About Daryl
I’ve been writing from around the age of ten. My first story was titled, “Frankenstien vs. Dracula.” I thought up the story line one night, during the winter of 1980 while delivering the Calgary Herald newspaper. I’ve been writing stories ever since.
My grade seven teacher in Calgary, Alberta inspired me. He placed a picture of an electric chair on the chalk board and asked us all to write a story about what we see. My story involved a courtroom drama, a DA who knows the guy is guilty of multiple homicide and a few sneak twists that got the guy off, scot-free. Ultimately, the DA does his own digging and gets the homicidal maniac convicted and placed on death row, which eventually sent him to the electric chair without a stay. But not before the DA’s wife was the killer’s last victim. The teacher read mine to the class. I won some kind of award, but I don’t remember what it was now.
Another teacher was Mr. Hill, Grade 11 at O’Neill Collegiate in Oshawa Ontario. When he read some of my work, short stories and the like, he told me one day he would see my books on the bookstore shelf. Today I’m working towards that goal.
Eventually I started writing thrillers with a paranormal twist. I’ve written three full length novels. The first novel is titled, “Bad Vibes.” The second one is called “The Precog” and is currently in it’s final stages of revision. I have also written for a magazine in North Bay Ontario, called the Nippissing Reader. I have published a new monthly short story in that newspaper for over three years.
In the Writer’s Digest 75th annual short story contest, I submitted nine stories. Five of my stories made it into the top sixty out of over 20,000 entires. One of them, “The Newspaper,” made it to spot number 6. (It’s in the archives of this website).
I live in Canada with my wife, Brenda Sedore, who is also a writer of short stories and novels.
She’s my inspiration.