took the offer and it was thus that Black Fall came into being.ĭ.J. Joe ultimately didn’t like the direction the story was taking, so when Joe offered to essentially sell the rights to D.J. became invested in, to the point that he began altering the story, with Joe Cleveland’s assent, and made it more his own. It was while he was doing that when he met with writer Joe Cleveland, who came to him with a concept which D.J. then spent the next two years after that researching and working on his craft as a writer, as well as becoming an editor, helping other writers.

It was towards the end of his final deployment in Afghanistan that he wrote his first book, one which, he admits, was “horrible.” He then worked with editor Michael Garrett, Stephen King’s first editor, who gave him a great deal of constructive advice. He spent thirteen years in the military, which he was able to do as he held both British and American passports, and it was while he was in the naval academy that one of his professors suggested that he major in literature. remarked that military veterans had a lot of stories to tell, even those they didn’t tell anyone else, and was attracted to the stories behind the boxes full of “neat things” that they had. It was when he was seventeen that he realized that he didn’t particularly take well to the thought of the career track that he foresaw being laid out for him with that system, as he was a storyteller at heart. had a very varied childhood, being born in the Cayman Islands and then spending his childhood in Monte Carlo and being educated in the French educational system.

Black Fall by D.J. Bodden