Dave Smeds is the author of novels, short fiction, comic book scripts, and screenplays. His writing spans several sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy including sword-and-sorcery, hard sf, contemporary fantasy, superhero, martial arts, horror, and erotica.
His novels include The Sorcery Within, The Schemes of Dragons, Piper in the Night, and X-Men: Law of the Jungle. Over a hundred of his stories have appeared in magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Pulphouse, Penthouse Hot Talk, and anthologies such as Full Spectrum 4, Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible, Return to Avalon, and over a dozen installments of the Sword & Sorceress series. Some of these works have been collected in the volumes Embracing the Starlight and Raiding the Hoard of Enchantment.