Dan is an award-winning writer/editor of 35 years writing experience and 20 years editing experience, with a year and a half in full-time news and sports journalism. He is a former sports editor and acting news editor for a weekly newspaper, The Mountain Sun, Kerrville, Texas, at the time having membership in The Society of Professional Journalists. Other specific news journalism included freelance stringer for four publications in Texas and Illinois. Dan edited for the newsletter of The Writers' League of Texas. Print publication credits include a creative nonfiction story in the anthology, A Cup of Comfort for Courage and an article in History Magazine. Dan was a finalist in the Adams Media Inspiring True-Story Contest (2001), and a first-place winner in two web-based writing competitions for the best opening words of a novel (2004), and a short work of fiction (2010). The Adams Media finalist entry was later published in A Cup of Comfort for Courage (2004), and has since been sold a