Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

With 2025 in the rearview mirror, now seems like a nice time to reflect on what an awesome year for writing it was!

A new year means new writing goals! I'm not a big one for New Year's resolutions, but jotting down writing goals helps make them achievable. If you haven't tried this before, you might want to give it a spin if you have difficulty fulfilling your writerly goals—you never know what might push you over the finish line to put the end on a short story or novel, etc.

Stay updated with the latest fantasy book news on Vol. 4 Update. Discover the journey of The Allison Lee Chronicles' final volume. Fantasy book news awaits!

Having completed and submitted the ghost story, I have turned my attention back to Allison's fourth and final adventure

Inspiration What inspires you? What inspires me? The picture above exudes a sci-fi vibe. In my opinion, at least. It reminds me of  Dune...

A while back I used Dall-E to generate images for my characters from The Allison Lee Chronicles. It was an interesting and somewhat fun expe

The fourth and final volume in The Allison Lee Chronicles is done!!!! Well…more precisely, the rough draft is finished. I have a monumental

The Wrath of Monsters has garnered additional publicity in the past few weeks. This time in well-established literary publications....

Wild times! The last few months have been wild with a number of changes for the fam. The biggest change is we moved to a domicile closer...

Release Day Release day is finally here! That's right, today is June 19, 2024. I've been saying for a long time that I reckoned The Wrath...

That's right! The Wrath of Monsters comes out in one week on June 2019, 2024. This penultimate entry in Allison's saga can be read as a stan

In the latest entry of my book marketing series, I talk about landing my first joint U.S. and international featured deal with BookBub. I...

Today, I'd like to introduce you to Dr. Frederick Radcliffe, a dragon masquerading as a human. Dr. Radcliffe makes his first appearance...

Today, I'd like to introduce you to Jett, a reoccurring character in The Allison Lee Chronicles. Jett is a trickster who first appears in...

Street Team Sign Up Are you an avid reader? Do you love YA fantasy/urban fantasy? Do you enjoy supporting authors by leaving reviews? Are...

2023 Wrap-up 2023 has been an awesome writing year. I feel like I've accomplished quite a bit. On February 1, 2023, for instance, The...

The Wrath of Monsters Last month I turned in my final revisions for The Allison Lee Chronicles Volume 3, The Wrath of Monsters! I'm still...

Volume 3 That's right! The third book in The Allison Lee Chronicles is officially coming soon. Hopefully, sooner than you think! At the...

16,000 words. 16,000. That's how many words I've axed from The Allison Lee Chronicles Volume 3 so far. Honestly, I'm impressed I could...

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