Bücher von Dean Wesley Smith

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to the world of Dust and Kisses with a new novel.Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought.Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason. Suddenly, hundreds of other ships, all human, appear in orbit and start working to save the planet's remaining population.Together, Callie and Fisher work to discover the secrets of a galaxy that has been hidden in plain sight, even from the powerful humans who rescued millions. And in the process, they just might change everything.

Exploring the vastness of space: The mission of the massive Starburst ships.Chairmen Cole and Echo of the Starburst ship Star Trail get wrapped up in finding lost ancient cultures.And in the process find far more than they ever could imagine.Starburst takes the vast Seeders Universe and expands it yet again beyond where humans dare go.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a third novel, Morning Song.A massive ship powers toward the Milky Way Galaxy, threatening to destroy entire worlds. The rogue ship, the size of a moon, seems to have no entrance.With little time before millions die, Maria Boone and Roscoe Mundy must somehow take a small team into the massive ship to stop it.A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure and suspense and the humanity that can exist in a vast culture.

The fight with the genetically engineered aliens seems impossible. Benny and Gina, both Seeders, stand on the bridge of their massive mother ship knowing they needed miracles to win.They both know that if they work long enough and hard enough, miracles might happen. Centuries worth of work.A massive-scale Seeders Universe story that started in the novel Star Mist.

A dead alien ship appears close to human space. But in millions of years, no alien race managed to leave its own galaxy.The alien ship originated in a galaxy over two hundred thousand years of travel away. But the Seeders need to know about the alien race, in case they are a threat.Star Mist takes on the vast scale of the Seeders Universe and expands it even more.Galaxy-spanning science fiction at its very best.

From acclaimed Star Trek writer Dean Wesley Smith comes Rescue Two, the latest novel in the Seeders Universe-a space opera series that offers a vision of hope for humanity in dark times.In deep space, bubbles of void space form to keep a balance between matter, space, and time. Inside these bubbles, time barely exists. Five days for a ship trapped in a bubble might be equal to millions of years in real time.For seven million years, Seeders did not know these bubbles existed and ships kept just vanishing until Chairman Evan West discovered the Void Space Bubbles and learned how to free trapped ships.Now Chairman West, his wife Tammy, and the thirty-five-thousand crew of the Rescue Two must find and free the ancient Seeder ships.A galaxy-spanning rescue mission like no other before it.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to a not-so-distant future in his acclaimed Seeders Universe series.Mattie Silks must team up with the most unlikely of partners to save the sector from a ruthless dictator. But her problem with Red Simms stems from more than just his work with Innocence Incorporated. She can't keep her hands off him.And he can't seem to keep his hands off her either.With or without love, the two of them must save the galaxy.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a fourth novel, The High Edge.Benny Slade lives in New York City. One moment the city around him (and everyone he knows) seems normal. The next moment, everyone dies.Working to survive among the dead (and plan for a future) feels impossible, but Benny doesn't give up easily. Especially when he meets the woman of his dreams, and she offers to help him and others survive.And then she offers him an even a bigger job, a job that could take him out into the stars.

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeder's Universe series with a seventh novel, Star Fall.Seeders never do anything in a small way, including their sports. Matt and Carey, the chairmen of the Starburst ship Star Fall started a yearly relay race from the very front of their ship to the tail and back again. An extreme relay of over nine thousand kilometers run by ten-member teams.But before the race could start, a scout ship vanishes inside a shielded galaxy. Who could put a shield around an entire galaxy? And why?A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure, suspense, and the vast possibilities of space.

The tenth anthology of all-original, never-before-published stories written by fans, for fans.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they succeed at closing old cases.Lott''s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But retired Reno detective Julia Rogers, new to the Cold Poker Gang, suggests they look at that case again for personal reasons.From that simple suggestion spins one of the strangest and most complicated murder mystery puzzles the gang has ever seen.Read the whole thrilling series:Kill GameCold CallCalling DeadBad BeatDead HandFreezeoutAce HighBurn CardHeads UpRing GameBottom Pair

1991. The famous Las Vegas hotel The Landmark scheduled for destruction. A girl''s body found in one of the old rooms. Impossible to even tell her identity or what happened to her.Seventeen years later Cold Poker Gang members Pickett and Sarge take up the girl''s long-cold case. And layer by layer they uncover one of the most twisted crimes in the history of the famous sin city.A crime that still needs to be covered up with even more death.Ace High wins the award for the most twisted crime novel yet in the series of Cold Poker Gang novels. If you love great mystery books, grab this one.

Sandy Hunter kissed her husband goodbye one normal morning on her way to work. She never made it. Last seen walking alone into a Las Vegas hotel room, she never came out and no sign of her remained in that room.Her missing person''s case went cold for fourteen years until retired Las Vegas detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson, members of the Cold Poker Gang, decided to investigate how a woman could vanish from a locked hotel room without a trace.Another twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery from the prolific mind of USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. If you love puzzle mystery novels, grab a Cold Poker Gang mystery novel.

