William C. Dietz grew up in the Seattle area, spent time with the Navy and Marine Corps as a corpsman, graduated from the University of Washington and worked as a surgical technician, college instructor, and news writer. Later he worked for US West in a number of different marketing communications and public relations positions, before leaving to accept a job as Director of Public Relations and Marketing for international telephone company edge2net. Dietz has been a full-time writer since 2002.
Among the works from Dietz is the novel adaptation of the highly rated computer and video game Halo: the book was titled The Flood and released in 2003. He also wrote Mass Effect: Deception, released in 2012.
- Escape from Dagu (Canceled) (2004)
- Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire (1997)
- Dark Forces: Rebel Agent (1998)
- Dark Forces: Jedi Knight (1998)