
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

Star Rain
2016

Monumental Summit
2014

X-Men
The Jewels of Cyttorak
1997

Betrayals
2002

Encounters With The Unknown
2020

Star Fall
2016

A Matter for a Future Year
A Seeders Universe Story
2016

Invasion II
Soldiers Of Fear
1996

Klingon
1996

Captain Proton
Defender of the Earth
1999

Island of Power
2000

Half a Clue
A Cold Poker Gang Short Story
2021

The War of Poker
A Poker Boy story
2011

They're Back
2016

The Problem of Grapevine Springs
A Thunder Mountain Story
2016

The Rings of Tautee
1996

Living Time
A Poker Boy story
2011

The Long Night
1996

Laying the Music to Rest
1989

Lake Roosevelt
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2015

The Library of Atlantis
A Poker Boy Story
2015

Morning Song
2014

Sector Justice
A Seeders Universe Novel
2014

A Hard Rain
2002

Shootout in the Okey-Doke Casino
A Poker Boy story
2011

In the Shade of the Slowboat Man
2009

Heads Up
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2019

Remember Me to Your Children
2025

All Eve's Hallows
A City Knights Novel
2005

Dreaming Large
A Seeders Universe Story
2016

The Slots of Saturn
A Poker Boy Novel
2014

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

Not Saleable for Sale
A Poker Boy story
2011

Last Car for This Time
2011

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

Gambling Hell
A Poker Boy story
2013

Starburst
A Seeders Universe Novel
2017

Little Green Men
2002

The Escape
1995

Spider-Man
Carnage in New York
1995

Calling Dead
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2015

How to Write a Novel in Half a Month
A WMG Writer's Guide
2021

Obsessions
An Anthology of Original Fiction
2020

A Bad Patch of Humanity
2016

Bad Beat
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2016

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

Just Shoot Me Now!
A Poker Boy Story
2011

Ace High
2017

The Taft Ranch
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2016

Writing a Novel in Seven Days
A Hands-On Example
2016

Prophet's Power
1998

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

Rescue Two
A Seeders Universe Short Novel
2021

Recycled Pulp
2015

The Core
2003

Ring Game
2020

For the Balance of a Heart
2012

Under the Skin of Death
A Cold Poker Gang Short Story
2021

Kill Game
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2014

Shadow
2001

Bottom Pair
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2021

Pink Shoes and Hot Chocolate
A Poker Boy story
2011

Nonexistent No More
A Poker Boy story
2011

The Rude Improbable Presumptive
2025

Whodunnit
2003

That Lost Riddle
2025

Against Time
2014

The Road Back
A Doc Hill Story
2013

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

Burn Card
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2017

Grapevine Springs
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2016

Belle Terre
2000

Spider-Man
Emerald Mystery
2000

X-Men
A Novelization
2000

Echoes
1998

Gods Aren’t Funny
2016

Encounters with the Unknown
2001

Warm Springs
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2015

The Edwards Mansion
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2015

A Billion Earths
2020

The Smoke That Doesn't Bark
A Poker Boy Story
2011

Avalanche Creek
A Thunder Mountain Novel
2014

Think Like a Publisher
2011

The Mist
1998

Dead Hand
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery
2016

No Good Deed
2001

Star Mist
2016

Goblins Revenge
1996

A Gift from the Centuries
A Seeders Universe Story
2022

Star Trek
2002

The Atlantis Fifty
2014

The Remarkable Way She Died
A Cold Poker Gang Short Story
2021

Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing
2014

Men in Black
1999

Lady and the Seeders
2025