Daniel Lance Wright, known to most as Danny, was born in the fall of 1950 in Lubbock, Texas to Kenneth and Bettye Wright. Home was a cotton farm for the first nineteen years of his life.

Elementary, junior high and high school days, from the mid ‘50s through the flower-power era of the ‘60s, were all spent at the same place, Meadow. Meadow is a town of about 500 conservative farm folks and known for little more than a grain elevator and a cotton gin.

Danny became interested in broadcasting and attended a summer-long radio/television course in 1969 in Houston and promptly went to work at a radio station in Lubbock in the fall of that same year.

From that beginning, he rode a wave of employment in the broadcast industry, but the stint in radio was only a year and a half. In April, 1970 he landed a news writer/reporter job at KLBK TV in Lubbock and over the next two years solo anchored and co-anchored news sequences, adlibbed weathercasts, hosted half hour interview programs, MC’d telethons and became lead staff announcer.

In 1973 he went to KFDX TV in Wichita Falls and settled in as the weatherman for 10 years. The final 8 years there were as a television sales and marketing account executive.

In 1991 he secured a position as regional advertising sales manager of KWTX TV in Waco and later promoted to Local sales manager over a department of eight advertising account executives. As is usually the case with mid-level management positions though, it turned into a liability when top management changed. In the spring of 2001 he was politely asked to find other employment.

To Danny, a leap of faith was called for and took a writing hobby mainstream, joining writing organizations and a critique group. He also signed up for local writing courses and sought new venues to further his education and networking in the industry.

Daniel Lance Wright’s first published manuscript was released in 2007, “Six Years’ Worth” (www.fatherspress.com). The second novel, an action/adventure story, “Paradise Flawed” was released in fourth quarter 2009 (www.dreambooksllc.com ). Both are readily available at Amazon.com, Booksamillion.com, Borders.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

Scheduled for release in eBook, chapter serial and print is “The Last Radiant Heart”, a metaphysical adventure, tentatively scheduled for release in spring 2010 through Virtual Tales.

In May, 2010, the historical adventure of the lady pirate, “Anne Bonny, Where Are You?” is set to be released as an eBook through Rogue Phoenix Press.Com.

Danny has received awards for writing from Writer’s Digest, Art Affair, Frontiers in Writing, Abilene Writer’s Guild, and the Oklahoma Writer’s Federation.

He lives in a bedroom community near Waco, Texas with wife, Rickie. He has two adult children, Angela and Lance, and three grandchildren—Chance, Corbin, and Carlee.

Hobbies include wood-turning and weightlifting. He is also a certified fitness trainer and has done a limited amount of personal fitness training.