While Clines worked as a props master, his writing turned from props to focus on scripts. He worked, among others, on Chairman of the Board (1998), Psycho Beach Party (2000), and Veronica Mars (2004). Īfter a 16-month stint selling men's suits, he moved to San Diego and began working as a props master. As a student, he worked as a local roadie crew for traveling bands. Ĭlines graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1991 with a degree in English Literature. Being taken seriously as a young writer, first by Shooter and then by Marvel's Tom DeFalco, who also sent an encouraging and helpful rejection letter a few years later, encouraged Clines to continue working on his craft. Clines describers it as "a very personal, very polite and professional" rejection letter. At age 11, he received his first professional rejection letter from Jim Shooter, the then editor-in-chief at Marvel. He submitted various comic book scripts to Marvel Comics. As a self-professed "comic geek", Clines created hero characters all through grade school. Clines continued telling stories as a kid, sometimes using Micronauts and Star Wars figurines to create scenes, and other times in writing. While in third grade, he used his handwriting practice paper to pen his first story, Lizard Men From the Center of the Earth. Before becoming a full-time writer, Clines worked as a props master in the film industry for 15 years.Ĭlines was raised in Cape Neddick, Maine, where his love of storytelling was apparent from a very young age.
His short stories can be found in a variety of anthologies, including X-Files: Trust No One, edited by Jonathan Maberry. Peter Clines (), born in Cape Neddick, Maine is an American author and novelist best known for his zombies-vs-superheroes series, Ex-Heroes, and Lovecraftian inspired Threshold novels 14 and The Fold.
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