Daniel Dunkle is author of the award-winning historical fantasy novel, “The Scrimshaw Worm,” available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CLV7JN3. Visit his new website, http://indiehorrorwriter.com/ Dunkle received the Book Award for Speculative Fiction at the 2019 Maine Literary Awards sponsored by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. He grew up in Hampden, Maine and is a graduate of the University of Maine at Orono. He currently serves as the editor of The Courier-Gazette and The Camden Herald newspapers and as news director for Courier Publications headquartered in Rockland, Maine. He is married to Christine Thurston Dunkle and has two children. His first novel, The Scrimshaw Worm, tells the story of a group of whalers lost in unfamiliar waters in 1851. First, they pick up a mysterious castaway, a young woman covered in tattoos, who keeps secrets in a journal written in code. Then they discover something has stowed away on their ship… something that can kill a grown man before he can so much as scream for help.