Daniel Rundquist

I have been writing for many years now. It is a rewarding challenge.

Fiction...

The Legend of Striker's Gold took me about two to three years to complete after it became apparent to me that Striker's (as a writing project) had the best shot for entertaining a broad audience; and the writing flowed so naturally for me that I was composing paragraphs in my head at all hours of the day and night. So it went to the top of the project list. I delved into research, reading history books of the American West and jotting down a few dozen pages of notes.

I decided late in production that I wanted pictures in the books. I needed cover art also and I thought it would be best to have original photography rather than use stock photos. The photography in the Striker's Gold series was shot by Cheryl Travis on location in Arizona in February 2013. Cheryl loves photography and has real talent for her craft.

Striker's Gold is actually based on a real life gold strike discovered during the gold rush. I would not have known that without the research. I also wanted to peg certain themes and activities that take place in the story to the real life time line of the west. I think this makes the story more interesting and credible -which I believe to be the real magic in writing realistic fiction. The second in the series Bad Blood takes up right where the the first one ends. There are two more titles in this series, Tucker's Trial and Skeeter's Gambit only available in Striker’s Gold Treasury (2023).

Another series, the Fernandes Files offers another, more modern series to life for my readers. The series takes place in the 1990's and the main character is a Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Thomas Fernandes from New York, who is initially pressed into service to solve a crime and return an important holy relic to the Vatican in the first installment The Fourth Relic (2021), The second installment in this series, The King's Chalice (2024) takes place only a few years later in Virginia. Fr. Thomas becomes entangled in a dangerous recovery of the Eucharist Cup that once belonged to a Byzantine King in the 15th century. There are more issues in this series planned, so be sure to follow me on Facebook for updates.

Nonfiction...

The Surviving Works of William David Sutton are actually about 90 pages of my Great-Great Grandfather's work which he intended to one day publish. He died at the age of 56 in 1899 before he could realize that goal. I painstakingly deciphered his prose word by word and assembled what pages we had into his short book. The result is a very interesting period piece filled with wisdom, observations, eloquence, and at times, disdain and concern.

My book, "Tears for Byzantium; The Entropic Course of American Exceptionalism" (2017) is available from the publisher, New Plymouth Press. Here we discover that many of the events we see today are actually very similar events to those that occurred in antiquity.

A second book in this series examines the failure of Christianity to maintain unity and virtue in the American culture. "The Unholy Land, the Struggle for Unity and Virtue in America." (2020)

From 2016 to 2020 I was a contributing writer for the Caldwell Journal, a local periodical. In 2023 I began to work as Staff Writer for Whiskey Network Magazine.