Dan C. Boutwell
Dan C. Boutwell is a retired city planner. He is educated with a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning. However, today his greatest pleasure is to share his written stories with you.
For forty years urban planning was his vocation and focus. He worked as a consultant in a planning firm of which he is still the owner and president. During that time he discovered he had a passion for writing. Over the years he created numerous short stories and tales for his own enjoyment. After retiring, he determined to share these stories, tales, and yarns with family, friends, and others.
His vocation has taken him into scores of cities, both large and tiny, where he was exposed to the colorful history of Texas. He is a student of the West, the American Civil War, and anything dealing with Texas and/or Indian Territory. Dan loves science-fiction along the line of the Rod Serling model. He is an ardent genealogist; his studies in genealogy have fed his appetite for creative writing, bringing the cold facts of the past to life again. His passion is writing, in whatever genre suits him at the moment.
Dan lives in Burleson, Texas, with his wife and best friend, Max, an eighty pound black Lab. A semi-retired city planning consultant, he now enjoys writing and his other hobbies, including his grandchildren. He spends the majority of his time doing the thing he enjoys most doing, writing.
For forty years urban planning was his vocation and focus. He worked as a consultant in a planning firm of which he is still the owner and president. During that time he discovered he had a passion for writing. Over the years he created numerous short stories and tales for his own enjoyment. After retiring, he determined to share these stories, tales, and yarns with family, friends, and others.
His vocation has taken him into scores of cities, both large and tiny, where he was exposed to the colorful history of Texas. He is a student of the West, the American Civil War, and anything dealing with Texas and/or Indian Territory. Dan loves science-fiction along the line of the Rod Serling model. He is an ardent genealogist; his studies in genealogy have fed his appetite for creative writing, bringing the cold facts of the past to life again. His passion is writing, in whatever genre suits him at the moment.
Dan lives in Burleson, Texas, with his wife and best friend, Max, an eighty pound black Lab. A semi-retired city planning consultant, he now enjoys writing and his other hobbies, including his grandchildren. He spends the majority of his time doing the thing he enjoys most doing, writing.
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The Event -- Apocalypse Dawning
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Science Fiction
Dan Jackson wakes up one morning and he is faced with the task of living without the rest of humanity. At first he finds he has an abundance of everything. All the goods in all the stores, every vehicle made, all the mansions and penthouses are his toys, now. In effect he owns the world. He encounters one other person, a female. He is faced with the question as to the nature of courtship when there is only one female and you are the only male. He also discovers man is no longer the dominant species on earth. He is now a just another member of the food chain. Predators such as wolves now rule the land, predators who have no fear of humans. In The Event--Apocalypse Dawning, Dan Boutwell weaves a tale which challenges human capability and intelligence, adding a twist on the usual apocalyptic or survivalist tale, causing the reader to consider “what if”. 
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Dream Wanderer
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Science Fiction
They lived in a world where things that go bump in the night are not mysterious, where images at the edge of your vision are never in question, and where deja-vu was the norm, not just a random occurrence. Rod Serling would say it was the world of the Twilight Zone. However, it was a world shared by David Cutter, Regina, and Joshua. It was the world of the dream wanderer. Like separate threads in a blanket their lives were weaved into life's pattern--part of a greater whole, not knowing their paths would soon cross, that the unfolding of their very different lives would weave inextricably together. On separate tangents their worlds whirled through the cosmos, supposedly unrelated and distant from each other, but destined to intersect at a single point in time. 
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Spam Hummer, P.I.
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Detective
Spam Hummer lives the life of a 1950s private-eye. With his girl Friday, Cassidy, his buddy on the police force, Dave Frisco, and a mentor who owns Hannity's Bar. Spam takes on the cases that wander through the doorway of his one room office. Spam Hummer, P.I, takes the reader back to the days when detective stories were voiced over the radio and paperback books detailing their adventures could be purchased for 25 cents. After writing eighteen stories about Spam and his friends, the author, Dan Boutwell, felt they needed to be shared with the rest of the world, resulting in the compilation of this series of “capers”, each one being introduced by an editor who fills the roll of the speak-over narrator of the old television series. So, let me introduce to you, within the pages of this work, Spam Hummer, P.I. Sample Spam Hummer, P.I. 
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The Event--Down From the Tower
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Science Fiction, Apocalypse
What do you do after you realize the rest of the world has vanished? First, you determine if you are all alone. Dan Jackson woke up one morning and everyone he knew had been morphed into a pile of rusty colored sandy residue. It happened in the instant of the blink of an eye, as he slept. In the first book of this series, The Event—Apocalypse Dawning, Dan searched to see if there was by chance another living being. To his relief he found a young girl named Willy. After taking stock of their situation they struck out to reclaim their world and their lives, which they realize also meant they needed to repopulate the world. This was not without personal ethical and moral conflict and very real physical hurdles. In the second instalment of the series: The Event—Down From the Tower, Dan and his young partner, Willy, establish a small community of survivors, only to find there are other larger and dangerous groups reaching out to find them. Led by an egotistical tyrant going by the title of The Colonel, a paramilitary group seeks to overpower the small contingent at The Tower and enlist their women in a plan to populate and grow a personal army. In addition, the world’s great buildings and creations, as well as the infrastructure, created by mankind is deteriorating around them from the lack of attention of a vanished population. The survival of the small community located in the Tower and the future of society, as they once knew it, depends on how they confront these challenges. 
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The Event--A Matter of Faith
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Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic
After the shock of awaking to a world where everyone has disappeared. Dan Jackson scrambled to find ways to survive. It is easy to find food when everything in the stores is yours for the taking--or to find a place to lay your head when you have a choice of all the marvelous buildings ever built. Of all the places he could choose to live, in the first book of the series The Event--Apocalypse Dawning, Dan chose the newly constructed water tower, primarily because of its ease of defense. Eventually, loneliness becomes oppressive and he began to searching for another person who had survived too. Dan’s good fortune brings him into contact Willy, a seventeen year old girl who was also searching for other survivors. The second book of the series, The Event--Down From the Tower, Dan and Willy discover other survivors and communities, some good and some bad begin to be established. In that book they deal with the challenges of expansion, within the limits of a greatly reduced population and physical issues which render most of the surviving females infertile. This third book of the series, The Event--A Matter of Faith, addresses the impact of our philosophies, more particularly religion have on the fragile survivors of the apocalyptic event they have come to refer to as The Event. They search for an explanation as what it is that has happened to them. What caused almost everybody on earth to morph into a rusty pile of residue? When they come to the point where human reason is not enough, when it falls short, that’s the point where some of them turn to God, who provides the only explanation. However, we find in The Event--A Matter of Faith, that man’s ability to understand God is as varied as the person searching for him. To some he is a deliverer and a giver of hope. To others he is a judge who has condemned the world to perish, except for God’s selected true remnant. And to some God is non-existent, a farce, a crutch for the weak, and a joke. In a world where society has disappeared, we find faith in God has not. However, it is the character of that faith that is setting of The Event--A Matter of Faith. Sample A Matter of Faith 
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