Just Shoot Me Now!: A Poker Boy Story Read online

  About the Author

  Bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith was born and raised in Idaho and knows the trails in the primitive area. All the setting and trails and ghost towns in this story are accurate, and as far as he knows, so are the ghosts.

  Dean has written more than one hundred popular novels and hundreds of published short stories. His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest, also set in this same Idaho valley. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom.

  He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.

  Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

  Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books, and now as the executive editor of Fiction River.

  Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.