http://deanwesleysmith.com Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:41:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Okay, as promised, this is a short summary of my opinion about the value of going to a convention or a writer's conference. First off, a definition of the difference. A convention in my language means a gathering such as the World Science Fiction Convention, or BoucherCon, which is the ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/08/22/why-go-to-a-conventionconference/ I had a great time, to put it simply. This was my first Worldcon in eleven years, but many times it felt as if I had been there every year. Lots of new faces and even more old friends. As for what happened?  Well, it is far too much to detail out ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/08/13/world-science-fiction-convention/ A number of months back I talked about how I came into professional fiction writing, the short story per week and such. But Laura asked a question after my last post that I figured might be helpful to talk about. In so many words, the question is simply "Did I ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/07/31/a-learning-process/ I get lots of questions about writing fast and how I do it? Often the question goes something like this: "How do you put out so many books?" Or more bluntly, "I wish I could write as fast as you, how do you do it?" Or they hear I ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/07/26/writing-fast/ I got a lot of responses from my post about agents and the state of the industry right now. And most of those asked how to get an unusual book in front of editors these days if they couldn't get an agent to bite. Well, there is one ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/07/21/one-way-to-the-editors/ As I continue to slowly work on the bibliography section of this site, I thought this book might be a fun one to mention up front here. Actually, this is only one book in a four book series I wrote under this title for Adventure Boys. None of ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/07/13/young-adult-book-series/ Okay, I am going to be very careful with this post. I get a ton of questions about agents, and Kris and I spend a week in the marketing workshop dealing on this topic and other submissions of novels topics. (Check out the workshop list if you are interested. The ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/07/10/agents-and-selling-a-book/ As I slowly put together the bibliography section of this web site, I decided to talk about some books up front here, as I did under the Schofield name. And I do mean slowly, especially when there are about eighty novels I can talk about and well over a ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/07/06/about-a-fun-novel/ I have a wonderful office. It is a full building, where my writing office is the entire upstairs with a fantastic view of the Pacific Ocean. Downstairs is a kitchen, living room, and Kris and my business office. It is where we do all of our e-mail ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/06/30/looking-out-the-window/ The one writing question I tend to get the most is a simple one. "Why do I write under so many names?" I usually want to say, but never do, "Because I can." Actually, that's the most accurate answer. But before I jump into that aspect of this, let ... http://deanwesleysmith.com/index.php/2008/06/28/by-any-other-name/