Imaginarium 2019 is proud to welcome USA Today best selling author, game designer, and comic creator Dan Jolley as a Spotlighted Guest! From top selling video games like Dying Light, to his Harper Collins middle-grade series Five Elements, to his work with DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse Comics, Dan Jolley is a writer who has succeeded in a number of writing realms! His broad range of skill and expertise will be a great addition to our programming and few writers have the kind of cross-platform insights that Dan does! We are elated to have Dan with us for our best year yet!
Dan Jolley began writing professionally at age 19. Starting out in comic books, Dan has worked for major publishers such as DC (Firestorm), Marvel (Dr. Strange), Dark Horse (Aliens), and Image (G.I. Joe), and soon branched out into licensed-property novels (Star Trek), film novelizations (Iron Man), and original novels, including the Middle Grade Urban Fantasy series Five Elements and the Urban Sci-Fi Gray Widow Trilogy. Dan began writing for video games in 2007, and has contributed storylines, characters, and dialogue to titles such as Transformers: War for Cybertron, Prototype 2, and Dying Light, among others.
His latest work marks his first foray into the Mystery/Thriller realm, with the “Southern-fried Stephen King” novel The Storm.
Dan lives with his wife Tracy and a handful of largely inert felines in northwest Georgia, and enjoys connecting with readers via his website (www.danjolley.com) and on Facebook (facebook.com/dan.jolley1) and Twitter (@_DanJolley).