareness.

And as you can imagine with this topic, there is a really fun short story assignment with this one as well.

CURATOR'S NOTE

For some reason, toxic people attach themselves to writers. Whether it's a wannabe writer who wants to pull a published writer down to their level or a family member who doesn't understand why anyone would waste time writing, toxic people seem to show up everywhere. They suck the air out of the room and they seem impossible to deal with. But they aren't. This online workshop will teach you how to manage the toxic people in your life, and keep them from overwhelming your work. – Kristine Kathryn Rusch

 
 

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