Useful & fun stuff!

Welcome! This site has three main sections:

1. nonfiction/financial,

2. adventure/humor fiction. Buy Best Seller Ancient of Genes NOW! Get Dan’s fiction & nonfiction: a) Buy ANY of Dan’s work at a physical (please consider independent stores)! Buy NOW! Click here for a wide choice in where to purchase Ancient of Genes in any of its four editions, also search online & physical stores for Dan’s other works!

3. Dan’s bio (near this page’s bottom). Click here, though, to learn about Dan’s writing style. 

$ecret$Dan's cinematic & literary work (fiction & nonfiction) is represented by The William Pettit Agency (WPA)Please click here for two timely TV series currently offered and to make rights inquiries to WPA.

Above left is the poster for $ecret$, TV-series proposal. It could be thought of as a dramatic and fictionalized version of my financial planning nonfiction, but it's oh so much more!
9/14/2021: The TV series pilot screenplays for Ancient of Genes and ALSO $ecret$ are finalists in The Page Turner Awards, plus AOG

7/7/2022: Ancient of Genes earns the 2022 CMA Book Award in 2 categories!

10/04/2021 Ancient of Genes scores bestseller in multiple Amazon categories!
First Prize 2022 Readers’ Favorite Awards, Sci-Fi.

09/01/2022: Ancient of Genes wins 5-star rating & 1st place in the prestigious Readers’ Favorite Awards, endorsed by all major US, British, & Canadian publishers as authoritative & unbiased. Per RF, several hundred competed in its Sci-Fi category.

Also: AOG is available as an “Audio Theater” edition! That means AOG’s famous & actual human reader delivers 25+ distinct character voices giving you clear understanding & a more realistic experience than “ordinary” audiobooks. It also means there are exciting sound effects & theatrical music that don’t “walk over” voices! Although AOG’s four editions are available at almost all physical & online booksellers worldwide, Amazon selected Ancient of Genes for special edition technology enhancements & pricing: Amazon’s special eBook has 150+ “X-ray” words/phrases with extra detail & referred websites (tap or hover), PLUS the eBook & Audio Theater editions sync to open where you left off in the other!

FREE financial resources: Owners of The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning may click here for free financial articles, spreadsheets, etc. If you use the first italicized word in Chapter Three as a password (case sensitive but no need to italicize it) you will gain access.

 

Looking for Adventure Fiction or free humor? Use the menu, but also try the fun newsletter (form in margin). If you’re already signed up, click here for the free stories/humor page (password: in welcome notice; please contact Dan if you lost it).

Let others have fun at the free stories/humor page: Link your site to AuthorDan.com & tell friends via social media. Well, get oriented on this page, then enjoy short videos, excerpts and explore!


Click to experience these & other Adventures & nonfiction: Click here to get Dan’s fiction & nonfiction online or in-store!

Get THE AUDIO THEATER EDITION FREE! USA citizens & residents click here, or here for United Kingdom folks!

1. Nonfiction

Enjoy excerpts from The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning (SSFP), which is a gift that proves you DO care for your friends & loved-ones. It’s from Skyhorse Publishing, NY, so you can trust its authoritative tips.  This site also has a free expert blogYou might like to sample Dan’s Dramatic Nonfiction & Essays, past financial articles and Real Estate & Business Brokerage articles.

Enjoy two free financial alerts in a video introducing SSFP.

Professionals:  Get copies for reference and as client gifts.

Consumers:  Get copies for yourselves & loved ones! SSFP can help new-savers through those long-retired.

Please sign up for emailed “AuthorDan” visual, audio and reading treats plus the privilege to influence new works! Be kind to Dan and your friends: Create links on your website and share on social media. Your acts of goodwill can enable others to learn of & enjoy Ancient of Genes, AOG’s spin-off short stories (many are free; many more with newsletter sign-up), AOG’s soon-released sequel Ancient to Light (ATL).

ATL is book 2 in the Ancient Beacon series. ATL has a rare but thrilling structure: six mysteriously connected short story pairs, the first set in ancient times & the second in the near future; these pairs act like chapters.

