Jewel Daniel

Jewel Amethyst Daniel is a scientist, author, and educator who enjoys combining her love of science and writing to teach kids about exciting science concepts.

Jewel also writes under the name “Jewel Amethyst”. Her first full length novel, "A Marriage of Convenience" was released August 2009 and received a four star rating from Romantic Times. Her holiday romance story, "From SKB with Love" is part of an anthology of romance stories "Holiday Brides" which includes stories by Farrah Rochon and Stefanie Worth was released in October 2009. In 2013 Jewel was recruited as one of the launch authors for Amazon Kindle worlds, publishing her novella, “Indiscretion” as part of the YA suspense Pretty Little Liars Kindle Worlds fantasy fiction. Jewel Amethyst’s most recent romance novel, “Hurricane of the Heart” was released in summer 2015.

In 2014 Jewel themed up with her 11 year old daughter to publish the first in a series of children’s science adventure novels “Zapped! Danger in the Cell” by Jewel A. Daniel and Lynelle A. Martin. Jewel has managed to combine her three loves: science, writing, and teaching into a fun and educational book with a science theme, that aligns well with elementary and middle school science curricula. Jewel has a PhD in Biology from University of Virginia, has taught at middle and high school level, has done cancer research at Johns Hopkins University and is now faculty at a Maryland college.