Dean Wesley Smith has 19 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 17 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is Spider-Man: Carnage in New York.
Spider-Man: Carnage in New York
Summary
A vicious serial killer named Cletus Kasady has had his body chemistry altered by an alien creature. Now, Kasady can transform into Carnage, who, along with his lethal living costume, lives for chaos and random acts of senseless, brutal murder! Carnage has been returned to New York in chains, the subject of a daring attempt to reverse the effects of his metamorphosis. When the interference of a deranged scientist causes the experiment to go horribly wrong, Carnage is set loose upon the city once again! Now it's up to Spider-Man to stop his deadliest foe before he unleashes carnage in New York!
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Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing
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As indie publishing flourishes, many, many myths form around this new booming area of publishing. USA Today best-selling author and major indie blogger Dean Wesley Smith takes a cut at killing some of the myths before they can take root. 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), Dean knocks 10 myths down one after another and might just save you years of wasted time. Author of the acclaimed Killing the Top 10 Sacred Cows of Publishing, this companion WMG Writer's Guide for indie writers and publishers will become a necessity for your reference shelf.
©2014 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2015 Dean Wesley Smith
The Wages of the Moment
Summary
When Stout watches himself appear and dissappear a bunch of times right in front of his own jukebox, he knows his time machine needs some repairs. And in doing so, he finally gets to meet the inventors of the jukebox. But first he must deal with himself, in more ways than one.
©2013 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2013 Dean Wesley Smith
Kill Game
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USA Today best-selling 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 20 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.
©2014 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2015 Dean Wesley Smith
Avalanche Creek: Thunder Mountain, Book 3
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Returning to the time travel western world of Thunder Mountain, USA Today best-selling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves his most complex story to date. In one timeline, to help with an advanced math problem, Bonnie and Duster Kendal hire Brice Lincoln. In a second timeline, to help with an advanced math problem, Bonnie and Duster Kendal hire Dixie Smith. When Brice and Dixie finally meet in the past, there is instant attraction. And instant problems.
©2015 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2015 Dean Wesley Smith
Monumental Summit
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USA Today best-selling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his Thunder Mountain universe with Monumental Summit, a science fiction novel of the Old West and true love. Bonnie and Duster Kendal, two of the world's great mathematicians, hire historical interior designer April Buckley and architect Ryan Knott to design and furnish a huge lodge to the year 1900 standards. Only problem: The lodge can't be built. It can't exist. Yet, somehow it does because they've built it before. And fell in love in the process.
©2014 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2014 Dean Wesley Smith
Thunder Mountain
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A science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past they both love and study. Offered a free trip into a remote Idaho wilderness that she loves and studies, Professor Dawn Edwards can't refuse. On the trip she meets Professor Madison Rogers, and they fall for each other before they even reach their destination. But living in the Old West proves to be a brutal task at times. Somehow, Dawn must survive to rescue herself, her friends, and the man she loves. A science fiction novel of the old west and true love.
©2014 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2014 Dean Wesley Smith
Dust and Kisses
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USA Today best-selling writer Dean Wesley Smith weaves a tale of love and survival in a devastated future world. When Carey Noack returns to the ruined Portland, Oregon, hoping to meet other survivors after three years of living alone, she doesn't expect the man of her dreams. At first, Matt Ladel, the only person living in the old city, thinks he imagined the beautiful woman weaving through dead cars. Then he finds the reality behind the fantasy. Suddenly, the two experts in survival and living alone must learn to work together, and trust again, in the face of an even greater danger. A novel of love, hope, and a future.
©2014 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2014 Dean Wesley Smith
Fiction River: Hex in the City
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Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of 14 top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C., and ending the tour in London, these top writers take the idea of "Hex" and stretch and twist it into stories with a magickal grip on the imagination. The full list of authors includes: Annie Bellet, Annie Reed, Anthea Sharp, Dayle A. Dermatis, Dean Wesley Smith, Jay Lake, Jeanne C. Stein, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Leah Cutter, Lee Allred, Lisa Silverthorne, Nancy Holder, Seanan McGuire, Stephanie Writt. Read by: Jane Kennedy, Jerimy Colbert, Barton Grover Howe, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith
©2013 WMG Publishing (P)2014 WMG Publishing
Grapevine Springs
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Could the entire history of an Old West mining town be false? Did Grapevine Springs ever really exist? Duster Kendal wants to know the answer to that question. But to get the answer, he must turn for help from two top researchers who must risk everything, including their lives, to find the answer. A gripping new adventure in the Thunder Mountain series.
©2016 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2017 Dean Wesley Smith
How to Save the World
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The second original anthology in the Fiction River line, How to Save the World brings together 11 of today's brightest authors, presenting their answers to solve a pressing problem facing the human race. From the growing energy crisis to women's rights to overpopulation to the survival of humanity in the future, the stories in this anthology examine the issues facing our planet today - and offer hope for our survival tomorrow. Contributing authors include: David Gerrold, William H. Keith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Laura Resnick, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Ron Collins, Travis Heermaan and John Helfers.
