Dan Wells (author)

Dan Wells (author)
Dan Wells
Born Daniel Andrew Wells
March 4, 1977 (1977-03-04) (age 34)
Utah
Occupation Author
Nationality USA
Genres horror, young adult

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Dan Wells (born March 4, 1977) is an American horror fiction author. A Utah native, he currently resides in Orem, Utah.

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Early life

Wells wrote his first novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, when he was in second grade. He followed up with several novellas, a serial and a series of comic books when he was in high school. He finished his first serious novel when he was 22.[1] He is a graduate of Brigham Young University, with a bachelor degree in English, emphasizing writing and editing.[2]

Career

Wells is best known as the author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, a horror novel published in the United States by Tor Books. It has been released in the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, and will soon be published in Taiwan.[2]

He also is one of the four authors (including Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal and Howard Tayler) that contribute to the podcast Writing Excuses.

Critical reception

Horror writer F. Paul Wilson described I Am Not a Serial Killer as a "dazzling, unputdownable debut" with a protagonist "as chilling as he is endearing."[3] YA author Jack Heath praised it as having "plenty of thematic merit" in a review on his website. "All the characters are richly identifiable, including – and I can't stress enough how impressed I was by this – the serial killer," Heath said. "Wells is a first-time novelist, and yet he's already created a sympathetic villain, the holy grail of thriller writing."[4]

In 2011, Wells was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[5]

Bibliography

John Cleaver books

  • I Am Not a Serial Killer (2009)
  • Mr. Monster (2010)
  • I Don't Want To Kill You (2011)

Stand-alone novels

  • A Night of Blacker Darkness (2011), written as Frederick Whithers (author) and Cecil G. Bagsworth III (editor)
  • The Hollow City [6] (Forthcoming July 2012)
  • Partials [7](Forthcoming February 2012)

Short stories

  • "The Amazing Adventures of George" (2000) in Leading Edge #40[8]
  • "The Mountain of the Lord" (forthcoming, 2011) in Monsters and Mormons (Peculiar Pages)

Editorials

References

External links


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