Daniel Donche Jr.


Daniel Donche Jr. is an American author, screenwriter, actor, artist and game designer who has occasionally published under the pseudonym Janden Hale. Under this pen name, he wrote Everwind, a post-apocalyptic book series.

Life and career

Daniel Donche Jr. was born on 25 October, 1979, in Columbia, South Carolina. He graduated from Natrona County High School in Casper, Wyoming in 1998. In 2002, he joined the U.S. Air Force as a member of the Tactical [Air Control Party]. He is the co-founder of Manarchy Magazine and also created the HexCam and Octavum camouflage patterns.
Credited as Janden Hale, Donche played a minor role as Lieutenant Garcia in the film Range 15.
Donche designed artwork for the Darkana Tarot, a tarot deck influenced by the art of Banksy that departs from traditional tarot design. The deck was featured in a collection of themed short stories on Thunderdome Magazine from June to July 2012. Darkana Tarot won the 2012 Pecto Award for Outstanding First Work of an Illustrator and the for best self-published tarot deck of 2012. The deck has been voted as one of the "Top 50 Essential Tarot Decks" by a group of over 13,000 people.

Published novels and novellas

  • Snowleaf
  • Legion of Liberty
  • The Facility
  • Locker 6T3: A Punk Story
  • ''Jester's Down''

    Published short stories

  • Smallerhouse - Slit Your Wrists!, November 2012
  • Gift of the Rook - Solarcide, September 2012
  • Terminal - Thunderdome Magazine, December 2011
  • Sterling Road - Thunderdome Magazine, October 2011
  • I, Jack - Nefarious Muse, September 2011
  • Tampon - Red Fez, Issue 21
  • Revision - Why Vandalism?, February 2007
  • The Severance - Cherry Bleeds, Issue 123
  • Blue - Thieves Jargon, February 2005
  • Randy - Cherry Bleeds, Issue 122
  • The Guy Who Ate His Sister - Swill Magazine, Issue 1
  • The Search for the Haunted Skatepark - Automatic Magazine, Issue 36

    Other works

  • Paper Walls - illustrated poems and quotes

    Interviews

  • Slit Your Wrists! eZine
  • Books and Booze
  • Solarcide
  • Curiouser and Curiouser
  • Personal Tarot Radio Episode #20
  • Talking with Ed and Victoria