After twenty-five years working in the corporate world, Dan C. Duval had enough, retired from high tech, sold his horse ranch, and moved tothe Oregon Coast, where his cat sits on the back of his desk chair and continually reminds him that he should be writing more and that he has not given the cat a pet in the last few seconds. Currently working on writing thrillers, he has sold short stories to a number of anthologies and online magazines.