Trivia

Wrote for a number of film magazines including Fangoria, Total Film, SFX, Shivers, Starburst, Planet Movie and others before becoming a screenwriter.

Attended the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. in English) and Indiana University (M.F.A. in Playwriting)

Wrote over 1,000 questions for Fangoria's "Reel Scary Trivia" computer game.

Is writing the horror comic "The Cleaners" for Dark Horse Comics.

Is writing the horror video games "Devil's Night" and "F.E.A.R. 2" for Vivendi Games.

In 2015, Wheaton's adaptation of his novella "Adversary" won a fellowship to the PGA's Power of Diversity Producers Workshop with producer Connie Brammeier.

In 2013, Wheaton's adaptation of his novel "Sunday Billy Sunday" won a fellowship to Film Independent's Directing Lab with Croatian filmmaker Morna Ciraki.

In 2007, Wheaton was selected for a writing residency in Paris by the Franco American Cultural Fund and the Ile de France Film Commission based on his unproduced script, "The Hijab.".

In 2016, Wheaton's debut crime novel, "Fields of Wrath," was released by Amazon Publishing's Mystery/Thriller imprint, Thomas & Mercer and sold over 150,000 copies in its first month of release becoming the #2 bestselling book on all of Amazon for the month of January. He was subsequently contracted to write two sequels, "City of Strangers," coming out in Sept., 2016 and "Wages of Sin," to arrive in early 2017.

In 2019, Wheaton's science fiction novel, "Emily Eternal," made the Financial Times's Best Books of the Summer List.

Is autistic. The main characters of much of his fiction-dogs, priests, artificial consciousnesses, ghosts-are explorations of non-neurotypical experiences.

In 2023, Wheaton's novella, "Who Haunts You," was named the Most Popular Horror Audiobook of the Year by NetGalley/We Are Bookish and named one of the Top 10 YA Books of the Year by the Ginger Nuts of Horror, the UK's largest independent horror website.

Directed the Texas premiere of Clive Barker's play, "The History of the Devil," while a student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997.