''Buffy'' novels have been published since 1998. Originally under the
Pocket Books
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History
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imprint of
Simon & Schuster
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, they are now published by
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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which launched in 2004. Authors who have written original
novel
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s include
Mel Odom,
Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults and teens.
Early life
Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts ...
, and
Nancy Holder
Nancy Holder (born August 29, 1953) is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction ...
.
Chronology
Novelizations
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place throughout the series and are novelizations of various episodes.
490 BCE-CE 1996
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place before the television series begins (from 490 BCE to CE 1996).
''Buffy'' Season 1
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place around ''Buffy'' Season 1 (from spring 1996 until spring 1997).
''Buffy'' Season 2
These tales take place during ''Buffy'' Season 2, (from autumn 1997 until spring 1998).
''Buffy'' Season 3
These tales take place during ''Buffy'' Season 3 (from autumn 1998 until spring 1999).
''Buffy'' Season 4/''Angel'' Season 1
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place during ''Buffy'' Season 4, and ''Angel'' Season 1 (from autumn 1999 until spring 2000).
''Buffy'' Season 5/''Angel'' Season 2
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place during ''Buffy'' Season 5, and ''Angel'' Season 2 (from autumn 2000 until spring 2001).
''Buffy'' Season 6/''Angel'' Season 3
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place around ''Buffy'' Season 6, and ''Angel'' Season 3 (from autumn 2001 until spring 2002).
''Buffy'' Season 7 /''Angel'' Season 4
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place around ''Buffy'' Season 7, and ''Angel'' Season 4 (from autumn 2002 until spring 2003).
''Buffy'' Season 8 /''Angel'' Season 5
These ''Buffyverse'' tales take place after ''Buffy'' Season 7, and after ''Angel'' Season 4.
Canonical issues
''Buffy'' novels are not usually considered part of
''Buffyverse'' canon by fans. However, unlike
fan fiction
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, overviews summarising the basic story of each novel (written early in the writing process) were approved by both Fox and
Joss Whedon
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(or his office), thereby allowing the books to be published as "official ''Buffy/Angel'' merchandise."
Novels by writer
For a list associating ''Buffyverse'' authors with their ''Buffyverse'' novels see
here
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. List of authors who have written ''Buffy'' novels:
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Pierce Askegren
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Kirsten Beyer
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Laura J. Burns
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Denise Ciencin
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Scott Ciencin
Malcolm Scott Ciencin (September 1, 1962 – August 5, 2014) was an American author of adult and children's fiction. He co-authored several books with his wife Denise Ciencin.
Biography
Malcolm Scott Ciencin was born in 1962. He was a New ...
*
Arthur Byron Cover
Arthur Byron Cover (born January 14, 1950, in Grundy, Virginia) is an American science fiction author.
Cover attended the Clarion Writer's SF Workshop in New Orleans in 1971, and made his first professional short-story sale to Harlan Ellison's ...
*
Keith R. A. DeCandido
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Cameron Dokey
Cameron Dokey (born 1956) is an American author. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her three cats and her husband.
Cameron was born in the Central Valley of California. Her father was a teacher of Philosophy, Creative Writing, and Western Lit ...
*
Diana G. Gallagher
Diana G. Gallagher (March 14, 1946 – December 2, 2021) was an American author who wrote books for children and young adults based on television series. She contributed to book series based on ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series), Buffy the Vamp ...
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Craig Shaw Gardner
Craig Shaw Gardner (born July 2, 1949) is an American author, best known for producing fantasy parodies similar to those of Terry Pratchett.
He was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of Her ...
*
Ray Garton
Ray Garton (born December 2, 1962 in Redding, California) is an American author, well known for his work in horror fiction. He has written over sixty books, and, in 2006, he was presented with the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award.
Per ...
*
Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman (born 1967, New Jersey) is an American fantasy author.
Biography
Laura Anne Gilman was born in 1967 in suburban New Jersey. She received a Liberal Arts education from the Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and was ...
*
Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults and teens.
Early life
Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts ...
*
Christie Golden
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Alice Henderson
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Nancy Holder
Nancy Holder (born August 29, 1953) is an American writer and the author of several novels, including numerous tie-in books based on the TV series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. She's also written fiction related to several other science fiction ...
*Robert Joseph Levy
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Ashley McConnell
Ashley McConnell is an American author. Her first novel, ''Unearthed'', was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers of America. In addition to horror, she has published numerous fantasy and media tie-in novels, including sever ...
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Elizabeth Massie
Elizabeth Spilman Massie is an American author. She lives outside Waynesboro, Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner.
Career
Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won the award ...
*
Jeff Mariotte
Jeff Mariotte (born 1955) is an author who lives in Arizona. As well as his own original work, he is best known for writing novels and comic books based on licensed properties.
Biography
Mariotte was born in Park Forest, Illinois, but he moved ...
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Melinda Metz
Melinda Metz (born March 7, 1962) is an American author of young adult books as well as a series for adults. Her series ''Roswell High'', about teenage aliens, serves as the basis of The WB television series '' Roswell'' and The CW television ...
*
Rebecca Moesta
Rebecca Moesta Anderson (born November 17, 1956) is an American writer and the author of several science fiction books.
Early life
Rebecca Moesta Anderson was born in Germany to American parents, and raised in Pasadena, California, where she liv ...
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Yvonne Navarro
Yvonne Navarro (born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American author who has published over twenty novels. Of those twenty, the titles ''AfterAge'', ''deadrush'', ''Final Impact'', ''Red Shadows'', ''DeadTimes'', ''That's Not My Name'' and ''M ...
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Mel Odom
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John Passarella
John "Jack" Passarella is an American author. His work includes a number of novels set in Joss Whedon's Buffyverse.
Bibliography
Buffyverse
Media tie-in novels relating to the fictional universe established by ''Buffy'' and ''Angel'':
* 2000 ...
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Paul Ruditis
Paul Ruditis is an American author.
Early life
Ruditis was born and raised in Philadelphia. He attended West Chester University where he majored in Theatre Arts with a directing emphasis. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles where he began ...
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Josepha Sherman
Josepha Sherman (December 12, 1946 – August 23, 2012) was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel ''The Shining Falcon''.
Works
Series
Buffyverse
*'' Visitors'' (1999) (wit ...
*
Thomas E. Sniegoski
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John Vornholt
John Blair Vornholt (born February 14, 1951) is an American author, screenwriter and journalist.
As an author, he has written numerous media tie-ins, including many ''Star Trek'' novels. As a screenwriter, he worked on several animated children ...
See also
*
''Buffy/Angel'' novels
*
List of ''Buffyverse'' novels
*
List of ''Angel'' novels
*
List of television series made into books
Often a television series becomes so successful and popular or attains such a cult status that the franchise produces books either directly based on it (adapted from the episode scripts) or strongly inspired by it (but describing new adventures of ...
External links
Nika Summer's Buffy LibrarySlayerLit.us
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer
''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' is an American supernatural fiction, supernatural drama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon. It is based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film), 1992 film of the same name, also written by W ...
*Buffy novels
Lists of novels