Jeff Danelek

A native of Minnesota but a resident of Colorado since 1969, I currently live in Lakewood, Colorado (a suburb of Denver) with my wife, Carol, and a very opinionated Westie terrier named Pip. In terms of a greatly abridged biography, after a stint in the Navy (as a navigator and, briefly, an air traffic controller) I attended the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, specializing in illustration and graphic design before going on to work for a wide array of employers—from the public school system to the aerospace industry—until my retirement in 2023. Today I continue to maintain a pair of websites and host a YouTube channel while keeping my hand in free-lance graphic work, teach classes at Colorado Free University and work on my tennis game (with little success).
As far as my writing credits go, I’ve published five books on various paranormal subjects through Llewelyn Worldwide (with a sixth slated to come out in September of 2026) and have published six other titles—both fiction and non-fiction—through other publishers. This has provided me the chance to do lots of radio (I'm told I have the face for it). I've been a repeat guest on Coast to Coast with George Noury and the x-zone with Rob McConnell, as well as have appeared on numerous other programs and podcasts. I've also had the opportunity to speak at several seminars, including paranormal conference at the haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado as well as onboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. But perhaps the best part of being a writer has been the opportunities it has afforded me to meet a host of interesting people in the literary and paranormal community, among them real life ghost-hunters, past life regression hypnotists, Wiccans, and everything in between.
Besides writing, my hobbies include—but are not necessarily limited to—art, politics and political history (I can name all 47 presidents along with the years they were president and what party they were, none of which has proven useful to date), world and military history, religion and spirituality, numismatics (coin collecting) paleontology, astronomy (and science in general) and Fortean subjects such as Bigfoot, UFO's and things that go bump in the night. I enjoy writing both fiction and non-fiction, much of it with decidedly spiritual, religious, cryptozoological, historical and/or paranormal overtones, and am currently working on several historical novels with spiritual themes that I hope to see in print soon.

My personal philosophy is that life is about learning and growing, both intellectually and spiritually, and that is the perspective from which I approach each project I undertake. Fame and wealth are not the goals in my writing (though they are acceptable consolation prizes); the point of the exercise is to give others a piece of yourself in the hopes that in your words they'll find something that speaks to their needs, answers their questions, or even touches their heart. To have a stranger come up to you and thank you for expanding their awareness or giving them an answer to a question they have been pondering is what writing is all about, and if you can happen to make a living doing that in the process, then it's worth all the effort.