“Sean admired loyalty, and after some dark family revelations from the year before had prompted him to leave his mountain home of Winston, he was ready for some of it in his life.” Rocco, Sean’s elderly miniature dachshund from From a Dead Sleep (book #1 in the Sean Coleman Thriller series), ended up being a […]
“The man was likely armed—all of Kishiyama’s people were—but Sean prayed he’d caught the individual by surprise.” Safeguard releases across the globe today! And to celebrate, here’s an exclusive action-scene excerpt from chapter 18 of John A. Daly’s novel. Enjoy! The kitchen and control room didn’t have doors, so Sean ran down the hallway toward […]
Missile Site Park in Colorado is the setting for John A. Daly’s new thriller novel, Safeguard. It also happens to be a real place from which John drew inspiration for his book. Active in the early 1960s during the Cold War, the retired facility has been owned by Weld County since the 70s, and is […]
“Sean had no one left in his life to impress, least of all himself.” Below is an exclusive excerpt from chapter four of John A. Daly’s upcoming novel, “Safeguard (A Sean Coleman Thriller).” Safeguard is the fourth book in the Sean Coleman Thriller series, due out October 1, 2019. It’s now available for pre-order. The […]
Groundhog Day makes a repeat appearance in the Sean Coleman thriller novels People who’ve read my books may have already figured out that I’m a big fan of the movie Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. The film, which I was surprised to learn today is 25 years old (my how time flies), […]
A revived scene from life and earlier work From a Dead Sleep may have been my first published book, but it wasn’t my first attempt at writing a novel. On one of my old computers is an unfinished manuscript for ‘Distant Mileage,’ a story loosely inspired by a college road trip I took during spring […]
Not just clowning around… Dustin Bouche (aka Dusty the Clown) is perhaps the most bizarre character I’ve ever created for the Sean Coleman Thriller series (and there are many weirdos to choose from). My editor told me multiple times, throughout the first round of editing Broken Slate, just how unique and surprisingly complex she found […]
Where did the Hanson family’s “Cochise!” game come from? Excerpt from Broken Slate: He remembered a game called Cochise that he, his sister, and his father sometimes played. It wasn’t so much a game, in the traditional sense, as it was a call to arms. When Sean or his father would discover a mischievous Diana […]
Sometimes a sight is so odd and curious that a writer can’t help but identify the perfect metaphor There’s a river trail not all that far from my house that I like to ride my bike along during the summer and fall. Because of a nearby field, grasshoppers often end up on that trail…where they’re […]
In real life, impulsiveness is a more genuine reaction to adversity than calm, rational thinking. I’ve mentioned in a number of interviews over the years that I wasn’t a big fan of novels when I was a kid. In fact, I wasn’t much of a pleasure-reader at all. If one of my teachers wasn’t assigning […]