# Daryl F. Mallett

Daryl Furumi Mallett is an American author, editor, publisher, actor, producer and screenwriter.

## Early life

Daryl Furumi Mallett was born on May 3, 1969, in <<Los Angeles, California>>. His father, Dr. William Robert "Bill" Mallett (1932- ) holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and worked at Union Oil Company (Union 76). His mother, Masuko (Sano) Mallett (1938- ) is a homemaker. He has an older brother, Hiro Ikeura, and a younger sister, Stacie Gonzales.

## Education

Mallett received a dual Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Riverside in 1991, specializing in Theatre Arts/Public Speaking and Creative Writing/Comparative Literatures and Languages (Speculative Fiction) under the direction of Pilgrim Award-winning author George E. Slusser. He also studied with authors like Eliud Martinez, Susan Straight, Stephen Minot, Harry Lawton, Lou Pedrotti, Stephanie Hammer, Gary Kern, Pulitzer Prize nominee Maurya Simon, actor/director Richard Russo, and Babylon 5 set designer John Iacovelli. Maulana Karenga, creator of Kwanzaa, was also his mentor for ethnic studies. Ever the overachiever, Mallett is in the process of returning to school to finish his Master of Library Information Sciences (MLIS) degree, and eventually hopes to get his MBA, MFA and PhD degrees.

## Writing

In the writing world, some of Mallett's duties include being a contributing writer for Water Conditioning & Purification; editor, copyeditor and proofreader for Gryphon Books; Editor-in-Chief of Fiction at Battlefield Press; author at Arcadia Publishing / History Press; founder and owner of Angel Enterprises; publisher and editor of Jacob's Ladder Books; and writing/editing books for publishers in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Ohio and California.
Previous gigs have included being a grant writer for the City of Tucson, a film company, a restaurant and a nonprofit organization; technical writer at Lasertel Inc. / Leonardo-Finmeccanica; reporter for The KGVY Community Quarterly; assistant editor at Xenos Books; series editor of SFRA Press' Studies in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror; contributing writer for M&V Magazine, among others; reporter for four newspapers in Pinal County (Copper Basin News, Pinal Nugget, San Manuel Miner, Superior Sun); director of marketing and business development at a bookkeeping firm in Arizona; technical writing lead for an e-commerce company in California; Senior Outside Research Associate at The International Research Center in Phoenix, working on business and competitive intelligence, corporate strategy, management consulting and technical writing, mainly in the telecommunications, Internet and e-Commerce markets, as well as providing the initial layout on the Arizona Telecommunications & Information Council (ATIC) Monthly Events Calendar.
Prior to this, he was a technical editor at a mining consulting company; data management administrator and technical writer/editor at Raytheon Missile Systems; editor at Valley Publishing of three regional newspapers in Mesa/Gilbert; editor at World Publishing of four community newspapers and associate editor/reporter on an as-needed basis for 26 other newspapers and three magazines in Arizona and Nevada. In January 2004, he co-founded Prismic Publishing, a newspaper publishing company which launched its first product in July of that year and went on to publish nine monthly newspapers.

## Published works

Published works include a poetry anthology Full Frontal Poetry (w/Chaelyn L. Hakim and Frances McConnel, 1991); Reginald's Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards: A Comprehensive Guide to the Awards and Their Winners (w/Robert Reginald) 2nd Ed. (1991), 3rd Ed. (1993), 4th Ed. (2010); The State and Province Vital Records Guide (w/Michael and Mary Burgess, 1993); The Work of Jack Vance: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (w/Jerry Hewett, 1994); The Work of Elizabeth Chater: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (w/Annette Y. Mallett, 1994); Imaginative Futures: Proceedings of the 1993 Science Fiction Research Association Conference (ed. w/Milton T. Wolf, 1995); Pilgrims and Pioneers: The History and Speeches of the Science Fiction Research Association Award Winners (ed. w/Pilgrim Award winner Hal W. Hall, 2001) and Falcon Field (2009). He also served as Associate Editor on Pilgrim Award winner Robert Reginald's massive Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, 1975–1991 (1992) and Editorial Assistant on Mark Goldstein's Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council Multitenant Building Telecommunications Access Study (2000). His first comic book, Hero-Lore #1, was released at the International ComicCon in San Diego in 1999.
His work has appeared in magazines and newspapers as diverse as Alta Mesa Times, Anticipatia, Books at UCR, Buzz, The Clearwater Chronicle, ConNotations, Copper Basin News, Environmental Times, Gilbert Lifestyle, The Grapevine, Hieroglyphs, International Ground Water, ISFA Newsletter, The Islands Current, M&V Magazine, The Newspaper of Cooper Commons, Northeast Mesa Lifestyle, Overstreet’s FAN, Perry Rhodan Magazine, The Pet Gazette, The Pinal Nugget, Red Mountain Times, Riverside Review, The San Manuel Miner, Senior Lifestyle, SFRA Newsletter, SFRA Review, SoCal Cinema News, Springfield Sunrise, Sun Lakes 2 Update, The Superior Sun, Superstition Springs Community News, Thirteen, Trails & Paths, Val Vista Lakes Community News, Ventana View, Water Conditioning & Purification, Water Technology, and more, as well as in volumes for The Borgo Press, Greenwood Press, Gryphon Publications, Jai Press, M&V Publications, St. James Press and Salem Press. He has been published in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and Romania. Of his hundreds of publications, the two which have garnered him the most recognition are "Tongue-Tied: Bubo's Tale" in Star Wars: Tales from Jabba's Palace (ed. by Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam Books, 1996) and the storyline from the two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Birthright" (w/Barbra Wallace, Arthur Loy Holcomb and George Brozak). This makes him one of only a handful of writers in the world to have worked on both Star Trek and Star Wars.

## Film and television production

In the film and television world, Mallett is the founder and producer at Dustbunny Productions, partner and producer at Caribou Moving Pictures LLC and a producer at Paddlefoot Productions. In 2018, he co-founded, with Genevieve Anderson and Mark Crockett, and became chair of the Arizona Film Expo & Market
He has served as baggage wrangler (uncredited) for Dustwun (2020); producer, 2nd assistant director and casting director for Retrocausality (2019), associate producer for Illusion (2005), assistant to the producers for The Message (2004) and technical writer for Lakewood Instruments as part of the movie Sphere (1998).

## Acting

As an actor, TV and film appearances Mallett has appeared in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Star Trek: The Next Generation; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Carmady's People: The Case of the Reluctant Major, all in categories for which there is no Oscar Award. He is currently in his third year dancing for Ballet Rincon in the role of Herr Stahlbaum in The Nutcracker.
He has also appeared in Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade and Disneyland's Bear Country Hoedown, and stage productions of Mame, Waiting in the Wings, Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Pirates of Penzance, The Ghost Sonata, The Apple Tree, The Birthday Party, the Christmas program at the Crystal Cathedral, and numerous Shakespearean plays, among others, and won critical acclaim in Southern California with a DramaLogue Award for his performance as "Christmas Future" in Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

## Business

Entrepreneurially, in 1998, Mallett founded and became Chief Evangelical Officer of Blue Fire Technologies Inc., an information technology, hardware and software company focusing on mobile computing technology, which is seeking venture capital funding. Mallett was also a co-founder of AZSNAP—Arizona's Scottsdale Network at the Airpark, which was absorbed by the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce. Together with some partners, he also founded Prismic Publishing, a company which produced newspapers for the homeowners association market.

## Miscellaneous

Other positions Mallett has held include director of writing and business development at Parker Madison Marketing Studio Inc., as well as serving as a consultant to small, start-up companies such as Keep It SIMple Entertainment, a manufacturer of virtual reality simulators (formerly VP, Corporate Communications); Y-Not Entertainment (formerly producer and marketing and advertising director); The Obsidian Marketing Group (co-founder and formerly Chief Operating Officer); M&V Publishing; Lake Mary Systems; and Tower Communications, among others.
Forthcoming books include: Haunted Tucson (History Press, 2023).
He is currently in various stages of completion on numerous projects, including: Flavors of Arizona, Flavors of New Mexico and Gaslight, an anthology of alternate history stories.