DAN ALATORRE

I am known for writing quickly and not doing a lot of rewrites. I let people believe this. But… Yesterday I wrote 3000-5000 words for the next three chapters in my story, and at 4:30 this morning I had an Epiphany that made me scrap all of it and go in a different direction. Happens […]

Here’s a list of my favorites and what they mean to me, not in any particular order. These have mattered to me. (The image comes first, then my take on it.) At some point you have to stop polishing and publish. At some point, it doesn’t get better it just gets different.   I use […]

Well, I can’t tell you. It would ruin the story for you. But I just wrote a really really really really REALLY important scene. (actually I wrote it yesterday and I tweaked it today) combining a crucial element I knew I needed to put in, and I decided to put it right there. Now that’s […]

The end of my writing for Terminal Sequence (book 3 of The Gamma Sequence series) is allllmost here! I’m very excited. A few days ago, I looked at what I had written. It was about 70,000 words (plus some miscellaneous scenes that came to me here and there as possible stuff to use) and I’d […]

The ebook for Rogue Elements released on 1/1/2020 (thank you if you were one of the hundreds that placed a preorder – I hooked you up at 99 cents, didn’t I?) but we didn’t place any ads for Rogue until today – and today… Rogue Elements will reach #1 in its category, medical thrillers. Tomorrow, […]

So it looks like I won’t meet my self-imposed deadline of 12/31 at midnight for finishing Terminal Sequence, book 3 in The Gamma Sequence series. But I’m close! 50,000 words of amazing medical thriller written since November 22. Not bad. And Terminal Sequence is only 1-2 weeks away from completion, coming in around 65k-80k. I […]

I’ve never been much of a “year in review” guy. I just don’t care for those trite summaries that are supposed to be full of lessons! But every few years or so I find myself doing one… 2019 was a very interesting year, as all years really are. It had big highs and big lows. […]

I recently became a USA Today bestselling, something I’m very proud of. But in the process, Wid Bastian, an alleged marketer, stole more than $20,000 from me and other authors I worked with. That’s not okay. (I have no concerns about what follows because the truth is the best defense. Here goes.) The idea was… […]