Chuck Wendig

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Charles David Wendig (born April 22, 1976) 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.

He has written comics for Dark Circle Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Marvel Comics, and VS Comics. He was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2013.

Early life

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.

Personal life

As of 2021, Chuck Wendig lives in Pennsylvania with his family and writes for his blog terribleminds.com.

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Career

Wendig worked as a freelance RPG writer for more than a decade before writing fiction professionally. Wendig has contributed over two million words to the pen-and-paper roleplaying game market. He has worked as a writer and programmer for roleplaying games, including Hunter: The Vigil (2008).

Wendig is a member of the steering board of Storium, a Protagonist Labs-powered online storytelling game that launched a successful Kickstarter campaign and raised over $2,000.

Lance Weiler co-wrote the Emmy-nominated interactive transmedia project Collapsus.

Wendig was selected for the 2010 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab in conjunction with writer Weiler's Lab for their feature film HiM. Ted Hope, Christine Vachon, and Anne Carey are assisting in the production of HiM. For the 2011 Sundance Short Film Program, his short film, Pandemic 41.410806, 75.654259, was co-written and directed by Weiler. Wendig and Weiler were both producing television pilots for TNT with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, but the network decided against it at one point.

He was also involved in David Cronenberg's transmedia project Body/Mind/Change, in which Weiler served as Creative Director.

Irregular Creatures, Wendig's first short story collection, was released in January 2011.

Double Dead, Wendig's debut book that was published by Abaddon Books as part of its shared-world story Tomes of the Dead, was published in November 2011. In May 2012, Bad Blood, a sequel novella, was published. The books were reprinted as The Complete Double Dead, which appeared in February 2016.

Wendig was involved in the Evil Hat Productions Kickstarter, which raised funds for a trilogy of books based on the Spirit of the Century RPG game. After a fruitful campaign, he went on to launch Dinocalypse Now in 2012 and Beyond Dinocalypse in 2013. Despite being scheduled to write the third (and final) volume of the Dinocalypse trilogy, Wendig's Bookworms was unable to finish the book due to other commitments and was replaced by novelist Carrie Harris.

He also wrote Unclean Spirits for Abaddon, the first installment of the Gods and Monsters story.

Blackbirds, Wendig's first book, features a girl who can see the death of anyone she meets. Angry Robot Books first published it in April 2012. In August 2012, a sequel, Mockingbird, was released. Wendig also published The Blue Blazes in May 2013, the first book in a new urban fantasy story following Mookie Pearl. In December 2013, The Cormorant, the third book in the Miriam Black series, was released.

The Miriam Black books were chosen as a television series by Starz in 2014, with writer and producer John Shiban, author of Breaking Bad and The X-Files, as the author, with a writers' room already set up. Starz's adaptation was no longer being produced, according to Wendig, who revealed it on his blog in November 2015.

Saga Press purchased six books in Wendig's Miriam Black series in October 2014, including the first three books that had never been published by Angry Robot Books. In 2015, the first three books, Blackbirds, Mockingbird, and The Cormorant were re-published with new covers. Thunderbird was released in 2018, and Vultures, books five and six, followed in 2017.

After labour ties with previous publisher Angry Robot, Wendig re-released The Blue Blazes, as well as self-publishing a sequel, The Hellsblood Bride. If the first two books sell well or be picked up by a publisher, he has speculated that a new book, likely named A Sky Born Black or The Skyborn Bane, could be published someday. However, Wendig said that the first two books stand alone, and that a third book is not required to finish the tale.

"Veronica Mars on Adderall," Wendig's "Because" a young adult novella based on Atlanta Burns, was self-published by Wendig in 2011. During February 2012, Wendig launched Bait Dog, a follow-up to Shotgun Gravy's debut, raising $6,800, more than double the target. Bait Dog was self-published in 2012 and was later purchased by Amazon Skyscape alongside Shotgun Gravy, and then rebranded as Atlanta Burns in January 2015. In February 2016, Atlanta Burns' second book in the Atlanta Burns series, The Hunt, was published.

Wendig's latest young adult dystopian "cornpunk" trilogy debuted in July 2013, beginning with Under the Empyrean Sky. In July 2014, it was followed by a sequel called Blightborn. With The Harvest, the Heartland trilogy came to an end in July 2015.

Wendig was revealed in March 2015 that it would write the epic Journey to Star Wars: Aftermath, a Wendig branded Journey to Star Wars: Aftermath, which will be published in September 2015. The book was the first in a series of new canonical Star Wars novels published by Del Rey, filling the void between Return of the Jedi and the upcoming Star Wars film The Force Awakens. Aftermath: Life Debt (2016) and Aftermath: Empire's End (2017) were both followed by Aftermath: Life Debt (2016) and Aftermath: Aftermath: Aftermath: The End (2017). Wendig's involvement with the novels came after she asked to write a Star Wars licensed book on Twitter on September 4, 2014. After seeing his tweet and reading his book Under the Empyan Sky, LucasBooks approached him in New York Comic Con later this year. Aftermath was announced a year later on September 4, 2015, on September 4, 2015, it debuted at No. 1. Both the New York Times Best Seller list and USA Today's top seller list are on page 4 of both the New York Times Best Seller list and the USA Today's best seller list. The inclusion of a gay man as a lead role in the aftermath was controversial.

Wendig revealed that he would be writing a five-issue story arc with Marvel Comics starting in October 2018. Darth Vader's legacy would have been chronicled on the galaxy. Wendig was also planned to write an unannounced Star Wars book. Marvel had fired Wendig for unknown reasons on October 12, according to the website. The dismissal was reportedly caused by Wendig's social media messages, it was believed. He was fired, resulting in the Shadow of Vader's story arc being pulled from Marvel Comics' line.

Zer0es, a HarperVoyager cyber-thriller, was released in August 2015. Invasive, a novel set in the same universe as Zer0es, was published in 2016.

Archie Comics revealed a new comic book by Wendig and Adam Christopher in 2015, which included a new version of their superhero The Shield.

Wendig was selected in October 2015 as the author of a new Marvel ongoing comic book series Hyperion, based on Jonathan Hickman's appearance in Avengers's Captain Jonathan Hickman's Marvel Universe story line Hyperion. Artist Nik Virella joined us.

Marvel Comics unveiled a five-issue comic book version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, written by Wendig and illustrated by Luke Ross, which debuted in June 2016.

Wendig has been running his blog Terribleminds since 2000, where he disdispenses regular writing advice. The bulk of his writing advice has been obtained in his self-published e-books or his book The Kickass Writer, which was released in 2013 by Writer's Digest Books.

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