This writer aims to please with his eclectic library, offering an assortment of subjects. He taps into pains from his past as well as the current joys in his life, blending them into tales that are both dark and touching. Dan delves into his own life experiences; his factory jobs, his time working on a psychiatric ward, his time in the Navy, all of the places he has lived and people he’s known to make the worlds he creates seem more real. When you read one of his works, you are actually reading a piece of him.