page_title: Dan Wells (author)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Dan Wells (author) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dan Wells speaking at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona.
context_page_description: Daniel Andrew Wells is an American horror and science fiction author. He is noted for his John Cleaver series, Mirador series, and New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence. His first published novel I Am Not a Serial Killer became a major motion picture in 2016. He currently co-hosts Writing Excuses, a podcast that answers writing-related questions. He is a Utah native and a graduate of Brigham Young University.
context_section_description: Wells's debut novel, I Am Not a Serial Killer, was published in 2009. It has been printed in English, Spanish, French, German, and Russian. Wells did extensive research to make the series protagonist, John Cleaver, appear genuine. His fascination with serial killer predictors also inspired him to write the novel. In 2016, it was adapted into a film, starring Max Records and Christopher Lloyd. Wells wrote a sequel, Mr. Monster, which was published by Tor Books in 2010. In 2011 his third installment to the John Cleaver series, I Don't Want to Kill You, was published. Wells continued John Cleaver's story with a second trilogy of books, in which the protagonist changes and develops. In 2016, Wells told Deseret News that the fifth book in the series, Over Your Dead Body, was one of the most challenging to write. Some of Wells's novels feature main characters with mental health issues. In Serial Killer, John Cleaver is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, and the protagonist of The Hollow City suffers from schizophrenia.
  Wells expanded into Young Adult Dystopia with his Partials Sequence in 2012.  The series appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list in 2014. He followed up in 2016 with a Young Adult science fiction novel, Bluescreen, set in Los Angeles in the year 2050. He continued this Mirador series with Ones and Zeroes in 2017 and Active Memory in 2018. His most recent release is a series of middle-grade sci-fi audiobooks, Zero G (2018) and Dragon Planet (2019).
  Wells is one of the four authors (including Mary Robinette Kowal, Brandon Sanderson, and Howard Tayler) who regularly host the podcast Writing Excuses. Wells was a writer for the TV show Extinct and wrote his own stage play, "A Night of Blacker Darkness."
caption: Wells at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon
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