Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 My name is David Andrew Crawford and I was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada but moved to Ontario when I was a child.  I studied psychology at Carleton University and then went in pursuit of a degree in Computer Science at Algonquin College until finally settling on web designing and development as a career choice. Shortly thereafter, my father passed away and I delved back into one of my passions, reading fantasy novels, to help take my mind off the loss of my father.  Several years passed and in a passing conversation with my mother, I was urged to write a story about the  character I had made as a child playing Dungeons and Dragons.  My novel is the story of Dark Solus, the character I invented for the game.  On January 27, 2011 my novel Dark Solus An Assassin’s Tale, the first novel in the Dark Saga Series, was published.  My novel has won 2 awards both in the Fantasy genre and both in contests held in the United States.  In February 2012 I won 2nd place in the Written Art Awards and in August 2012 I won Bronze in the Readers Favorite. I write full time and am working on my second novel in the Dark Saga series.  I still live in Canada in the small hamlet of Innesville with my two dogs Ares and Ariel. st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}

I have won a lot of awards for the various sports that I played but my greatest award was placing 2nd for Dark Solus: An Assassin's Tale in the science fiction/fantasy genre in the Written Art Awards for the US. I also just won Bronze for the Fiction/Fantasy genre in the Reader's Favorite Awards in the US. In April 2013, I placed first Finalist in the Beverly Hills Book Awards.