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Dan Bonser was born in 1976 in Bangs, Texas, and has nurtured a lifelong passion for writing and photography. Growing up just miles from Cross Plains, where Conan creator Robert E. Howard lived and is now buried less than fifty yards from Dan’s grandmother, the pull toward sword and sorcery came early. Alongside the Dragonlance Chronicles, The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, and the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, those early reads helped shape his love for character-driven, high-stakes storytelling.

After escaping Texas in his early twenties, Dan spent eleven years in North Carolina, where he discovered what it meant to be in love, and find peace with the world. It was there he also encountered the works of George R.R. Martin, Jacq
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When Friends Leave

I often have to inform people that I’m not quite affected the same way other people are by death. I mean, it’s true. When I look at people who have left my life, those that have left involuntarily through death tend to hurt far less than those that just up and leave because they chose to go. Unfortunately, though, sometimes that’s not the full story. Sometimes a death hurts worse, but just in a fa

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