When Dan was 5 years old he got autographs from both Darth Vader and Mr. Rogers. He owns more than 350 board games. He has visited sixteen different countries, and lived in three. He was diagnosed with hypochondria as a child, but it’s mostly gone now. He memorizes poetry for fun. He will eat pretty much anything at least once. He col-lects ugly ties. He is terrified of needles, mediocrity, and senile dementia. When he dies, his wife has specific in-structions to play Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” at his funeral.
2016 Workshop
Dan will teach an interactive class about plot and story structure, and it will be AMAZING!
Featured books:
The Devil's Only Friend
by Dan Wells
John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. (adult)
Fragments (Partials #2)
by Dan Wells
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Partials explores the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view. (gr 8-12)
The Hollow City
by Dan Wells
Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That's bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real? Who can you trust if you can't even trust yourself? A mesmerizing journey into madness, where the greatest enemy of all is your own mind. (adult)
I Am Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver #1)
by Dan Wells
John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. (adult)
I Don't Want To Kill You (John Cleaver #3)
by Dan Wells
John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them. But as he wades through his town’s darkest secrets, searching for any sign of who the demon might be, one thing becomes all too clear: in a game of cat and mouse with a supernatural killer, the human is always the mouse.
Mr Monster (John Cleaver #2)
by Dan Wells
In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies.
But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve. But John has tasted death, and the dark nature he used as a weapon---the terrifying persona he calls “Mr. Monster”---might now be using him.
Partials (Partials #1)
by Dan Wells
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Explores the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view. (gr 8-12)
Ruins (Partials #3)
by Dan Wells
There is no avoiding it—the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to save both species and the world with them, but it will only come at great personal cost.