Dan was born in Philadelphia in 1957 to a mostly blue-collar, hard-working Irish family. His father was the first person on either side of the family to earn a college degree. It took him 9 years, working during the day, going to college at night, using the GI Bill. In the mid-60s, GE hired his dad as an engineer for the Apollo space program. Dan's family packed up and moved to Florida, which is where Dan spent most of his childhood.

During a personal retreat in 1977, Dan experienced a call to pastoral ministry. He began studying and preparing for the next several years. In 1985, he was ordained as a pastor and served in the same church for the next 25 years. In August 2010, after 3 of his novels were published by a major publishing house (Revell – Baker Publishing Group), Dan retired from ministry to write fulltime.

Dan's novels have received popular and critical acclaim, getting rave reviews from USA Today and magazines like Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and RT Book Reviews. His very first, The Unfinished Gift, won 2 ACFW Carol Awards. It's still in print 9 years later and has sold over 70,000 copies. It's available in hardback, paperback, Ebook, audiobook, large-print and in several languages. His other books have won numerous awards and appeared on several national bestseller lists.

In addition to his writing, Dan also enjoys public speaking and is frequently invited to speak at writer's conferences, either as a keynote speaker or teaching workshops and seminars on a variety of writing topics. He has also begun to take on a limited number of clients for fiction coaching.

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