DAN WELLS writes a little bit of everything, but his Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, the first of which is now a major motion picture, are his most well-known works. He co-hosts the educational podcast Writing Excuses, for which he earned a Hugo Award, and now helps operate a yearly week-long writing conference. He has written and produced a stage drama, A Night of Blacker Darkness, and works as a staff writer on the TV show Extinct, in addition to novels, novellas, and short stories. He's lived in the United States, Mexico, and Germany, and now lives in Utah with his wife and six children, as well as 439 boardgames.