Dan and Janet, Sullivan's Island, SC, June 2009.
Dan Conover is a bicycle mechanic and digital content consultant in Charleston, SC. He was formerly an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years experience as a reporter, editor, videographer, blogger and Web administrator. His job titles range from city editor [of The Shelby (N.C.) Star and The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier] to News Director (Charleston.net), and he was named South Carolina’s Journalist of the Year in 2005 for his coverage of science and technology. His other honors include North Carolina Press Association awards for investigative reporting and illustration, and multiple Phobos Fiction Awards.
Conover left the newspaper business on a buyout in August 2008 and spent the next year writing professionally for several publications and websites, consulting for three companies, teaching for The American Press Institute and making appearances for the Johns Hopkins University Center for International Relations and the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute. In November 2009 he went to work full time as a content engineering consultant for e-Me Ventures, a Chicago-based software company involved in developing semantic technologies for the media industry.
He has fulfilled professional contracts as a web designer, an illustrator, a video biographer, a blogger, a workshop leader, a videographer and a photographer.
Conover is a lapsed member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the author of the novel The Key to Darbas. His screenplay, Undertow, is being produced by Modern Mediaworks. His science fiction short stories have been published in four paperback anthologies.
Dan went to work as an entry-level bike mechanic for the Trek Bicycle Store of Mount Pleasant in April 2010.
He has been married to Janet Edens Conover since 1999. They have four children (David Hartsell, Luke Conover, Lee Hartsell and Callie Hartsell) from previous marriages and live in Charleston, SC.
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