As the modern publishing industry continues to evolve, writers look for help to navigate the changing landscape.In this WMG Writer''s Guide Bundle on the Industry, New York Times bestselling authors and renowned business bloggers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith help writers find success in the ever-changing world of publishing.In Rethinking the Writing Business, Rusch provokes writers to think about their own careers as a business with limits only the writers, themselves, impose. From information on IP and licensing to what the writing industry truly looks like today, Rusch lifts the veil on the potential for every writer''s business to thrive.In Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing, Smith addresses the ten most damaging myths that writers believe in modern publishing to illustrate the pitfalls and traps that undermine many writers'' careers.In Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing, Smith knocks ten myths down one after another-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)-and might just save you years of wasted time.

All writers face obstacles to their productivity-sometimes physical, sometimes mental, sometimes both.In this WMG Writer''s Guide Bundle on Productivity, New York Times bestselling authors and renowned business bloggers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith share their personal journeys to help guide writers to overcome these obstacles and reach their goals.In Writing with Chronic Illness, Rusch offers words of wisdom for writers who suffer from chronic illnesses and who want to keep working, to improve their craft and spread their creative wings.In How to Write a Novel in Ten Days, Smith aims to once and for all shatter the myth that writing fast equals writing badly-or, conversely, writing well equals writing slowly-while taking readers on a journey that demonstrates that writing fast, and writing well, come from motivation and practice.In Writing a Novel in Five Days While Traveling, Smith gives an intimate day-to-day, minute-by-minute account of how he wrote a full novel in five days while traveling, including tips on how to prepare for the writing as well as what to do when the trip gets in the way.In Writing a Novel in Seven Days, Smith chronicles his process chapter-by-chapter toward writing a 43,000-word novel in just seven days. He writes about his progress, his feelings about the project, and how he approaches and overcomes obstacles.

The secret of a great story often lies in the writer''s ability to hone their craft. But many struggle to do so without destroying their unique voice.In this WMG Writer''s Guide Bundle on Craft, New York Times bestselling authors and renowned business bloggers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith help writers successfully develop their skills for a long-term writing career.In The Write Attitude, Rusch shows writers how they can do what they love and love what they do without sabotaging their own success.In Writing into the Dark, Smith 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.In The Pursuit of Perfection, Rusch discusses the destructive ways peer workshops and the quest for perfection derail many writers'' careers, offers hope for writers who have suffered at the hands of critique-external and internal-and outlines a path to healing.In Stages of a Fiction Writer, Smith takes you step-by-step through the stages most fiction writers go through and how not to lose hope along the way.

Making the wrong decisions on the business side of publishing can destroy a writer''s career.In this WMG Writer''s Guide Bundle on Business, New York Times bestselling authors and renowned business bloggers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith share the best practices that have helped shape their successful careers.In Heinlein''s Rules: Five Simple Business Rules for Writing, Smith takes you step-by-step through Heinlein''s Rules and shows how following those rules can change your writing-and career-for the better.In Closing the Deal...on Your Terms, Rusch takes writers-whether self-published, traditionally published, or hybrid-on a journey that will help them understand what they''re selling and what they could accidentally give away.In The Magic Bakery, Smith helps writers understand the very nature of their business, how to sell more, and make more money from every story. Using the metaphor of a magic bakery, copyright becomes easy to understand, and the writing business makes far more sense.

Being a successful author requires more than just writing a great book. In the modern world of indie publishing, getting readers to buy your book takes marketing savvy.In this WMG Writer''s Guide Bundle on Marketing, New York Times bestselling authors and renowned business bloggers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith help writers navigate the complicated world of publishing.In How to Write Fiction Sales Copy, Smith addresses the major challenges that lead to bad sales copy-including using passive voice and too much plot-and offers 32 examples from his own stories to illustrate his points.In Creating Your Author Brand, Rusch teaches the basic concepts of branding and helps authors convert those concepts into useful action to individually brand themselves to maximize reader recognition.In Discoverability, which was named one of the 11 Best Book Marketing Books, Rusch offers professional writers the most comprehensive guide available today to help them make an informed decision about the best marketing approaches for their writing businesses.

USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith presents thirty-four different short stories ranging across most of his different series.Sixty-six more stories await in the previous two volumes.Hours of reading from one of the greatest short story writers working today. Make sure you get all three volumes.

USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith presents thirty-three different short stories ranging across most of his different series.Sixty-seven more stories await in the previous and subsequent two volumes.Hours of reading from one of the greatest short story writers working today. Make sure you get all three volumes.