Daniel Glick

 

NEVER LOST
An American journalist. A British ex-pat.
A remote Moroccan village.
Two lives whose secrets refuse to stay buried.
March 2027 | Mission Point Press

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Thanks for visiting my site, and welcome to the eclectic world of this novelist, non-fiction author, journalist, multiple media storyteller, international private investigator, editor, journalism trainer, and whitewater river runner. You can find my books, magazine work, photographs from around the planet, some of my radio pieces, and the X-Boat Chronicles, where I share my experience rafting down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon for 25 days in late February on this site. I occasionally write essays and blogs about events and observations without having to go through the brain damage of getting an assignment or contract – you can find those here as well. Please stay awhile and poke around.

A BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE WORLD

I spent decades as a journalist chasing a crazy range of stories for dozens of publications and broadcast outlets: ten days traveling the U.S. with His Holiness the Dalai Lama; a helicopter-skiing trip in Alaska with big-wave surfer legend Laird Hamilton; examining a Leonardo da Vinci painting under a stereomicroscope at the National Gallery with the chief of painting conservation; climbing a 220-foot flux tower in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest. I’ve been writing about climate-change science since we were still quaintly calling it the “greenhouse effect.” I covered the murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, a $12 million ecoterrorism arson at Vail, and worked as a private investigator on a 1988 gay hate crime in Australia that had been wrongly ruled a suicide — later the subject of the Hulu series Never Let Him Go. Australian television once called me an “international super sleuth,” a moniker my kids have never let me forget. Life has rarely been dull.

I’ve been lucky to have lived, worked, or traveled in all 50 states and more than 60 countries (one of which, Yugoslavia, no longer exists). I flew on Air Force One with two presidents, wrote Powder Burn about the Vail arson, and later took my kids out of school to travel the world and write a book about it, which became Monkey Dancing. The book won the Colorado Book Award, and The New Yorker praised my “mordant sense of humor,” which I took as a good thing after I looked it up.

I decided to finally write fiction while witnessing the journalism profession implode and feeling this novel emerge from the wreckage. Although I still maintain that truth is indeed stranger than fiction, I’ve had this secret desire to write a novel after studying literature as an undergraduate and reading novels for sustenance my entire life. A dozen years ago, my partner’s PhD research took her to Sidi Ifni, a small town on Morocco’s Atlantic coast “on the way to nowhere else.” When I visited, I fell for it too. I spent the next ten years returning to write Never Lost.

Never Lost is a book about identity, the people who mark us indelibly without warning, and what it means to look back on the choices that made us who we are.

It’s a novel I lived my entire life to write, and I’ll make you a deal: read it all the way through, and if you don’t chuckle and choke up at least once (not at the same time), I’ll refund the price of the book.

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