Maine Author - Brian Daniels

Brian Daniels is an avid outdoorsman, a newspaper columnist, blogger, novelist, musician and songwriter. His first novel, Luke’s Dream, was released in January, 2011. His humorous commentary, “Thoughts of an Average Joe by Joe Wright” (“Thoughts of an Average Brian” just doesn’t have the same ring), has been featured in such publications as The Huffington Post and The Bangor Daily News. His second book, Thoughts of an Average Joe, was published by Islandport Press in April, 2014. Brian was born and raised in Vermont’s “Northeast Kingdom." His childhood hometown, Lyndonville, serves as inspiration for Average Joe’s “Smalltown." Brian is a retired U.S. Naval officer. From 1984 to 2014, he practiced optometry in Brunswick, Maine where he lives with his wife, Laurene.




Thoughts of an Average Joe A collection of humorous commentaries from New England’s Joe Wright, an ordinary, middle-aged man struggling to understand and cope with life in the twenty-first century and embrace the ways of the modern world.
In 2009, author Brian Daniels created Joe Wright—a clueless, middle-aged, thick-around-the-middle man hopelessly stuck in the twentieth century. Thoughts of an Average Joe is the hilarious rambling of a man whose commentaries voice the confusion and angst of a simple, old dude trying to make sense of life in the modern world. In this book, Joe offers his thoughts about the many issues that confuse or annoy him: “I’m Not Ready for the Wireless World,” “Poachers Are Not Hunters,” and “I’m Comfortable in My Old Skin,” are just a few examples. He, like many men, struggles to understand his “little woman” and others of her gender in several essays, including “I’m Afraid of the Little Woman,” and “I’ve Noticed That Women Are Not Like Men." You’ll meet Joe, Smalltown (his beloved northern New England hometown), his fascinating friends and family members, Dan’s Market, Small-Mart, Blake’s Esso Station, and the Small Town News. He hopes his stories will bring a smile to your face and warm your heart. Maybe you’ll even agree with most of his Thoughts. If not, he’ll be quick to tell you . . . well . . . you are just wrong.


Luke's Dream  Luke Coffin is a hardworking, easy going, Maine lobsterman who asks little more from life than to earn his living on the ocean aboard his boat, Luke’s Dream, and on Friday nights, to drink a few beers with his comical buddy, “Munsey” Munson.
Luke’s life changes when, in the early 1980s, he meets and falls deeply for Emily Goodwin, a student at prestigious Bowdoin College, whose laughter fills his heart and whose tragic death shatters his world. Luke, overwhelmed by his loss and hell-bent on justice, plots to commit the perfect crime . . . to avenge Emily’s murder. 
Brian Daniels writes with compelling intensity of the bittersweet complexities of human emotion that accompany life, love and loss. With its eclectic and fascinating cast of classic Maine characters, Luke’s Dream is, at once, a story of tender romance and a riveting suspense thriller.