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Over Three Years…
Finally, Smith’s Monthly is back!!
Yes, I haven’t really been gone for over three years. Just the magazine has.
The date on Issue #44 of Smith’s Monthly is May 2017. The date on this new issue is January 2021. So over three years.
For almost four years before that, I did an issue per month and didn’t miss. One new novel, four or five short stories, and part of a nonfiction book. Or earlier on, a serialized novel.
Every month.
And I enjoyed it.
All those issues are listed in posts below this, one at a time, with contents and cover. (Many of the covers are now older and will be replaced out over time.)
So what slowed me down at first were short stories. I needed to take some time and write a bunch of short stories. And I did that. In fact, right now, I have about fifty unpublished short stories just waiting for me to get back to this. That’s at least ten new issues.
And then some life events hit. Kris got really sick and we ended up moving for her health in 2018. And once that cleared after almost a full year, I found myself in a place I hadn’t been in for thirty years: A brand new writing environment. And to be honest, I floundered, working to set up new systems and new ways of writing that will hold me into the future.
That took another year. But I think I got it now and I am back writing at my old speeds again.
So this magazine was about to come back in April 2020. Oh, oh, we all know what happened then. Covid and this got delayed again.
So the question then became: What to do with Smith’s Monthly dates?
I finally, after a lot of back and forth, just decided to tell everyone what happened and start the issue with January 2021. And I did and it’s now out.
And February issue is already being copyedited and I am about to turn in the March issue for copyediting. So off I go again into the future.
And to be honest, can’t tell you how excited I am.
You can subscribe if you want or just buy any issue on any major online bookstore, all the way back to the first issue.
For those of you who have believed this will be back and have been very kind about waiting, I want to say thank you! It meant a lot to me.
So off into the future.
Short Stories in this volume…
Black Coffee… A Marble Grant Story
Blind Poet
The Portal of Wrong Love… A Poker Boy Story
Cat in Waiting… A Pahket Jones Story
Full Writing Book in this volume
Stages of a Fiction Writer… A WMG Publishing Writer’s Guide
Full Novel in this volume
Head’s Up: A Cold Poker Gang Novel
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Issue #20 Now Out
Smith’s Monthly Issue #20
Issue #20… May 2015
Nearly seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Todaybestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.
In this twentieth volume, the full and complete novel The Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy: Headed West, a western novel, plus five short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and many other features.
Short Stories
Dead Even: A Poker Boy Story
The Wages of the Moment: A Thunder Mountain/Jukebox Story
The Keeper of the Morals
Iron Eyebrows: A Romance with Too Much Hair
Mom’s ParadoxFull Novel
The Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy
Serial Novel
An Easy Shot: A Golf Thriller (Part 3 of 8)
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Issue #10 Is Now Out
Smith’s Monthly Issue #10
Issue #10… July 2014
Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.
In this tenth volume the full and complete novel, Heaven Painted as a Poker Chip, plus four short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.
Table of Contents
Short Stories
“Skiing the Graveyard of Souls”
“Eyes on my Cards” A Doc Hill Story
“Bryant Street”
“Captain Bob: The End of the World as we Know It”
“The Songs of Memory” A Jukebox StoryNovel
Heaven Painted as a Poker Chip A Ghost of a Chance NovelSerial Stories
The Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy
The Adventures of HawkPoetry
Plane Crash Lover
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Issue #5 is Now Out
Smith’s Monthly Issue #5
Issue #5… February 2014
Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.
In this fifth volume the full and complete science fiction novel Sector Justice, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.
Table of Contents
Short Stories
“If Sex is All a Dream, Then Who cleans Up the Mess?”
“That Lost Riddle” A Poker Boy Story
“Stand For Home” A Thunder Mountain Story
“Love with the Proper Napkin”Novel
Sector Justice A Seeders Universe NovelSerial Stories
The Life and Time of Buffalo Jimmy
The Adventure of HawkPoetry
“She Laughed”
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Issue #3 Now Out!
