Did you know Dan Greenburg’s first wife was comic screenwriter/novelist/director Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle)? Michael Posner recently profiled Dan Greenburg in the Globe and Mail. It’s a great article about the fears and phobias that Greenburg capitalizes on in his writing career and some interesting tidbits about Dan’s life.

“Feel the fear—and publish” by Michael Posner, Globe and Mail

The American writer and humorist Dan Greenburg has, for some time now, made a very respectable living based, essentially, on a four-letter word that starts with F.

No, not that word.

His word is fear—that substantial inventory of fears, phobias and neuroses, genetically inherited or carefully nurtured, that he grew up with on the north side of Chicago and that he has spent the better part of his adult life addressing, in one fashion or another.

Dan Greenburg is the author of the preteen series Secrets of the Dripping Fang (Harcourt). He was also featured on YTV’s The Zone last week. A special online clip of the interview is available at YTV.com.

Titles in Secrets of the Dripping Fang series include:

Book One: The Onts
Book Two: Treachery And Betrayal At Jolly Days
Book Three: The Vampire’s Curse
Book Four: Fall Of The House Of Mandible
Book Five: Kill Wally (coming August 2006)
Book Six: tbc (coming December 2006)