Paul Ruditis


Paul Ruditis is an American author.

Early life

Ruditis was born and raised in Philadelphia. He attended West Chester University where he majored in Theatre Arts with a directing emphasis. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles where he began working at Paramount Pictures where he worked as a tour guide and usher. Eventually, he took a position working in the studio's licensing department where he worked his way up to middle management before quitting to focus on writing.

Biography

Ruditis' first publication was in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer short story collection, which was being edited by a friend. Since then he has published tie-in novels and official guides to many hit television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Angel, Queer as Folk, Frasier, The L Word, Star Trek, Roswell, The West Wing, Alias, Prison Break, Bones, The Brady Bunch, The Hardy Boys, The Girls Next Door and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. He also wrote a guide to the film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
He has also published original fiction including the DRAMA! series and the controversial young adult book Rainbow Party.
In 2010, he was hired by Zenecscope Entertainment to be the lead writer on Charmed, a comic series based on the television series of the same name. The comic features an all new storyline set after the series' conclusion and has to date been very popular with the first issue selling out in its first three weeks. For Issues 0-3 Ruditis co-authored the series with Zenescope veteran Raven Gregory but from Issue 4 onwards he penned the comics on his own.

Works

TV series-linked fiction

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • *"The Show Must Go On"
  • Charmed
  • Roswell
  • Alias
  • Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
  • Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Star Trek: Voyager

    Official guides

  • Charmed
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Angel
  • Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
  • Alias
  • The West Wing
  • Bones
  • Prison Break
  • Queer as Folk
  • The Brady Bunch
  • The Hardy Boys
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
  • Star Trek: Voyager

    Comics

  • Charmed Season 9 Comics
  • *Charmed Issue #0 - Sourcebook
  • *Charmed Issue #1 - Charmed Lives
  • *Charmed Issue #2 - No Rest For the Wicca
  • *Charmed Issue #3 - Innocents Lost
  • *Charmed Issue #4 - Mortal Enemies
  • *Charmed Issue #5 - Unnatural Resources
Charmed Volume 1
  • *Charmed Issue #6 - Morality Bites Back
  • *Charmed Issue #7 - The Heir Up There
  • *Charmed Issue #8 - Oh, Henry
  • *Charmed Issue #9 - Desperately Seeking Piper
  • *Charmed Issue #10 - Three Little Wiccans

    Other fiction

  • Rainbow Party is a controversial novel aimed at the teen market about teens and oral sex.
  • DRAMA! The Four Dorothys is the first in the DRAMA! series
  • DRAMA! Everyone's a Critic is the second in the DRAMA! series
  • DRAMA! Show, Don't Tell is the third in the DRAMA! series
  • DRAMA! Entrances and Exits is the fourth in the DRAMA! series