©2013 WMG Publishing (P)2013 WMG Publishing
Dead Money
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Poker: a high-stakes, deadly serious professional sport. Doc Hill knows all too well the risks involved. Or so he thinks. But when one of the greatest poker players of all time dies, the stakes rise even higher. Doc must solve an increasingly frightening series of murders - and win the biggest tournament of his career - before he finds himself forced to fold his cards for good. A fast-paced thriller that delves deep into the enticing world of high-stakes poker, Dead Money raises the risk of the political thriller to create an exciting new genre: political poker thriller.
©2013 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2015 Dean Wesley Smith
The Edwards Mansion
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Sherri Edwards wanted only to refurbish an abandoned old mansion that carried her family name. Her goal: to bring the mansion back to its original glory. But the ghost of the original owner kept chasing away all workers. About to give up, two friends suggest she go with them into the past to see the mansion, meet the original owner, and figure out why he killed himself.
©2014, 2015 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2015 Dean Wesley Smith
Fiction River Special Edition
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Fiction River is an original fiction anthology series. Modeled on successful anthology series of the past, from Orbit to Universe to Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, the goal of Fiction River is to provide a forum for "original ground-breaking fiction of all genres". Each Fiction River volume will have electronic and trade paperback issues published by WMG Publishing, and will feature some of the best new and established fiction writers in publishing. Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch are award-winning editors, as well as award-winning writers, and act as series editors for the anthologies. For more information about the authors or Fiction River, go to fictionriver.com. Full author list: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Doug Allyn, Steve Hockensmith, Brendan DuBois, Julie Hyzy, Melissa Yi, Daemon Crowe, Libby Fischer Hellman, Karen Fonville, Karen L. Abrahamson, Kate Wilhelm, M. Elizabeth Castle, Annie Reed, and J.C. Andrijeski.
©2014 WMG Publishing (P)2014 WMG Publishing
Cold Call
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When retired detective Bayard Lott offers to help Julia Rogers search for her lost friend near a remote Idaho lake, they find clues that might lead them directly to the most dangerous serial killer in Las Vegas history. Set in the rugged mountains of Idaho, this twisted mystery pits the Cold Poker Gang against a master criminal.
©2015 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2015 Dean Wesley Smith
Lake Roosevelt
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A time-travel adventure in the popular Thunder Mountain series that promises to change everything about the series.... In a small diner on the Oregon Coast, Kelli Rae meets a handsome man named Jesse Parks. Turns out, she had seen him in a picture taken in an old mining town in Idaho more than 100 years before. And even worse, he had been following her.
©2015 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2015 Dean Wesley Smith
How to Write a Novel in Ten Days
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Even in today's fast-paced world, the myth that writing fast equals writing badly - or, conversely, writing well equals writing slowly - persists. Now, USA Today best-selling author Dean Wesley Smith aims to shatter this myth once and for all with this latest WMG Writer's Guide. In a series of blog posts, Smith chronicled his process toward ghost writing a 70,000-word novel for a traditional publisher in just 10 days. He wrote about his progress, his feelings about the writing, and how he approached and overcame obstacles. This audiobook takes readers on a journey that demonstrates that writing fast, and writing well, comes from motivation and practice. USA Today best-selling author Dean Wesley Smith published more than a hundred novels in 30 years and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He 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 a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. He now writes his own original fiction under just the one name, Dean Wesley Smith. In addition to his upcoming novel releases, his monthly magazine called Smith's Monthly premiered October 1, 2013, filled entirely with his original novels and stories. Dean also worked as an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He now plays a role as an executive editor for the original anthology series Fiction River.
©2014 Dean Wesley Smith (P)2014 Dean Wesley Smith
Fiction River
Summary
We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream. For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch. From a mythical man fulfilling a childhood wish to a fantastic addition to Kristine Kathryn Rusch's best-selling Retrieval Artist series, this volume of Fiction River allows you to travel to 11 different moons without leaving the comfort of home.
©2014 WMG Publishing (P)2014 WMG Publishing
Iron Man: Steel Terror
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Tony Stark - the invincible Iron Man - faces the challenge of his life when he and Earth's mightiest heroes, the Avengers, are faced with the threat of Ultron, the villainous super robot that can never be destroyed! Ultron's hatred for humanity reaches its peak when he creates a doomsday weapon that will wipe out all living creatures across the Earth! When some of his teammates are injured by Ultron's robot warriors, it's up to Iron Man to save the planet before it's too late. Alone and outmatched, Iron Man must fight the robotic madman and his steel henchmen, as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance!
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