Draft:Peter J. Wacks

Peter J. Wacks (born 1976 ) is an American author, actor and game developer.

Some of his works include the game Cyberpunk 2020 CCG, the co-autorsip of the Bram Stoker Award finalist graphic novel Behind These Eyes, and the co-autorsip of the alternate fantasy history Caller of Lightning.

Career
In 2003, Wacks acquired a game spin-off license from R. Talsorian Games for the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game, and created Cyberpunk: The Collectible Card Game. Wacks is the president of Social Games which published the Cyberpunk CCG.

Wacks then turned his hand to TV, film and franchise writing, working first on Alias, and also doing some work for Veronica Mars, G.I. Joe, Heroes,  and the Predator franchise. Wacks took part in the initial launch of the Kindle Worlds platform.

Wacks also founded FairyPunk Studios, a creative cooperative that aimed to create fairytales set in the steampunk genre.

His first work of fiction was "Cat's Paw" in the 2011 anthology Of Fur and Fire: Tales of Cats & Dragons. In 2012, Wacks co-authored the graphic novel Behind These Eyes with Guy Anthony De Marco. In 2014, he wrote his first novel, Second Paradigm, a science fiction time travel story. In an interview, he called this the one of which he is the most proud.

He also co-wrote a cyberpunk novel based on the Interface Zero 2.0 game world with Guy Anthony De Marco and Josh Vogt called Solar Singularity, which was selected as a finalist for the juried International Association of Media Tie-in Writers annual Scribe award for 2018.

Wacks and De Marco had also previously worked as writers on the core rule book for Interface Zero 2.0: Full Metal Cyberpunk an RPG game which was itself a finalist for the 2015 ENnie Award in the original interior art category.

He followed this several others, including with Bloodletting, co-authored with Mark Ryan; The Dandy Boys Mysteries, a steampunk adventure; and Caller of Lightning, an alternate fantasy history novel co-authored with Eytan Kollin.

Reception
At the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards, Behind These Eyes was a finalist in the category Best Graphic Novel of 2012.

Catherine Russell, writing for Functional Nerds, was not impressed by Wacks' short story "Space Opera", which appeared in the science fiction anthology Raygun Chronicles – Space Opera for a New Age. Russell wrote, "Peter J. Wacks' Space Opera managed to both confuse and bore me throughout the entire tale. As a literal take on the term, the descriptions were well done but otherwise did not hold my interest."