Daniel Donche Jr.

Daniel Donche Jr.
Donche Jr. at the 2017 Denver Comic Con
Born	(1979-10-25) October 25, 1979 (age 45) Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Pen name	Janden Hale
Occupation	Writer screenwriter actor artist poet musician
Language	English
Alma mater	Full Sail University, CollegeAmerica
Genre	Speculative, post-apocalyptic, subversive
Subject	Revolution, liberation
Notable awards	Pecto Awards 2012
Website
totaldanarchy.com

Daniel Donche Jr. (born October 25, 1979) is an American author, screenwriter, actor, artist and game designer who has occasionally published under the pseudonym Janden Hale.^{[ citation needed ]} Under this pen name, he wrote Everwind, a post-apocalyptic book series. ^{[1] [2]}

Life and career

Daniel Donche Jr. was born on 25 October, 1979, in Columbia, South Carolina. He graduated from Natrona County High School in Casper, Wyoming ^[3] in 1998. In 2002, he joined the U.S. Air Force as a member of the Tactical Air Control Party. ^[4] He is the co-founder of Manarchy Magazine ^{[5] [6]} and also created the HexCam ^[7] and Octavum ^[8] camouflage patterns.

Credited as Janden Hale, Donche played a minor role as Lieutenant Garcia in the film Range 15. ^[9]

Donche designed artwork for the Darkana Tarot, ^[10] a tarot deck influenced by the art of Banksy ^[11] that departs from traditional tarot design. ^{[12] [13]} The deck was featured in a collection of themed short stories on Thunderdome Magazine from June to July 2012. ^[14] Darkana Tarot won the 2012 Pecto Award for Outstanding First Work of an Illustrator ^[15] and the Tarosophists Award for best self-published tarot deck of 2012. ^[16] The deck has been voted as one of the "Top 50 Essential Tarot Decks" by a group of over 13,000 people. ^[17]

Bibliography

Published novels and novellas

• Snowleaf (Everwind Series, 2012)
• Legion of Liberty (Everwind Series, 2012)
• The Facility (Everwind Series, 2012)
• Locker 6T3: A Punk Story ^[3] (2004)
• Jester's Down ^[3] (2003)

Published short stories

• Smallerhouse - Slit Your Wrists!, November 2012 ^[18]
• Gift of the Rook - Solarcide, September 2012 ^[19]
• Terminal - Thunderdome Magazine, December 2011 ^[20]
• Sterling Road - Thunderdome Magazine, October 2011 ^[21]
• I, Jack - Nefarious Muse, September 2011 ^[22]
• Tampon - Red Fez, Issue 21 ^[23]
• Revision - Why Vandalism?, February 2007 ^[24]
• The Severance - Cherry Bleeds, Issue 123 ^[25]
• Blue - Thieves Jargon, February 2005 ^[26]
• Randy - Cherry Bleeds, Issue 122 ^[27]
• The Guy Who Ate His Sister - Swill Magazine, Issue 1 ^[28]
• The Search for the Haunted Skatepark - Automatic Magazine, Issue 36 ^[29]

Other works

• Paper Walls - illustrated poems and quotes ^{[ citation needed ]}

Interviews

• Slit Your Wrists! eZine ^[18]
• Books and Booze ^[30]
• Solarcide ^[19]
• Curiouser and Curiouser ^[31]
• Personal Tarot Radio Episode #20 ^[11]
• Talking with Ed and Victoria ^[32]

External sources

• "JDH Amazon author bio". Amazon.

References

1. Hale, Janden (2019-10-07). Everwind: Subchapters 1-3. Independently Published. ISBN   978-1-6983-6193-2.
2. "Janden Hale". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
3. Unknown (January 1, 2003), "Young Storyteller Publishes Book", Casper Star Tribune, retrieved July 23, 2012
4. Tolson, Lapreda P. (2005), ""X" Marks the Spot", Airman Magazine, archived from the original on March 12, 2005, retrieved July 23, 2012
5. "Manarchy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-12.
6. Presenters: Robb Olson and Livius Nedin (July 24, 2012). "Three Authors". Booked Podcast. 1:10:47 minutes in. Booked Podcast. Archived from the original on 2012-08-30.
7. "HexCam Official".
8. "Octavum Camo".
9. "Daniel Donche Jr. - Net Worth 2025, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki". Celebrity Birthdays. 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
10. "Darkana Tarot with Janden Daniel Hale". 8 July 2012.
11. "Personal Tarot Radio". Archived from the original on January 31, 2013.
12. "Knight of Pentacles - Dan Donche - Darkana Tarot". Archived from the original on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
13. "The Darkana Tarot Deck". 15 February 2012.
14. Unknown (June 2012). "June 2012: The Tarot". Thunderdome Magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
15. unknown, 2012 Pecto Awards, archived from the original on 2012-11-03, retrieved November 1, 2012
16. Tarot Professionals. "The Tarosophists Awards (2012)". Archived from the original on 2013-05-18. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
17. "Top 50 Essential Tarot Decks". 13 October 2014.^{[ promotional source? ]}
18. Kitts, Laurance (November 30, 2012). "The Worlds of Janden Daniel Hale". Slit Your Wrists!. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
19. Pettigrew, Nathan (September 18, 2012). "Ever So Dark". Solarcide.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
20. "Thunderdome Magazine, Dec 2011". Archived from the original on 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
21. "Thunderdome Magazine, Oct 2011".
22. "Nefarious Muse, Sep 2011". Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
23. "Red Fez, Issue 21".
24. "Why Vandalism, Feb 2007". Archived from the original on 2014-07-26.
25. "Cherry Bleeds, Issue 123". Archived from the original on 2013-01-19.
26. "Thieves Jargon, Feb 2005". Archived from the original on 2008-02-07.
27. "Cherry Bleeds, Issue 122". Archived from the original on 2013-05-21.
28. "Swill Magazine, Issue 1".
29. "Automatic Magazine, Issue 36".
30. Presenters: Sarah Taylor, Dakota Taylor, Renee Pickup (2012-09-27). "Books and Booze Ep 11". Books and Booze. 41:54 minutes in. Podbean.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
31. Gowin, Amanda (July 9, 2012). "Dan Donche (Janden Daniel Hale)". Curiouser and Curiouser.
32. Presenters: Ed Peterson and Victoria Evangelina Belyavskaya (2010-11-27). "Talking with TAROT JUNKIE DAN DONCHE". Talking with Ed and Victoria. 90:37 minutes in. Blog Talk Radio.

External links

• Official Website
• Official Everwind Site
• Daniel Donche Jr. at IMDb