Pen Names Edward Taft Dee W. Schofield D.W. Smith Sandy Schofield Kathryn Wesley Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons. 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. Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.
Series
Books
Monumental Summit
2014
Betrayals
2002
Invasion II
Soldiers Of Fear
1996
Klingon
1996
Captain Proton
Defender of the Earth
1999
Island of Power
2000
The Rings of Tautee
1996
The Long Night
1996
Laying the Music to Rest
1989
Lake Roosevelt
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2015
A Hard Rain
2002
In the Shade of the Slowboat Man
2009
All Eve's Hallows
A City Knights Novel
2005
The High Edge
2014
Writing a Novel in Five Days While Traveling
The Tricks and Techniques of Writing Fiction While Away From Home
2017
Heinlein's Rules
Five Simple Business Rules for Writing
2016
Thunder Mountain
2014
By the Book
2002
How to Write Fiction Sales Copy
2015
Iron Man
Steel Terror
2019
The Tenth Planet
Oblivion
2000
Star Trek
Invasion!
1998
Vectors
1999
Final Fantasy
The Spirits Within
2001
Dust and Kisses
2014
Little Green Men
2002
The Escape
1995
Spider-Man
Carnage in New York
1995
How to Write a Novel in Half a Month
A WMG Writer's Guide
2021
Obsessions
An Anthology of Original Fiction
2020
Dead Money
2013
Cold Call
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2015
Writing into the Dark
How to Write a Novel without an Outline
2015
The Tenth Planet
1999
Men in Black
The Grazer Conspiracy
2000
The Belly of the Beast
2000
Final Assault
2000
Writing a Novel in Seven Days
A Hands-On Example
2016
Stages of a Fiction Writer
Know Where You Stand on the Path to Writing
2015
The Magic Bakery
Copyright in the Modern World of Fiction Publishing
2017
The Core
2003
Kill Game
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2014
Shadow
2001
Against Time
2014
How to Write a Novel in Ten Days
2014
Chicks and Balances
2015
The Idanha Hotel
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2016
Freezeout
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2016
Belle Terre
2000
Spider-Man
Emerald Mystery
2000
Echoes
1998
Warm Springs
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2015
The Edwards Mansion
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2015
Think Like a Publisher
2011
The Mist
1998
No Good Deed
2001
Star Trek
2002
Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing
2014
Men in Black
1999
