21 Facts About Chuck Wendig

Charles David Wendig was born on April 22,1976 and is an American author, comic book writer, screenwriter, and blogger.

Chuck Wendig is best known for his online blog Terribleminds, for his 2015 Star Wars novel trilogy Aftermath, the first book of which debuted at No 4 on The New York Times Best Seller list and No 4 on USA Today best seller list, for which series he created the characters of Gallius Rax and marshal Cobb Vanth, the latter of whom would subsequently appear in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.

Chuck Wendig has additionally written comics for Dark Circle Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Marvel Comics, and VS Comics.

Chuck Wendig was a finalist for the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2013.

Chuck Wendig studied English and religion at Queens University of Charlotte and graduated in 1998.

Chuck Wendig has contributed over two million words to the pen-and-paper roleplaying game industry.

Chuck Wendig has worked as a writer and developer for roleplaying games, contributing to many White Wolf projects from 2002 to 2011, including Hunter: The Vigil.

Chuck 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.

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

Chuck Wendig participated in the Evil Hat Productions Kickstarter, which raised money for a trilogy of novels penned by Chuck Wendig based on the Spirit of the Century RPG game.

Also from Angry Robot, Chuck Wendig released The Blue Blazes in May 2013, the first novel in a new urban fantasy series following Mookie Pearl.

Chuck Wendig announced on his blog in November 2015 that Starz was no longer developing the adaptation.

In October 2015, Chuck Wendig re-released The Blue Blazes, as well as self-publishing a sequel, The Hellsblood Bride, after contract disputes with previous publisher Angry Robot.

Chuck Wendig has stated that a third book, possibly titled A Sky Born Black or The Skyborn Bane might someday be published, should the first two books do well or be picked up by a publisher.

However, Chuck Wendig said the first two books stand alone and a third book is not necessary to conclude the story.

Chuck Wendig ran a successful Kickstarter campaign during February 2012 to publish Bait Dog, a follow-up novel to Shotgun Gravy, raising $6,800, more than twice the goal.

Chuck Wendig was approached by LucasBooks in New York Comic Con later that year, after seeing his tweet and reading his novel Under the Empyrean Sky.

Chuck Wendig was slated to write an unannounced Star Wars book.

Chuck Wendig's firing resulted in the Shadow of Vader story arc being pulled from Marvel Comics' schedule.

Chuck Wendig was chosen in October 2015 as the writer of new Marvel ongoing comic book series Hyperion, based on the version of the character that appeared in Jonathan Hickman's run on Avengers, alongside artist Nik Virella.

Chuck Wendig has run his blog Terribleminds since 2000, where he dispenses regular writing advice.