Dan Kozuh is a comedy writer and author whose work has been featured in such publications as SFweekly, The Los Angeles Daily News, Billboard Magazine and more. Dan has also written over 200 articles for The Hard Times and their nerd culture sister site, Hard Drive. In April 2019, Dan published his first novel: LINGERIA: Book One of One. It’s a comedic fantasy story about an author’s discovery that the fantasy world within his novels is real and all of the characters revere him as their god and creator. As one review put it, "It is Lord of the Rings meets Hitchhikers' Guide.” Another called it “George R.R. Martin New Nightmare's himself”. In this episode, we chat about how Kozuh came to write for The Hard Times and how his writing has touched the lives of his subjects, being christian metal and ska kid, our love of Louie Anderson, and his struggles with mental health.