Books

Some of my friends who are pretty much exclusively TV writers are quite impressed with the fact that I've written novels. I sometimes wish I could be satisfied by just writing television (creatively satisfied, I mean; the financial satisfaction I get from books is a drop in the bucket compared to television). Making a living writing TV is a full-time job and more; add to it the pressure of turning in a book on time and you're asking for a full-bore neural meltdown.

But I can't help it. I get a lot of creative satisfaction from writing TV, but it's so collaborative. The great thing about a book is that, for better or worse, it's your own vision. (Even a book collaboration, of which I've done several, is nothing like the mass authorship of a TV or movie script.) John Sayles once said something to the effect that no one ever told him he couldn't write a chapter in a book because they were having union trouble or because they were losing the light for the shot. Amen. Writing novels is a totally different creative rush from writing films or TV.

Novels

• Star Wars: Coruscant Nights III -- Patterns Of Force, Del Rey Books (mass market paperback) forthcoming in 2008.
• Star Wars: Coruscant Nights II -- Street of Shadows, Del Rey Books (mass market paperback) forthcoming in 2008.
• Star Wars: Coruscant Nights I -- Jedi Twilight, Del Rey Books (mass market paperback) forthcoming in 2008.
• Interworld (with Neil Gaiman), Harper Collins (hardcover), 2007. (New York Times bestseller).
• Star Wars: Death Star (with Steve Perry), Del Rey Books (hardcover), 2007. (New York Times bestseller).
• Batman: Fear Itself (with Steven-Elliot Altman), Del Rey Books (mass market paperback), 2007.
• Mr. Twilight (Book II of The Trine) (with Maya Bohnhoff), Del Rey Books (mass market paperback).
• Star Wars: Medstar II -- Jedi Healer (with Steve Perry), Del Rey Books (mass market paperback), 2004.
• Star Wars: Medstar I -- Battle Surgeons (with Steve Perry), Del Rey Books (mass market paperback), 2004.
• Hell On Earth (Book I of The Trine), Del Rey Books (hardcover), 2001.
• Star Wars: Darth Maul -- Shadow Hunter, Del Rey Books (hardcover), 2001. (New York Times bestseller). Mass market paperback edition, 2002. Foreign editions include Germany, Japan, Korea, Denmark, Poland, U.K., etc.
• Thong the Barbarian Meets the Cycle Sluts Of Saturn (with Steve Perry), Donald Ahlquist Publications, (hardcover and signed leatherbound), 1998.
• Voodoo Child, Tor Books (hardcover), 1998 (two printings); mass market paperback edition, 1999.
• Night Hunter, Tor Books (hardcover), 1995; mass market paperback edition, 1997.
• Street Magic, Tor Books (hardcover), 1991; mass market paperback edition, 1992.
• The Omega Cage (with Steve Perry), Ace Books (mass market paperback), 1988.
• The Burning Realm, Baen Books (mass market paperback), 1988; British edition: Orbit Books (mass market paperback), 1988.
• Dome (with Steve Perry), Berkeley Books (mass market paperback), 1987; British edition: Gollancz Books (mass market paperback), 1988.
• Hellstar (with Steve Perry), Berkeley Books (mass market paperback), 1984.
• The Shattered World, Timescape Books (trade paperback), 1984; Science Fiction Book Club edition (hardcover), 1984; (mass market paperback) edition: Baen Books, 1985; German edition: Heyne Books (mass market paperback), 1986; British edition: Orbit Books (mass market paperback), 1987.
• Darkworld Detective, Bantam Books (mass market paperback), 1981; German edition: Heyne Books (mass market paperback), 1984; reissued by Babbage Press (trade paperback), forthcoming in 2006.
  (A sequel, The Black Hole Of Carcosa, was written by John Shirley and published as a mass-market paperback by Pocket Books in 1988.)
• Dragonworld (with Byron Preiss, illustrated by Joseph Zucker); Bantam Books (trade paperback), 1979 (two printings); Literary Guild edition (hardcover), 1979; Literary Guild signed limited edition (hardcover), 1979; Science Fiction Book Club edition (hardcover), 1979; Excerpted in Heavy Metal Magazine: August 1979; mass market paperback edition, 1983 (five printings); Foreign editions include Germany, Spain, Japan, etc.; reissued by ibooks (trade paperback), 2000; Microsoft Reader (e-book), 2001; ibooks mass market paperback edition, 2002.

Young Adult

• Sword of the Samurai (with Steve Perry), Bantam Books (mass market paperback), 1984; foreign editons include Japan, Spain, Denmark, Germany, etc.
• I, Alien, Ace Books (mass market paperback), 1978.

Short Story Collection

• The Night People, Babbage Press (trade paperback), 2005.

Anthology

• Shadows Over Baker Street, (co-edited with John Pelan), Del Rey Books (hardcover), 2003; (trade paperback), 2005; German edition forthcoming (2006).