Christopher Santos

Christopher Santos earned his BS in Film from Emerson College, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, where he won the 1989 Laurel Entertainment Screenwriting Award.

In New York, he worked in the field of feature film development for fifteen years as a script reader, story editor, creative consultant and development executive. Among his freelance clients were 20th Century Fox, Largo Entertainment, Hallmark, Focus Features and Miramax. For five of those years he worked exclusively for Dustin Hoffman's Punch Productions, where he was Vice-President of Development. He also conducted a course in professional film script analysis at NYU for several years.

In 2000, he wrote an online serial called Wish You Were Here about the romantic misadventures of two travel writers. It eventually became his first book for Plume, where it was renamed Wanderlust and published under his pen name, Chris Dyer. His experience in the movie business provided the background for his second Plume title, The Loves of a D-Girl, which was published in 2005. He wrote an episode for the first season of The United States of Tara in 2008, and developed an original pilot for Showtime in 2010.

Christopher Santos currently lives in San Francisco, where he is working on a new novel, which focuses on a generation of men who survived the Age of AIDS, as well as a comic screenplay which explores the intersection of entertainment, business, and religion in contemporary America.