About Me

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Daniel Gedge is a writer, software developer, father and husband. He's been writing for as long as he can remember, but took a break for several years, distracted by the committments of work and family. he returned to writing and started taking it more seriously in 2019.

He grew up the youngest of seven children, moving around to from the Dakotas, to California, and Idaho. At the age of 7, his brothers introduced him to old-school Dungeons & Dragons, which forged his passion for the fantasy genre. It wasn't long after that he started writing his own stories, all of them terrible, but still rad. Much to the chagrin of numerous teachers, his often violent short-fiction was a hit with the boys.🤘

In the early years, Fantasy novels like Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and Weis and Hickman's Dragonlance series, forged his passion. In high school, he demolished Jordan's Wheel of Time and Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series (the first two books at the time, he's been waiting around since the beginning, a fact he'll remind everyone of, whether they want to hear it or not), and branched out into classic golden-age science fiction, like Asimov and Heinlein. Later in life he dived into horror, which he insists is in the midst of a literary golden-age. Currently, among his favorite horror authors are John Langan and Grady Hendrix.

In 2006, he met and married his wonderful wife, Annie. While dating she became one of his early readers to a novel and several short-stories he had written. Though afraid of hurting his feelings, she was pretty honest with her critique. She rules, and they've been together since, building a family of three children. They live in Smyrna, Georgia.

These days, Daniel focuses on work and family, spending spare moments reading and writing. His first story was published in 2024 by Heroic Fantasy Quarterly (issue #62, read here), it's a highly relatable, pulse-pouding, coming-of-age tale of a young shepherd hunting down a wolf possessed by a demon.

Daniel has been awarded semi-finalist in the 2024 Q4 Writers of the Future contest (so close!), and hopes that story will find a home in the near future. He's currently working on short-stories and a novel. He writes in the genres of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.