Dean Wesley Smith

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley 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. This book functions as a guide to help writers gain more from every story they write, protect their property, and understand how to expand their business into the future.Clear, easy to read, and full of insights from a forty-year-career writer who understands how every story contains magic. Want more sales, more money from your writing? Come on in to The Magic Bakery.

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.

Over fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this thirty-second monthly volume the full novel They're Back: A Poker Boy Short Novel, plus seven short stories and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest.Short StoriesA Bad Patch of Humanity: A Seeders Universe StoryA Great First Day: A Ghost of a Chance StoryThe Problem of Grapevine Springs: A Thunder Mountain StoryBest Eaten on a Slow TuesdayMake Myself Just One More: A Mary Jo Assassin StoryWhy Delay? Just Rub: A Bryant Street StoryIdanha Hotel: A Thunder Mountain StoryFull NovelThey're Back: A Poker Boy Short NovelSerial FictionLaying the Music to Rest (Part 5)NonfictionIntroduction: A Basics Issue

First, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith shattered the myth that writing fast equals writing badly-or, conversely, writing well equals writing slowly-with his book How to Write a Novel in Ten Days.Now, Smith raises the stakes with this latest book, Writing a Novel in Seven Days. Chapter by chapter, Smith chronicles his process 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. This WMG Writer's Guide demonstrates that setting an aggressive writing goal, and accomplishing that goal, can prove successful with the right attitude and tools.