The Uglies series was optioned in 2006 by Twentieth Century Fox as a possible film series. However, this option 'slowly died', as Scott Westerfeld wrote on his blog. So Yesterday has been optioned to be made into a film by one of the producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. Several of his novels have been optioned for films. In a blogpost in 2006, Westerfeld claimed to have ghostwritten five Goosebumps books, one of which was All-Day Nightmare, one of the entries in the Give Yourself Goosebumps series which came out in February 2000. The graphic novel, released officially in October 2016 as an online syndication prior to the 2017 print release, tells of a photographer who ventures back into her upstate New York hometown abandoned by a mysterious event to take pictures of the occurrences happening there since. In 2017, Westerfeld produced a graphic novel with illustrations by Alex Puvilland titled The Spill Zone. He has also written the Leviathan series, an alternate history trilogy set in World War I consisting of Leviathan, Behemoth and Goliath, plus its illustrated guide The Manual of Aeronautics. So Yesterday is not related to these novels, but is often grouped with them because it is also set in New York City. While The Last Days is not a sequel to Peeps, it follows a group of different characters in the same setting. He has written four YA novels that take place in New York City: Peeps, The Last Days, So Yesterday, and Afterworlds. Westerfeld began his career writing novels for adults, but switched to YA literature with his Midnighters trilogy. Other novels of his include Afterworlds and, for adults, The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds, parts one and two of Succession. Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series, including the spin-off graphic novel series Shay's Story.

In 2001, Westerfeld married Australian author Justine Larbalestier.Īs of 2013, Westerfeld divided his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City. He began composing music as a teenager and composes music for modern dance. Westerfeld graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Philosophy in 1985. He saw his father working with planes, submarines, and the Apollo missions. As a child he moved to Connecticut for his father Lloyd's job as a computer programmer. Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.

The spill zone