Dan Kemp

There is apparently more than one Dan Kemp on Amazon. I am the one who was NOT the colorist on the Spawn comic books.

Now that admin note is out of the way, allow me to continue.

Once upon a time I was a weird and nerdy kid with a taste for World War II history, JRR Tolkien, and Larry Hama's GI Joe comic books. Then I got into Tom Clancy, Stephen Hunter, Robert Heinlein, and so on. I still have a bit of a book hoarding problem.

To make a long story short, I finally finished up at Ole Miss then walked into a recruiting office and spent several years being much cooler than I am now, while abusing my liver and tearing up my knees. While sitting behind a desk partly crippled, I discovered John Ringo, Tom Kratman, and Larry Correia. Then I started trying to write books instead.

Writing is a combo platter of issues, ask the late Hunter S. Thompson or Anthony Bourdain if you don't believe me, but it's still cheaper than therapy. Authors are supposed to be slightly unhinged, and the all the 'troubled veteran' stereotypes give you so much maneuvering room in a space already filled with oddballs.

Pushed by friends, I was nearing completion on one really good manuscript. Then I ran into a guy on a rifle range at LibertyCon 2022, and we got talking while I loaned him a M1 Garand. It turns out he was a publisher. That sold my first novel. Thanks, John.

That turned into "I need the sequel in a year." Then I did a few short stories while trying to get the next sequel done in a year. I did a couple more short stories, then it was a caffeine-fueled insomnia death march to get Athenaeum 4 done in time.

I will do my best to have the fifth Athenaeum novel done by 2027.

You can find my latest ramblings on Facebook at "Dan Kemp Author" since Amazon has disabled author blogs.

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