D.N.’s lifelong obsession with the western genre began at a young age watching Gunsmoke every Saturday night with his father. Later his grandfather’s collection of Zane Gray novels—which D.N. inherited—sucked him in. During college D.N. discovered Louis L’Amour, whose novels were way more exciting than Systematic Theology. Forty years later he’s turned to writing stories about the old west and hopes to do justice to his heroes, both in real life and on the pages of his favorite books.