Chuck Wendig
| Chuck Wendig | |
|---|---|
| Born | New Hope, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Author, screenwriter, blogger |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Queens University of Charlotte |
| Genre |
Urban fantasy Science fiction Comic books |
| Notable works |
Aftermath Blackbirds Zer0es |
| Website | |
| terribleminds |
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Chuck Wendig is an American author, comic book writer, screenwriter, and blogger. He is best known for his popular online blog Terribleminds, and for his 2015 Star Wars novel Aftermath, which debuted at #4 on The New York Times Best Seller list and #4 on USA Today's best seller list. As of early 2016, Wendig writes Hyperion for Marvel and The Shield for Dark Circle Comics.
He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2013.
Wendig grew up in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He studied English and religion at Queens University of Charlotte and graduated in 1998. After working various odd jobs and publishing early works under the name C.D. Wendig and C. David Wendig, he became a full-time freelance author writing under the name Chuck Wendig.
Before writing fiction professionally, Wendig worked as a freelance RPG writer for over a decade. Wendig has contributed over two million words to the pen-and-paper roleplaying game industry. He has worked as a writer and developer for roleplaying games, contributing to many White Wolf projects from 2002 to 2011, including Hunter: The Vigil (2008). He has also contributed numerous essays to The Escapist.
Wendig is part of the advisory board of Storium, an online storytelling game by Protagonist Labs that launched a successful Kickstarter campaign and raised over $250,000.
Wendig co-wrote the Emmy-nominated interactive transmedia project Collapsus with Lance Weiler.
Along with writing partner Weiler, Wendig was selected for the 2010 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab for their feature film HiM.HiM is being produced by Ted Hope, Christine Vachon, and Anne Carey. His short film, Pandemic 41.410806, -75.654259, co-written and directed by Weiler, was selected for the 2011 Sundance Short Film Program. At one point, Wendig and Weiler were also developing television pilot for TNT with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, but the network decided to pass.
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