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Jack Templar Monster Hunter (The Jack Templar Chronicles Book 1) by Jeff Gunhus 

Book 1 of the six-book series by USA TODAY bestselling author Jeff Gunhus. Written for middle graders, enjoyed by people of all ages.

Orphan Jack Templar has no memory of his parents and only the smallest details from his Aunt Sophie about how they died. The day before Jack’s fourteenth birthday, things start to change for him. At first it’s great: A sudden new strength helps him defend his nose-picking friend “T-Rex” from the school bully, and even his crush, Cindy Adams, takes notice. But then a mysterious girl named Eva arrives and tells him two facts that will change his life forever. First, that he’s the descendent of a long line of monster hunters and he’s destined to be in the family business. Second, that there’s a truce between man and monster that children are off-limits…until their fourteenth birthday! Jack has only one day before hundreds of monsters will descend on his little town of Sunnyvale and try to kill him.

As if that weren’t enough, things get even more complicated when Jack discovers that the Lord of the Creach (as the monsters are collectively known) holds a personal grudge against him and will do anything to see that Jack has a slow and painful death. To stay alive and save his friends, Jack will have to battle werewolves, vampires, harpies, trolls, zombies and more. But perhaps the most dangerous thing he must face is the truth about his past. Why do the other hunters call him the last Templar? Why do they whisper that he may be the “One?” Why do the monsters want him dead so badly?  Even as these questions plague him, he quickly discovers survival is his new full-time job and that in the world of monster hunters, nothing is really what it seems.

For Middle Grade readers and higher.
Fans of: Percy Jackson Series, Harry Potter and The Goosebumps Series by R.L. Stine
“Jeff Gunhus brings young readers a monster-filled romp…complete with action, cliff-hangers and surprise reveals.”

In his books and blogs, Daniel Hansen writes in eclectic and vastly different genres that spiral around each other in a disjointed happiness.

Monster’s Children (The Tricksters’ War Book 1) by Daniel Hansen

  The Queen of Order and the Trickster gods originally formed an alliance to defend against the dreaded beast they called the Monster. That alliance was dashed with the Monster’s defeat. The war that erupted with the alliance’s dissolution has ripped the land apart for millennia. With recent defeats the Tricksters face an unpleasant truth. They need the help of their most malicious and feared member. They need Spider and her Chosen to win this war.

Jamie is the newest Chosen of the Spider. Having spent her childhood struggling to fit within society, Jamie has been set free from hiding behind masks. As she learns to contend with the power within her so to must she come to terms with her feelings for her alluring teammate Nettle.

Jamie and her team must discover what makes them so special before they fight against those that would bring Order to a world meant to stay wild and free. Most importantly she must learn what it means to be a monster’s child.

Jamie is noted by one reader as a “Psychopathic Power Ranger that stabs her way through obstacles leaving a trail of bodies.”

Another said about her team, “This is what Captain Planet and the Planeteers would look like if they had a lust for blood and each other instead of charity work.”

About the author, Daniel Hansen:

Daniel Hansen (known as Dandan) is a philosopher and an artist. He works to move past being just an artist and become the art that he creates. He is a social philosopher, and has supported his life through helping the casino industry increase their profits. He is a new author (even finishing a first novel) while working as a consultant. He has spent his life helping casinos and other businesses achieve higher revenue by providing experience based insight and informed direction through improved analytics and more efficient operations. Dandan started working in gaming in September of 1997 at a tribal casino. He spent his entire adult life managing people. In that work, he found that true success does not come just with a bigger bottom line, but through Servant Leadership. Only by empowering others will one find success in this life. He is nobody, and nothing. Dandan has worked his way through the industry by being an objective observer, which allowed him to improve inefficient systems and help people.

Dandan is an enrolled member of the Village of Kotzebue and a voting shareholder of the NANA Corporation. He grew up in rural North Idaho on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation. He has lived in many places, though Honolulu Hawai’i was a favorite. He loves to travel the world and find new places and foods. He loves food, and considers himself a foodie, if a drunken version of one. He is highly eclectic and loves to try new experiences. He lives very much by the doctrine of experience. With recent changes in his life, he has decided to create a blog, “Our Orchard.”

Our Orchard will be filled with short stories, book ideas, book promotions, food thoughts, travel enjoyments, and just basic things that come about that Dandan wants to talk about (maybe go over the many ways to make the best cup of coffee, and yes there are many). His goal is not in creating a marketing commercial for his books, but instead to create a journal of his adventures.

Dandan has begun a life of traveling and writing. He has become a leaf upon the wind. He spent time at Standing Rock in protest, visited places in the world that sounded illuminating (only two continents left to visit (Australia and Antarctica)). He has spent a lot of time deciding on what to do next. He has recently decided to live in the enviable (or unenviable as the case maybe) position of being his own master, beholden to none.

In his books and blogs Daniel Hansen writes in eclectic and vastly different genres that spiral around each other in a disjointed happiness. He has at times succeeded and others failed in life. Through his failures he will finds his way to success. He works as a consultant, and may work at another Casino someday. But, he lives his life as a libertine, and an artist of experience.

He is the wind and the wind passes through him. As a hobby and a food source Dandan loves to garden. He even attempted to create a gardening app a while back on Kickstarter. He loves the warm sun on his face and the dirt in his hands. Spring in Idaho is the perfect time to live in the now. Dandan has learned through his years of gardening that to expect flowers one must plant seeds.

Personal Note

It is my goal to learn how to best sow the future I wish to have. I seek to learn the best way to live in this world, and I plan on sharing that journey. I invite you to join me on my adventure. The time has come to embrace the next step in life. To find a better way to enjoy my world. Follow me as together we plant seeds and grow our orchard.