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Daniel Mark MacDonald(Born February 1960) is an American author from Dunedin, Florida. He published his first novel, Lost Footsteps, Oct 2020 Amazon. But he started working on Lost Footsteps at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh online in a creative writing class. His professor and classmates enjoyed the story and encouraged him to publish it once finished. He published it in October 2020 on Amazon. In July 2021, Dan was interviewed by Readersmagnet-Author Lounge about how Lost Footsteps came to be and where he got the characters for Lost Footsteps. Now, Lost Footsteps has sold worldwide with fourteen-star reviews. His second novel, "Terry Hill," will be published in 2023, with a different Genre and new Characters. Early life

He was born on Feb 7, 1960, to Harold W. MacDonald (Jan 1929-1998) and mother Joyce E. Deonne (Nov 1936- 2022), both from Maine. Dan was the oldest of three: Scott(1961-2015) and Linda(1964). His father was a trained chef and worked at Wesleyan University for the Xi of Psi Upsilon fraternity. His grandmother worked at the same Frate house, and his grandfather worked for the fraternity next door. They moved to Cornwall, CT, To Marvelwood Prep School, where they lived on campus; his father was the school chef.

The family kept moving around and attended Somerset County Technical Vocational School in Bridgewater, New Jersey, where his father taught Commercial cooking. Dan first went to college in 1990 for Computer programming at NSCC Beverly. Then, AIO for media and Animation (2015).

Career and Hobbies

After college, Dan works for an animation studio online. He also freelance on Dan's Facebook animation page. He paints and works in different mediums in fine art. He also plays guitar and piano music, Amateur radio, and SWL.

Writing -- As an adult, he enjoyed Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, and other classic writers. Dan would read between the lines to learn how they wrote and told their stories. He enjoys the Morden authors Dan Brown, Carla Neggers, and Stephen King and incorporates them into his writing style. He attended other seminars and online classes after college.