Jim Chapel Missions

“The Jim Chapel Missions” are a series of novels by David Wellington the American horror, fantasy, science fiction, and thriller writer best known for the “Zombie Trilogy” series of novels. The first novel of the series was “Chimera: A Jim Chapel Mission” that was first published in 2013. Over the course of a career spanning more than a decade, Wellington has written more than twenty novels that have been translated into more than ten languages with several becoming global phenomenons. His career began when a friend suggested that he post chapters of his novel every week on his website. It was not long before the serialized stories were so popular that he was approached by Thunder’s Mouth Press to publish his serialized work “Monster Island” in print. Before he became a fully-fledged writer, he got his bachelors from Syracuse University and went to the Pratt Institute from which he graduated with a master in Library Science. Since 2003 he worked for the UN digitizing their records to make them easily accessible on digital platforms. His UN job was a mundane one though he found meeting the aristocrats, ex KGB agents and the most controversial of people that gave him ideas about terrorism and espionage from their own experiences. These would later inspire him to write many of his horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels. He currently lives with Elisabeth his wife and Mary Shelley their dog in New York City.