Daniel J. Quinn

A Little Bit About Me

I grew up in the bowels of Deltona, Florida. This small town, which you’ve likely never heard of, is nestled a snug thirty minutes between the festering metropolis of Orlando (home of such atrocities as Universal Studios and Walt Disney World) and Daytona Beach’s filthy, tourist-infested shores.

Despite the horror that is Deltona’s public schools and the stench of Deltona's 60,000+ inhabitants, I like to call the city home. I moved to Florida when I was about six years old, and was born in Brooklyn, New York. These are my parents.

Evelyn (Mom) and Ana (Grandma)

I live with five little fishes—Cindy, Mindy, Wendy and Sandy. I bought my fish three years ago when they were about two inches long, but today they measure about six. After surviving my care as well as a road trip in a cooler to Massachusetts, I think they can survive anything.

And though the fish came along, my friends did not. We had many adventures in Deltona, most of which were spent battling evil masterminds, mad psionicists, and brain-eating mindflayers on planet Corscova. My hope is that one day, our decade-old role-playing game will come to rest in the covers of a novel, as a story about us, and everything we had imagined.

David DeWitt, Jeffrey Conde, Jenna Fowler

So what else?

Aside from wasting my time on the Internet, I’m addicted to Netflix, I read science fiction novels, and I play RTS games on the PC from time to time. My favorite type of music—trip hop—died out in the late nineties, just as did Dungeons & Dragons, and the rest of the tabletop role-playing game industry. I rank the nineties as my favorite decade since I landed on this planet, as I met the coolest group of gamers on Earth during those years, and learned the very important difference between AC and THACO.