Dan Williams

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Dan Williams is a Northern Vermont author of dark, fast-paced thrillers and speculative fiction. His debut novel, Last Seen Online, is a YA techno-thriller about grief, secrets, and the terrifying question of what happens when a dead girl’s digital life refuses to stay quiet. His upcoming novel, Unstable Bonds, continues his love of tension, buried truths, and high-stakes suspense.

He also writes urban fantasy and horror, building stories around sharp character dynamics, escalating danger, and high-concept twists grounded in real-world detail. His current projects include the urban fantasy novels Soul Sucker and Pact Ink.

When he isn’t writing, Dan is working toward becoming a high school chemistry teacher. He lives in Vermont with his wife,
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The Concept of Unstable Bonds

People always ask where story ideas come from, and honestly, sometimes they arrive as a scene, sometimes as a character, and sometimes as one question I just can't let go of.

For Unstable Bonds, it started with this:

What happens when the truth is not just hidden, but actively shaped into something else?

That idea stuck with me for a long time. The more I turned it over in my head, the more I rea

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