The God Whisperer
Daniel J. Davis
Alex Brock
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel J. Davis was born and raised in Massachusetts. He developed an early love for science fiction and fantasy by staying up late and watching movies. The stories on screen fired his imagination. Soon the ones on screen weren’t enough, and Daniel was creating his own stories.
He only brings this up because his teachers always told him that TV would rot his brain. He would like to point out that they were wrong.
Daniel doesn’t hold it against them, however. He also learned to read from some of those same teachers. Without them, he would never have discovered some of the amazing and fantastic worlds inside his favorite books.
They were still wrong, though.
He is a veteran of both the US Marine Corps and the US Army. In civilian life, he’s been a machinist’s apprentice, a security guard, and a building maintenance worker.
He lives in North Carolina with an amazing wife, two dogs, and several piles of unread books. Writers of the Future is his first professional sale.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Alex Brock is twenty-three and an art student attending his last semester at the University of Arizona. He loves all things fantasy and creepy. He’s been drawing since he was a kid, but what really got him into art was Dragon Ball Z. The majority of his drawings from fourth to sixth grade were muscly guys with huge hair. He was really inspired by video games like Zelda and Oblivion, along with the awesome characters from Super Smash Bros. and SoulCalibur. He was also inspired, consciously and subconsciously, by reading such books as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, H.P. Lovecraft’s work and more.
After his younger brother got a tablet in 2009 and Brock saw all the awesome stuff his brother was able to do in Photoshop, Brock got his first tablet. He became very interested in fantasy art shortly after discovering DeviantArt, and later CGHub. He tried his best to get on par with everything he saw on those sites, and now (while still trying to get on par) he is working on finding and creating his own niche.
With his work, he strives to bring things that don’t exist in our world into reality, doing his best to imagine what they would actually be or look like. He aims to imagine settings and scenarios that would make his jaw drop if he ever saw them in person. Yet he still finds himself inspired by many of the old master painters from 1850–1950.
Today Brock is taking his work very seriously. He is really excited to explore the darkest depths of his imagination on his journey through art.