Brian Daniels is an avid outdoorsman, a newspaper columnist, novelist, musician, and songwriter. His first novel, Luke’s Dream, was released in January 2011. He has, for several years, written a humorous column, Thoughts of an Average Joe by Joe Wright (Thoughts of an Average Brian just doesn’t have the same ring), which is featured in newspapers throughout northern New England. He practiced optometry until recently retiring in Brunswick, Maine, where he lives with his wife, Laurene.