Dan McGirt

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Dan McGirt
Born1967 (age 5657)
OccupationNovelist
Genre Comic fantasy
Website
www.sff.net/people/mcgirt

Dan McGirt (born 1967) is an American author of comic fantasy. His current books consist of the Jason Cosmo series, which was rebooted in 2009 with the publication of Hero Wanted. The Original Jason Cosmo Non-Trilogy was envisioned as an ongoing series, but was discontinued by the publisher after Dirty Work. [1] He is a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and Novelists, Inc (NINC). [2]

Contents

Bibliography

Short stories

Series

The Original Jason Cosmo Non-Trilogy

  1. Jason Cosmo (1989)
  2. Royal Chaos (1990)
  3. Dirty Work (1993)

Jason Cosmo

  1. Hero Wanted (2009) - a rewrite of Jason Cosmo (1989)
  2. Noble Cause (2012)
  3. Royal Crush (2015) - an update of Royal Chaos (1990)
Shortfiction: Rainy Daze (2009) - available at Smashwords

Novels

  1. Magicka: The Ninth Element (2013)

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