Daniel Loedel is a freelance editor and ghostwriter. He worked in publishing for twelve years, first with Simon and Schuster and then with Bloomsbury. The authors he has worked with have won or been nominated for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize and many other accolades. Prior to becoming a book editor and moving to Brooklyn, he lived in Buenos Aires. Hades, Argentina, his first novel, was inspired by his half-sister, who was disappeared in Argentina in 1978 by the military dictatorship.