Sean Platt and David Wright met in 2008 when both were at turning points in their lives.
David was just laid off from his job as a newspaper reporter, while Sean was preparing to close a successful preschool in pursuit of his dream of writing online.
Not yet knowing one another, they each decided to start a blog. And they’d both chosen the same domain name, WriterDad.com.
Only David didn’t buy it when he had the chance, opting for another name instead.
A few weeks later, David decided he DID want WriterDad, after all. However, some guy named Sean had it. David was ticked off, about to make a voodoo doll in Sean’s name, when something funny happened.
He started reading Sean’s stuff, and loved it.
Having settled on the name, BloggerDad, David decided to email Sean to tell him the funny domain story. They started talking about writing, and how they eventually wanted to write serious fiction. On a whim, they started working on a story David had been sitting on for years.
They’d both been tending to the stories in their heads for years, waiting for the perfect time to write them.
Once they started working together, they knew that moment had arrived.
When Amazon’s Kindle made it easier than ever to publish and reach a mass audience, they knew their time to grow their story gardens was now.
Sean Platt is author of the books Four Seasons, Penny to a Million, and co-author of Available Darkness, and the serial, Yesterday’s Gone.
In addition to being a regular contributor for Copyblogger, the Internet’s largest content marketing site, Sean has published for some of the largest blogs on the Net, developed content marketing and social media strategies for businesses ranging from single blogs to massive syndicates, and written page turning fiction.
From children’s books to horror novels, to poetry, Sean writes it all. He currently lives in Ohio with this wife and two children.
David Wright is a writer, former journalist, and cartoonist.
David began his love affair with storytelling as a child, when he drew comics and wrote stories he passed to classmates. Being an outcast with few friends, nothing was cooler to him than having classmates ask him, “What’s going to happen next?”
People were not only paying attention to what he wrote, but they actually cared about the worlds and characters he was creating.
David is thrilled to now be given the opportunity to pass his stories along on to even more people. He is the co-author of Available Darkness and the Yesterday’s Gone Series. He lives on the East coast with his wife, four year old son, and two annoying cats.
