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Daniel Martin Eckhart is the author of the novels The Champ, Barnaby Smith, Home, Tales of Wychwood and The Sweet-Maker of Connemara.

Eckhart has written screenplays for more than two decades, has published several of his original screenplays in the Eckhart Screenplays series and shared his experiences about the life of a screenwriter in his book, Write, Write, Write.

Before focusing on his writing career, Eckhart served in the Swiss military, guarded the Pope's life in the Vatican, worked for the United Nations, driving trucks across the Sinai Desert, delivering diplomatic mail to Damascus and driving armored limousines in Beirut. After five adventurous years in Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, Eckhart quit the UN to study acting in New York ...more

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Quintus Hopper of Nevada - the novel and the research

Quintus Hopper of Nevada is published and it was a fantastic experience in many ways - among them was the research and what I've ended up doing with it.

I've worked on this novel for about three years. As it is a historical novel and my protagonist meets more than a few real-life people (such as Mark Twain, Sarah Winnemucca, Wovoka, Helen J. Stewart), I thoroughly enjoyed spending quite a bit of my Read more of this blog post »

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