D.N. Schmidt

D.N. Schmidt is a science fiction author and humorist. D.N. Schmidt began performing magic shows at age thirteen. While his friends were earning extra cash with paper routes or mowing lawns, he was on stage telling jokes, reading minds, and walking on broken glass. After a few years, he decided that writing was more fun than performing, and presented much less risk of being heckled. (This was before he found out about internet trolls.) He turned to writing stories. He writes science fiction, horror, urban fantasy, anything weirder than real life. Although D.N. Schmidt mostly writes speculative fiction, his first novel was a mystery, “They Ate the Waitress?” After that came a collection of science fiction short stories called The Doom Tapes, and then The Screaming Void, a space opera novella. He also wrote Inspiration Overdose, a writing prompt generator.