Daniel Tyler Gooden
Born in Independence, Missouri in 1975, Gooden was raised, along with his brother and two sisters, out in the country east of Kansas City. He graduated from Baker University in 1998 with a degree in English. In need of some adventure, Daniel moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1999. There he took his first paid writing job as a stringer for the L’Observateur, in St. John Parish. After football season was finished, Daniel was hired to cover all fields of reporting for St. James Parish, located between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Writing stories from human interest to breaking news, Daniel was awarded a Louisiana Press Association Best Feature Award for one of his pieces.
In 2001, Daniel moved back to Missouri with his now wife, Lisa. He took a position as staff writer for Ingram’s Magazine, writing business features until July of 2002, when he moved to part-time to concentrate on writing fiction. Daniel is now a stay-at-home father, caring for his two sons and devoting more time to his writing.
Daniel completed his first novel in January of 2004. His second, The Unmade Man, is available electronically at Amazon.com. He has published multiple short stories and is currently waiting for his first novel to rise out of the dust and edit itself. Writing fantasy and sci-fi stories is most enjoyable for Daniel, and when he is not writing, he enjoys growing trees and tomatoes and often travels to the Ozark Mountains for fishing, hunting and general rabble-rousing.
Daniel gives special thanks to his wife for her most gracious support in his endeavors, and his family and friends for keeping him grounded and entertained. His children deserve special thanks, for allowing him to return home and in-part to become a kid again himself.