
His first novel, I Am Not a Serial Killer, was released in 2009. Ruin is a series that combines The Hunger Games’ thrilling action with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand. In the final installment of the Partials Sequence, the novel tells the story of three men named Kira, Samm, and Marcus who fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans. The novel went on to become a New York Times Best Seller. He began writing video game reviews and has since described himself as a “rabid gamer.”ĭan worked as a corporate writer for NuSkin before becoming a published novelist.ĭan’s novel Ruins was published by Balzer + Bray on March 11, 2014. As a child, he also enjoyed writing scripts, songs, and poetry.ĭan also contributed to BYU’s speculative fiction magazine, Leading Edge. He enjoyed reading and frequented the library.ĭan read classics such as French and Russian literature in addition to sci-fi and fantasy novels.


Where the Wild Things Are was one of his early influences.ĭuring his childhood, Dan was exposed to science fiction and fantasy films such as The Hobbit and Star Wars. Wells wrote his first stories, based on the Choose Your Own Adventure series, when he was in second grade.

Dan finished his first serious novel at the age of 22 while still a college student. He attended Brigham Young University (BYU) after high school, where he studied English and anthropology.ĭan began to take writing more seriously after enrolling in college. The Devil's Only Friend is the first book in a brand-new John Wayne Cleaver trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells.Dan Wells wrote a series of comic books, novellas, and a serial while in high school. When John again faces evil, he'll know what he has to do. John has learned that the hard way his clothes have the stains to prove it. But as the song says, you can't always get what you want. He doesn't want the FBI bossing him around, he doesn't want his only friend imprisoned in a mental ward, and he doesn't want to face the terrifying cannibal who calls himself The Hunter. John doesn't want the life he's stuck with.

and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can. John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. The Devil's Only Friend (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
