By day, Daniel P. Dern is still an independent technology writer. He's now got blogs including TryingTechnology.com, DernsPRTips.com, and the more general Dern Near Everything Else. Having finished his first sf novel (working title Dragons Don't Eat Jesters), which includes a minimum of "one dragon, two princesses, four dogs, a lot of riddles, some explosions, and a lot of really weird stuff," he's been writing dozens of short-short Dern Grim Bedtime Tales, Few Of Which End Well (see www.DernGrimBedtimeTales.com), which are intended to be Morally Instructive To The Listener, and Therapeutically Cathartic For the Listener (and The Writer), e.g. "The Girl Who Never Cut Her Hair" and "The Boy Whose Dog Helped With Him With His Homework," as well as other kids/YA/Jewish short fiction, and other projects. Most of the DGBTs are short enough to be read aloud in three to five minutes, and some can be read aloud in less than a minute (feel free to request one, time and circumstances permitting).

His science fiction stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies — including "For Malzberg It Was They Came," which appeared in (and sparked the notion for) F&SF's Malzberg tribute in their June 2003 issue) — plus "Bicyclefish Island" (inspired at a previous Readercon), in Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, "Yes Sir That's My," in New Dimensions 8, (ed. Robert Silverberg; reprinted in Best of New Dimensions and in Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves ed. Marty Greenberg), "All for Love and Love for All" in Analog, "Stormy Weather" in Worlds of IF, and "White Hole" in Ascents of Wonder (ed. David Gerrold).

A graduate of Clarion East 1973 and of 1.5 sessions of the BMI Musical Theater Workshops, he is the author of The Internet Guide for New Users (McGraw-Hill, 1993), was the founding editor of Internet World magazine (valuable collectible sets still available, at reasonable prices!), and was Executive Editor for Byte.com for nearly three years (see http://www.dern.com/bye2byte.shtml).

He's also a very amateur magician (including kids shows at sf conventions). ("Performing for free means never having to say 'Here's your refund.'") He lives with Bobbi Fox and their dog Grep, and somewhat fewer but still too many books and obsolete computers, in Newton Centre.