Stephen Cole (who has also published work under the pseudonyms Tara Samms and Michael Collier) is an author of science fiction and children's novels. He was in charge of merchandising at BBC Enterprises between 1997 and 1999, deciding which stories should be released on video. He was also range editor of BBC Past Doctor Adventures and the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, for which he commissioned Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies.
He is perhaps most famous for his book series Astrosaurs.
He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
Works
Novels
BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
- Longest Day (as Michael Collier)
- The Taint (as Michael Collier)
- Parallel 59 (with Natalie Dallaire)
- The Ancestor Cell (with Peter Anghelides)
- Vanishing Point
- Timeless
- To the Slaughter
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
BBC New Series Adventures
The Darksmith Legacy
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield novels
Short stories
Iris Wildthyme
Doctor Who Files
Audio
Big Finish main range
- The Land of the Dead
- The Apocalypse Element
- The Wormery (with Paul Magrs)
- Fitz's Story
- The Whispering Forest
- Kiss of Death
- Masquerade
Short Trips
- Vigil (as Michael Collier)
Gallifrey
Big Finish Bernice Summerfield series
Big Finish Iris Wildthyme series
BBC New Series Adventures
The Sarah Jane Adventures audio books
Comic strips
Doctor Who: Battles in Time
- Growing Terror
- Hyperstar Rising
- Death Race Five Billion
- The Macrobe Menace
- The Hunt of Doom
- Reunion of Fear
- Wrath of the Warrior
- The Screaming Prison
- Force and Fury
- Warriors' Revenge
- Head Start
- The Millennium Blag
- Second Wave
- Operation Lock-up
- Crime After Crime
- Dusty Death
- Cold Assassin
- Designs of the Dust
- A Suitable Showdown
- Carnage Zoo
- Flight and Fury
- The Living Ghosts
- Extermination of the Daleks
- The House at the End of the World
- The End
Works as Tara Samms
Novels
Telos Doctor Who novellas
Short stories
Short Trips
- Glass (in Short Trips)
- Totem (in More Short Trips)
- Monsters (in Short Trips and Side Steps)
- Distance (in Short Trips: Companions)
- Face-Painter (in Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors)
- Mordieu (in Short Trips: The Muses)
- Separation (in Short Trips: 2040)
- Evergreen (in Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury)
- Angel (in Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins)