Canadian Author of The Dark in the Glow 
A Contemporary Fantasy novel
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If you want to shine bright,
you have to get out of the shadows.
(Getting superpowers helps, too.)
After an exhausting day of social interaction, anxious and nerdy teenager Jacob Branch experiences his first lucid dream. The next day, he’s obsessed with dream control and determined to learn everything there is to know.
The exploration of lucid dreaming radically changes his real life in supernatural ways, resulting in awkward and comical situations with his family, best friend, school bully, and a few new and unusual friends.
A humourous and heartfelt story of twists, turns, and telekinesis, The Dark in the Glow is a wild ride about the challenges of social anxiety and finding the power to overcome it.
Dan Sippley was born in Miramichi, New Brunswick, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
When he isn’t Dan Sippley, the author, he’s a graphic designer, sticker app producer, illustrator, and musician. He loves to create, and sometimes that means writing a book and designing its cover.
The Dark in the Glow is his first book.

"I heard the familiar sound of chickadees and spotted them up on the branches of pine trees."

"I tried tying [the licorice] into a beautiful, tight knot, but it was loose and sloppy."

"Like a blossoming flower, the wrapper opened as I focused deeply on the weight and texture of the paper."

"In front of him was a small boombox. Since I couldn’t hear anything from my vantage point, I assumed it was playing something embarrassing."

"There was something strange that I hadn’t noticed before.
I found a desk resting in the middle of the intersection."

"A few months ago, I tracked down a recipe for hummingbird food on the Net that involves boiling water with sugar, and she called it ‘nectar’ like it was something fancy."

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