Golden has written many novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen
Star Trek novels, over a dozen for gaming giant Blizzard's
World of Warcraft and
StarCraft novels, and three books for the now finished
Fate of the Jedi series of
Star Wars novels. Her co-authors on that series were
Troy Denning and
Aaron Allston. She launched
TSR's
Ravenloft line of novels in 1991 with her first novel,
Vampire of the Mists, and is the creator of the elven vampire archetype in fantasy fiction. She followed up with
Dance of the Dead and
The Enemy Within. for Blizzard Entertainment and Simon and Schuster Pocketbooks. She also wrote
World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King which was released April 21, 2009. It was Golden's first New York Times bestseller. Subsequent Warcraft novels are
The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm,
Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects,
Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War, and
War Crimes. Under the name
Jadrien Bell she wrote a fantasy thriller entitled
A.D. 999, Golden has also written for
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and
Angel anthologies. She has written novels based on Steven Spielberg's
Invasion America animated television show, and film producer and screenwriter
Harve Bennett was so impressed with her
Invasion America work that he invited her to Hollywood to write for the show - however, the show was not renewed for a second season. Golden has authored four ''
Assassin's Creed works. Her first, "Blackbeard: The Lost Journal", is a companion piece for the video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Another Assassin's Creed'' book, the in-universe "Abstergo Employee Handbook" hit shelves in December 2014. "The Accidental Knight," a novel set in the world of Cryptozoic's online card game, HEX, was published later in 2014 as an online book. Her
Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel titled
Star Wars: Dark Disciple was published in July 2015. And in 2017 she published the official movie
novelization of
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets through Titan Books - . She was the 2017 Winner of the IATMW's
Faust Award. == Personal life ==