Ask what happens when the powerful lust of a teenager gets on a collision course with aliens fighting an ancient Japanese monster.

Go ahead: Ask.

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith bets you don't come up with this answer.

Bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith 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.