David Wellington

Background

David Wellington was born on April 23, 1971, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

David Wellington attended Syracuse University. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the Pennsylvania State University. He also earned a Master of Arts degree at Pratt Institute School of Information.

Career

David Wellington started his career in 2003 with the online serialization of Monster Island. Over a period of five months, he published a chapter of the story every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, writing each section moments before it appeared online and responding in real-time to user comments. The resulting manuscript became his first published novel in 2005.

He went on to write two more books in the same universe: Monster Nation and Monster Planet. His other horror series include the Laura Caxton series of vampire novels: 13 Bullets, 99 Coffins, Vampire Zero, 23 Hours, and 32 Fangs; and a werewolf duology comprising Frostbite and Overwinter.

Taking a break from the horror he wrote three fantasy novels under the pseudonym David Chandler: Den of Thieves, A Thief in the Night, and Honor Among Thieves. Under his own name, he wrote the Jim Chapel trilogy of spy thrillers: Chimera, The Hydra Protocol, and The Cyclops Initiative.

He returned to horror in 2015 with Positive, his grand zombie opus. In 2016 he began to publish a science fiction trilogy, The Silence, under the name D. Nolan Clark. Forsaken Skies was followed by Forgotten Worlds and Forbidden Suns to complete this epic journey through the galaxy. He has also worked in comic books and video games and has published dozens of short stories in a wide range of anthologies.

In 2019 his latest book, The Last Astronaut, was published. It's a fast-paced story of the first contact with an alien object that could destroy all life on the Earth.

Achievements

• David Wellington is best known for his Zombie trilogy as well as his Vampire series and Werewolf series. His books have been translated into eleven languages and are a global phenomenon.

Works

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  • The Hydra Protocol

    (To prevent nuclear annihilation, Special Forces operative...)

    2014
  • The Cyclops Initiative

    (To save an innocent friend, soldier and spy Jim Chapel wi...)

    2016
  • Minotaur

    (Someone is smuggling Russian guns into the United States ...)

    2013
  • Myrmidon

    (Wounded Special Forces veteran Jim Chapel now specializes...)

    2013
  • The Last Astronaut

    (A huge alien object has entered the solar system and is n...)

    2019
  • Positive

    (The tattooed plus sign on Finnegan's hand marks him as a ...)

    2015
  • Chimera

    (Afghanistan veteran Jim Chapel has been enlisted in a new...)

    2013
  • Overwinter

    (Overwinter is the second book from the Werewolf series. C...)

    2010
  • Frostbite

    (Frostbite is the first book from the Werewolf series. The...)

    2009

• books

  • Vampire series

    (Vampire series consists of five books: Thirteen Bullets (...)

  • Ancient Blades

    (The ancient Blades series consists of three books: Den of...)

  • The Monster trilogy

    (The Monster trilogy consists of three books: Monster Isla...)

  • The Silence

    (The Silence series consists of three books: Forsaken Skie...)

Views

Clark Ashton Smith, Herbert George Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Larry Niven, and David Brin influenced David Wellington. There were always books in his house. His mother brought home six or eight books from the library every week. She just put them on the coffee table and David could read whatever he wanted. His mother warned him that he shouldn’t read some books - Stephen King and Peter Straub, of course - because they would give him nightmares. That, of course, made him want to read those books even more.

Quotations: "The way I deal with stress - especially about my books - is to write another book."

"When I write a zombie book I always want to try to do something different, something no-one’s done before."

"It turns out that dying in a blaze of glory is surprisingly easy, but living on, after your moment of triumph, is the hardest thing in the world."

"I try never to predict the future. That way I'm never wrong."

Connections

In 2016 David Wellington married a woman named Jennifer.

Wife:

Jennifer