Do You Know Dean Wesley Smith?

It's feasible a number of you know he changed into a seasoned golfer, oh, maybe 30 years in the past. Dean nonetheless loves golfing, but he decided that the pro route wasn't for him.

It's more likely that you know him as a science fiction writer, although he writes other kinds of fiction under different pen names. He's probably best known for his Star Trek novels and for movie novelizations like The Core and X-Men. You may also know him for his collaborations with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch, like The 10th Kingdom series. (She was also editor at The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for six years, as well as being a well-known author on her own, most notably for the Fey series.) Both of them do a lot to help other writers, and I have links to both of their blogs in my sidebar.

Today Dean's blog had a post called New Challenge and since we never want to forget that there's more to life than golf, I thought I'd call it to your attention -- at least, the attention of you fiction readers out there.

You can get all of the information from Dean's publish, but right here's the gist of it:

Dean's project a writing mission to write down at the least a hundred tales over the following 12 months. (Yeah, he's nuts. But it enables whilst your spouse is an award-triumphing editor.) He tried this last 12 months but the plan got derailed whilst a close pal died and left him the very messy activity of being executor of his property. He's prepared to begin again, however he's going to make this mission greater concerned. Apparently he desires more motivation, so he's supplying a subscription carrier to this assignment:

• Each month you'll get at least 6 different stories in autographed paperback editions, plus a code to download a free electronic version of the story.
• Each of those paperbacks will be from 30 to 100 pages long, so we're talking about some substantial reading here.
• As the number of stories increases, he'll be releasing them in collections. You won't get paperbacks of the collections, but you will get free electronic versions if you want them.

If for some purpose he does not make the 6 tale monthly quota, he will consist of a unfastened autographed novel or other brief story collection to make up the distinction. In different phrases, you may get 6 autographed books every month regardless of what occurs.

The subscription fee is $25 a month, and you could start or forestall whenever you want. If you sign up within the center of the month, you get that complete month's haul.

And Dean could be posting each story on his weblog totally free whilst he writes it, then changing it with the following tale while that's completed. That manner in case you've never study any of his stuff, you can "test drive" his paintings before you decide to a subscription.

If you like to read science fiction and fantasy, it's a pretty sweet deal. I wanted to pass it on to you because it's an unusual offer from a good writer who just loves to write. You can keep up with the releases by just clicking the WRITING: Dean Wesley Smith's blog link in the My Other Blog List gadget in the sidebar.