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Member Since: July 20, 2010
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Daniel Koehler


Biography

Daniel Koehler is the author of four novels, Flyover Country (2004), The Sleeping Cab (2006), Unbankerly Behavior (2008), and Splitting Washington (2010). His short fiction has appeared in The Best of Tales From the South, The Birmingham Arts Journal, New Works Review, The Storyteller, The Harvard Bulletin, among others. Literary honors include finalist status in three international screenplay competitions and regional awards for his short stories.

Prior to his writing career, he practiced tax in New York City for five years and then served as Chief Financial Officer of a commercial bank in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he now resides with his wife and children. He has written software used extensively in the financial sector. He attended Leopold-Franzens Universität in Innsbruck, Austria, and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Where to find Daniel Koehler online

Website: http://danielkoehler.bizland.com
Twitter: DanielKoehle
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Books

Growing Up In Pasco    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 12170 words. Published on January 5, 2012. Nonfiction.
Reminiscences of a Nisei son of Japanese American descent growing up in the Great Depression in eastern Washington.
The Second Derivative of Irony    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $2.99 USD. 50980 words. Published on January 4, 2012. Fiction.
A compendium of the author's "Three Stories about..." series with three additional stories added to boot.
Unbankerly Behavior    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $1.99 USD. 28790 words. Published on September 3, 2010. Fiction.
Bank president Henry Potts has a sweet deal. He is looting his bank under the guise of a cost-cutting “Unbank” marketing campaign concocted by John Jimpson, his son-in-law with a roving eye for bank secretaries. Enter Clydine Clumm, a honky-tonk angel on the rebound, and all hell breaks loose.
Three Stories About Eccentricity    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 11120 words. Published on August 9, 2010. Fiction.
Three stories with three memorably unbalanced narrators. Meet Brose, a professional legal entity for hire, who suddenly finds his lucrative anonymity threatened when a friend buys an RPG for him on Avenue C and 13th Street. Then there's Ophelia, whose fetish is the NFL, and finally you won't forget Ray, whose politically-incorrect father's in the hospital for standing up for his black employees.
Three Stories About Misunderstandings    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 6990 words. Published on August 8, 2010. Fiction.
In these three moving stories, a daughter learns the truth about her institutionalized mother, a boy’s misunderstanding of basic cosmetic anatomy and his mother’s obliviousness to his plight causes humiliation for them both, and a man's guilt over his daughter's rape causes him to see only malice in the hearts of his fellow man.
Three Stories About Book Folk    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 10080 words. Published on August 8, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Once we learn to read for pleasure, we become "book folk." These three tales point out the humor and the pitfalls of pursuing the literary life. A bookstore coffee klatsch turns into a battle of the sexes, two screenwriters retaliate after a snooty producer high hats them, and D.D.T. Mumford escapes the slush pile at his white shoe New York publishing firm by dumpster diving for a best-seller.
Three Stories About Extremity    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 11680 words. Published on August 7, 2010. Fiction.
What bubbles up in your consciousness when faced with the extremity of death, either yours or others with whom you interact? The theme of the individual in extremis links these three stories, each singular in its account of the moment we all know we have coming.
The Sleeping Cab    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $2.99 USD. 95770 words. Published on August 2, 2010. Fiction.
The Atonement Killer is murdering young women along Interstate 40, and all the FBI has is a tenuous profile—a religious zealot bent on ritualistic sacrifice. Then small town cop, JOLENE DYKES, crosses paths with the killer, and the FBI at last has an eyewitness. Jolene, however, distrusts the FBI's plodding pace and stalks the killer alone with her own form of atonement in mind.
Flyover Country    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $2.99 USD. 114480 words. Published on July 30, 2010. Fiction.
In 1962, three intersecting crimes—a patricide, a bank robbery, and a kidnapping—lead to tragedy, secret-sharing, redemption, and a May/September romance in Flyover Country.
Splitting Washington    by Daniel Koehler
Price: Free! 103330 words. Published on July 20, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
J.D. CROWELL, a top White House aide, is fired after an indiscreet staff dalliance. In exile, he backs a 3rd party firebrand to throw a monkey wrench into the election between the corrupt GOP President and the popular biracial Democratic challenger. Using every political dirty trick in the book, J.D. makes history while saving himself, his family, and his mistress.

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