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===Stand Alone Novels=== ===Stand Alone Novels===
* ''A Night of Blacker Darkness'' (2011), written as Frederick Whithers (author) and Cecil G. Bagsworth III (editor) * ''A Night of Blacker Darkness'' (2011), written as Frederick Whithers (author) and Cecil G. Bagsworth III (editor)
* ''The Hollow City'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://sfscope.com/2011/02/moshe-feder-purchases.html |title=Dan Wells sells The Hollow City to Tor Books |author=Strock, Ian Randal |accessdate=10 February 2011 }}</ref> (Forthcoming 2012) * ''The Hollow City'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://sfscope.com/2011/02/moshe-feder-purchases.html |title=Dan Wells sells The Hollow City to Tor Books |author=Strock, Ian Randal |accessdate=10 February 2011 }}</ref> (Forthcoming July 2012)
*''Partials'' <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fearfulsymmetry.net/?p=1298 |title=Dan Wells talks about Partials |author=Dan Wells |accessdate=17 September 2011 }}</ref>(Forthcoming Februrary 2012)


===Short Stories=== ===Short Stories===

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Dan Wells
BornDaniel Andrew Wells
(1977-03-04) March 4, 1977 (age 47)
Utah
OccupationAuthor
NationalityUSA
Genrehorror, young adult
Website
http://www.fearfulsymmetry.net


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

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. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University, with a bachelor degree in English, emphasizing writing and editing.

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.

He also is one of the three authors (including Brandon Sanderson 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." 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."

Bibliography

John Cleaver Books

Stand Alone Novels

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

Short Stories

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

Editorials

References

  1. "Questions and Answers with Dan Wells - Hortorian.com".
  2. ^ "Bio for Dan Wells". Fearful Symmetry. Retrieved 2009-04-28. Cite error: The named reference "fearfulsymmetry" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. "Tor: Winter 2010" (PDF). Macmillan US. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  4. "Book review: I Am Not a Serial Killer, by Dan Wells". Jack Heath. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  5. Strock, Ian Randal. "Dan Wells sells The Hollow City to Tor Books". Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  6. Dan Wells. "Dan Wells talks about Partials". Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  7. ^ "Stories, Listed by Author (2000)". Locus. 2000. Archived from the original on February 24, 2010. Retrieved February 24, 2010.

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