Who the heck am I? Just call me Dan.  I'm a math and computer geek who also writes SF/F/H, usually under my full name, Daniel M. Hoyt.  Why use my full name?  I'm not exactly sure.  SF writers usually use their middle initials, so I did, too.  Just following the pack :-) (Actually, it's probably because my wife, Sarah A. Hoyt, also uses her full name.  She's just so @#&! good that I just naturally wanted to emulate her.  Check out her critically-acclaimed novels and you'll see what I mean.  What she does to the English language is just plain poetic.  You'll become a fan.) I currently have a full time job supporting the updating and re-architecting of a 40-something Fortran program working with the computational physics of rockets and their trajectories.  Fun stuff, really.  Under my tutelage, it's been completely ported to C++ and has an Eclipse-base Java UI, as well, so it's not exactly trivial.  In fact, it's rocket science! As for my writing career, I have about a dozen genre short story creds, two anthologies edited with Martin H. Greenberg at Tekno, and I am currently shopping my first novel. You can find my work in leading magazines and anthologies (many available on Amazon.com):

The FairWitch Project Witch Way to the Mall 2009 Esther Friesner's new anthology series with Baen. Yay! As for the story, let's just say I mowed a lot of lawns when I was growing up in the suburbs of Stow, Ohio.   Editor Better Off Undead November 4, 2008 My latest anthology, edited with Martin H. Greenberg for DAW.  The title says it all.  Stories by the legendary Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, S.M. Stirling, Sarah Hoyt, Dave Freer and others.   Star Wench Space Pirates Flying Pen Press ISBN 978-0-9818957-0-3 August 1, 2008 Seems I'd already done a Space Pirate for another antho, Cosmic Cocktails, when this one came around. So I wrote a prequel.   Lighthouse Surfer Something Magic This Way Comes March 4, 2008 Tsunami gone wild.  This is how legends get started.   G@vin45 Transhuman February 5, 2008 My take on Ray Kurzweil's H+ theory, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.   Editor Fate Fantastic October 2, 2007 This is my first anthology, edited with Martin H. Greenberg for DAW, with some great stories by Julie Czerneda, Mike Resnick & Barry Malzberg, Sarah Hoyt, Kris Rusch, Dave Freer and others.   Spotman's Chest Cosmic Cocktails December 5, 2006 Pirates and bars in space.  What else could you ask for?   God's PDA Time After Time November 1, 2005 My personal favorite of my published work.  I bought a guitar at a pawn shop, and this came about.  Don't ask me, I just write 'em — I don't have to understand why.   Devil in the Details All Hell Breaking Loose October 4, 2005 Inspired by my many real-life experiences with international customs.  Especially in France.   Shift Out of Control Gateways June 7, 2005 SF and psychology, wrapped up in a love story.   New World's Brave Haunted Holidays October 5, 2004 Dark fantasy, with the ghosts of Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães in Portuguese) and Christopher Columbus.  This was almost too much fun researching to be legal!   The Rose Dreams of Decadence Fall 2003 (#18) Yes, it's a vampire story from the perspective of a teenage girl.  SF is fantasy, really.  So are vampires.  So, they're practically the same genre, right?  Besides, I got my first cover credit :-))   Background Noise Analog January 2003 I once found this story pirated in Russian on the web.  Officially, that's a bad thing.  Unofficially, it's kind of cool to be referred to as one of the "greats" of SF, along with Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein.