Marc Daniel

 After spending significant amount of time in Ohio, France and Montana, I currently live in Texas with my wife and two toy Schnauzers.

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When I’m not writing, cooking dinner or playing with my dogs, I enjoy woodworking, going to the theater and escaping the city to reconnect with nature.

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I developed a taste for mystery novels very young and was hooked to the genre by age eleven after reading Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. The Queen of Crime's unparalleled talent for mystery had a strong influence on my desire to write, and this is reflected in my novels, which are first and foremost mysteries.

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My taste for science fiction came a couple of years later after stumbling upon The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon. Simak, Asimov, Van Vogt, Zimmer Bradley, Wells, Bradbury followed in short order. I’d just turned eighteen when I read Frank Herbert’s Dune, my first space opera. I was immediately fascinated by the genre and spent the next few years reading space operas almost exclusively (Herbert, Anderson, Green…). I discovered fantasy much later at age 25 with Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings trilogy. In the years following, my reading started gravitating more and more towards this literary style. Surprisingly enough, it took me another eight years to read my first urban fantasy novel: Patricia Brigg’s Moon Called. I immediately wanted more. Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series partially tamed my thirst, but it could only be quenched by writing my own series. A year later, Shadow Pack was born.