About

After graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1976, Dan went to work for Congressman Pete Mcloscky in Washington DC. He left Pete’s office in 1977 to ostensibly go write The Great American novel about the research he'd done about the life and work of Nikola Tesla. Daniel returned to California and spent some years working with Hollywood producers to bring the book into print and screen. But like a lot of young writers, it turned out to be the big fish that got away. Dan then moved to New Mexico in 1983 to take the Masters Program in the Greek Classics at St John’s. After that, Dan found a little ranch in Chimayo that allowed him to live in a village where he was exposed to the traditional ways of the Chicano people. At the same time, Dan became involved in progressive philanthropy whose modus operandi was to fund community organizers working in various projects around the region, from immigrant rights to native sovereignty, labor rights, and environmental justice. 

His exposure to the various traditional and indigenous cultures gave him the idea of how to apply his Master’s Degree to Celtic Studies.  In his novel, Young Merlin, for instance, Dan has developed a cultural line that proposes that Greco-Roman culture and Celtic culture interacted in the Fifth Century A.D. 

After 30 years in the charitable foundation business, while continuing to do research on Young Merlin, Journey to Egypt, and the Lost Tribe of Aztlan, which is set in New Mexico, Dan endeavored to write it all down starting in 2005. 

Because the books culturally relate to each other, Dan decided that rather than trying to publish one at a time, he wanted to finish them en todo to see how the books communicate culturally with each other. 

Therefore, he has decided to present his initial work to the public, family, and friends for the first time.