Dan Gallagher

Dear Reader-friends: Ignore ratings/reviews that are 1) void of literary commentary 2) outliers from most others 3) by obscured reader names 4) grammar-gross 5) snide/cynical comments 6) nice comments, yet the rating is low & not about literary merit. Ignore liars who try to deny YOU truthful reviews, who falsely lower rating averages just to punish an author over UNRELATED social media posts. Rely on predominant reviews/ratings by real reader/buyers, pro reviewers & awards. It's hard for Amazon to infer whether a rating is bogus, but YOU can make a well-considered judgement. A description of "Writing Style" is at the Buy Page for Ancient of Genes. Below is a summary bio: Dan graduated from Virginia Military Institute (1981), third among Economics majors, simultaneously completing the Modern Languages curriculum. He served in the Infantry, then as a reservist in a Special Forces support role, next as a Training Company Commander and later in a classified Army Research Institute role. Dan completed his Master of Business Administration at William & Mary (1986). He and wife Laura married in 1988, loved raising their four children, and assisted both Boy and Girl Scouting through their church. During his practice (retired Dec 2017) Dan’s professional designations included: Chartered Financial Consultant & Chartered Life Underwriter (1989), Certified Financial Planner® (1992) and Certified Business Intermediary (2002). Dan’s thirty-year financial practice encompassed group and individual benefits, money management, financial plans, business valuation & brokerage, commercial realty and – often very personal – counseling. Dan has given numerous seminars at major employers and other entities, is the author of a novel, a licensing manual, and numerous articles in journals such as Virginia Lawyers Weekly, Financial & Estate Planning and Charlotte Ventures. Dan’s fiction and narrative nonfiction have been published by Skyhorse Publishing, Millhaven Press, Creative Loafing, NFAA Archery, AncientProphecies Press, Superversive Press and StoriesAmazing. The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning was awarded the CWG Seal of Approval in 2019. His novel, Ancient of Genes, won FIRST PRIZE in the prestigious Reader's Favorite 2022 Awards (besting 30p+ competitors in-genre), two 2022 CMA Book Awards, and its TV series proposal was a finalist for the British/International "Page Turner Award" along with another work, $ecret$ (see Dan's website for details).