And here’s a not-to-be-missed nonfiction: Dan’s genuinely expert nonfiction The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning (SSFP). Click here to learn what makes SSFP authoritative and bias-free, and why it earned rave reviews from readers & professional reviewers just like Dan’s fiction!

2. Fiction

Check this exciting 3-minute video-trailer on my Adventure Fiction, or page down to sample some! Click here to learn more about Dan’s writing style.

Ancient of Genes – Amazon Best Seller

Ancient of Genes (AOG) is now vastly improved from a well-received previous version. Check the Press Release. Enjoy also my Yeti tale, a short story adaptation of AOG’s Chapter Four. Click here for the Fiction page and use links to my short fiction & humor.

Get THE AUDIO THEATER EDITION FREE! USA citizens & residents click here, or here for United Kingdom folks!

Click here to buy any of 4 editions of Ancient of Genes (or look up ANY of Dan’s work): eBook, paper & hardcover, & Audio Theater!

Other anthologies are linked from my fiction page. Enjoy multi-author magazines and anthologies like Tuscany Bay’s Planetary Anthology series (2020), Millhaven’s Tales of Adventure (2019), Millhaven’s Fierce Tales: Lost Worlds (2019) and Superversive’s Planetary Anthology: Earth (2018, now owned by Tuscany Bay).

 

 

 




Click here for excerpts and two multi-voice dramatic readings in audio format!

Another in-progress story series features nonfiction accompaniments and deals with cryptozoological animals!  Crypto means ‘hidden.’  Experience fantastic cryptids, from vicious 9 foot long salamanders to marsupial lions! Click here to sample.

Don’t forget to click here for Humor!

3. About Dan:

Trying to learn about Dan’s background? See below; his life experiences that shape his writing style? Click here.

Bio Overview:

Dan retired from financial services (January 2018) to focus on endeavors as an author and freelance content creator. During his practice, Dan Gallagher, MBA, CLU, ChFC, CFP®, CBI®”, Dan’s professional designations included: Chartered Financial Consultant & Chartered Life Underwriter (1989), Certified Financial Planner® (1992) and Certified Business Intermediary (2002). 

Dan’s thirty-year financial practice encompassed group and individual benefits, money management, financial plans, business valuation & brokerage, commercial realty and – often very personal – counseling. He has been published in fiction and nonfiction. Dan is registered as an “expert witness” with The Expert Institute, New York.

Chronology:

Dan graduated from Virginia Military Institute (1981), third among Economics majors, simultaneously completing the Modern Languages curriculum. He served in the Infantry, then as a reservist in a Special Forces support role, next as a Training Company Commander and later in a classified Army Research Institute role. Dan completed his Master of Business Administration at William & Mary (1986). 

He and wife Laura married in 1988, loved raising their four children, and assisted both Boy and Girl Scouting at their church through 2010.

Dan has given numerous seminars at major employers and other entities including Delta Environmental Consultants (now Antea Group), Anheuser-Busch, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Canon USA and small businesses. Charlotte Magazine selected Dan as a ‘2009 Five-star Wealth Manager.’ Dan was a panelist and guest speaker at the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce’s 2007 ‘Business Disposition Workshop.’

Dan is the author of a novel, a licensing manual, and numerous articles in journals such as Virginia Lawyers Weekly, Financial Planning, The Daily Press and The Virginia Gazette. Articles by and about Dan have also been published in the Charlotte Business Journal and Charlotte Ventures. His fiction and narrative nonfiction have been published by Simon & Schuster, Skyhorse Publishing, Superversive Press, Millhaven Press, Creative Loafing, NFAA Archery (a humor short story) and Tuscany Bay Publishing.Click to experience these & other Adventures & nonfiction: Get Dan’s fiction & nonfiction online or in-store: AmazonBarnes & Noble’s NOOK & more!

Click here to buy Ancient of Genes NOW at your favorite online store (or look up ANY of Dan’s work)!

Get THE AUDIO THEATER EDITION FREE! USA citizens & residents click here, or here for United Kingdom folks!

Click here to learn more about Dan’s writing style. 

Buy Dan’s work at any physical or online bookstore!