Daniel MagillIt all started with a video camera. Daniel Magill grew up in California and Oregon, and quickly developed a love of movies and books with his group of friends - especially science fiction, action, and thrillers. For a while, it was just a fun pastime But today, he writes cinema-quality novels in those same genres, including the War Virus series, Future In Doubt, and more.In 6th grade, his class was required to make plays. All the other groups did normal plays you'd expect from 6th graders. But his group did one about pirates, with fake blood and everyone dying gruesome deaths in the end. They were the biggest hit. Then, in high school, a friend had to make a short movie for a report, and Dan found himself with a bulky, analog video camera, filming a super-cheesy story out in the woods.As he hit college and beyond, ambition grew, as did the desire to gain skills to tell cinematic stories. He made an array of silly short movies in college, learning how to shape narratives with editing, music, and plot. He later took part in an LA-based arts organization that blends faith with storytelling, and began learning about screenwriting. Tackling scripts was immensely challenging, and he learned from some outstanding courses and mentors such as Jim Mercurio, Hal Croasman, and Barri Evins.After years of toil on numerous scripts and advancing in a handful of screenwriting contests such as Big Break, he gained great confidence in his writing and storytelling. One script would later inspire the galactic War Virus series. But his finest script emerged in the mid-2010s - Future In Doubt, a sci-fi thriller set in the present day about a young couple who encounter a dying man claiming to be from the future who warns them of a coming apocalypse, and then dies. But - the movie industry had changed by that time.When Daniel began writing scripts, emerging writers still had a reasonable hope - though small - of one day breaking into the film industry and selling a spec script. Today, that chance has virtually vanished. The movie industry no longer makes original screenplays, by and large. In other words, by the time Daniel had become a good enough screenwriter to have a shot, the industry had changed too much. So, he pivoted to writing novels. The War Virus series represents the fullness of Daniel's writing aspirations.Daniel lives near Seattle with his wife and two sons. He's worked as a teacher in both public and private school, and owns two businesses in addition to writing novels. Read More Read Less