Issue #3
A STORM FROM THE RELIC… A Poker Boy Short Story
I KILLED ADAM CHASER… A Short Story
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BUFFALO JIMMY… Chapters 7-9 of Serial Story
THE CASE OF THE PLEASANT HILLS MURDER…A Cold Poker Gang Short Story
THE ADVENTURES OF HAWK…Chapters 7-9 of Serial Story
OUT OF COFFEE EXPERIENCE… A Short Story
THE FIRST TEE PANIC BOOK…And Other Very Real Golf Stories.
Final third of a nonfiction human golf bookAGAINST TIME… A full novel
(see full descriptions of each below.)
Novel…
Against Time
USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns with a second novel to the world of Dust and Kisses from the first issue of Smith’s Monthly.
Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When she emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival now became her only thought.
Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardas 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 remaining population of the planet.
Together, Callie and Fisher work to discover the secrets of a galaxy that have been hidden in plain sight, even from the powerful humans who had rescued millions. And in the process, they just might change everything.
Short Stories…
A Storm from the Relic
USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith writes about many regular characters, the most popular being Poker Boy.
In this adventure, Poker Boy starts off spending a quiet evening in his favorite casino, playing poker and wining a little money as he waits for his girlfriend, Patty Ledgerwood, to get off work.
Then a man walks in and sits at the table with a lucky charm that would turn out to not be so lucky for all of humanity. Can Poker Boy and his team act quickly enough to stop an ancient war from erupting once again?
I Killed Adam Chaser
USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith writes not only science fiction, but many thrillers and mystery stories.
In “I Killed Adam Chaser” he introduces us for the first time to a very special secret agent. An agent who kills. An agent who prides himself in taking out the garbage of humanity.
The agent likes his job until the day comes along that he meets one of the wives of the garbage he needs to send to the curb. And everything changes, but only in a way Dean Wesley Smith can imagine.
The Case of the Pleasant Hills Murder
USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith mentioned the Cold Poker Gang in his acclaimed thriller Dead Money.
Now he introduces us for the first time to Retired-Detective Lott and the rest of the retired Las Vegas detectives who play poker, solve cold cases, and call themselves the Cold Poker Gang.
They solve cases every week, but this case becomes very personal for Retired-Detective Lott. More so than any cold case he and the Gang ever tackled before. And as with most cold cases, solutions do not come easy. And answers tend not to be what anyone hoped.
Out of Coffee Experience
USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith enjoys playing against the limitations set up by time travel.
In “Out of Coffee Experience,” an artist works in a moment of time to set up a perfect piece of art.
Just hope you are not in his next work of art. But, of course, how would any of us ever know if someone from the future thought of us as nothing more than props?
Serial Stories
The Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy
A Western Serial Adventure
Chapters 7-9USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith returns to his love of the wild west in this ongoing serial story.
In the west in 1866, Jimmy Gray lives the adventure of his life.
His family dead, his only brother sick, he must uphold the family honor and follow one of the most ruthless men to ever ride the trails.
The very man who killed his parents and who holds Jimmy’s future.
Western adventure in a modern new style.
The Adventures of Hawk
An International Serial Adventure
Chapters 7-9USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith takes us on a thrill-ride adventure in some of the world’s most exotic places.
In search of his missing father, Danny Hawk must survive against all odds and a long ways from home.
In 1970, Egypt breeds danger for Hawk and his friends. Hawk’s only hope to find his father rests in staying alive and ahead of the dangerous men chasing him.
Sometimes only a half-step ahead.Nonfiction
The First Tee Panic Book
And Other Completely True Golf StoriesFormer PGA Golf Professional and USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith walks you step-by-step, club-by-club from your car to the first tee and beyond in a laugh-out-loud style that not only teaches, but entertains.
Any golfer recognizes the fears, the patterns, the downright horrors of the first shot of a round. Ever topped that first shot just off the front edge of the tee box? Or worse yet, whiffed it completely?
Come on, admit it. It happened. Remember?
The problems with that first shot don’t start with the swing. Nope, the problems start in the parking lot. And this book will get you flawlessly from the parking lot, through the clubhouse, onto the driving range, over the putting green, and finally successfully off the first tee with a smile.