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Danny Beaton

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July 05

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Science Fiction

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I’m Danny, and I’m a writer, illustrator, graphic designer, and lover of art. Yes, that is too encompassing and wide a description. I’m sure everyone now imagines me in their own way; perhaps in a beret, with crazy hair or covered head to toe in paint. So let’s delve deeper, I like stories, and more than anything else; I’m a storyteller, and story consumer.

Mal Winter and the Cloud Runners is the first book I published and is an urban fantasy that is the product of effort, time and then some more effort and more time. The story was conceived to tell a fantastic story to an otherwise ordinary boy, and take readers on a wild adventure ride with its hero. This book was re-edited and a revision was released in the lead-up to the follow-up: Mal ...more

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