Daniel Mattia: Content Writer and Author
Hey, I’m Daniel Mattia (or Dan — I answer to anything, really) and I’m a content writer and fantasy fiction author.
Though I’ve written for most of my life, I didn’t start writing professionally until January 2017. I’d just unexpectedly lost my job in retail management and, without any fallback options left at the time, decided to turn my passion for writing into a career. My only regret is that it took me the bulk of my 20s to do so!
With nothing to lose, I leveraged my credentials (I’d previously done a stint as a licensed insurance agent and still held an active insurance producers license), I started taking on freelance clients. As a full-time freelance writer, I wrote hundreds of bylined and ghostwritten blog posts, articles, and investigative pieces covering insurance, personal finance, ecommerce, and small business for clients including Value Penguin, Ensurem, Bestow, RateGenius, fabric, Yahoo! Personal Finance, and more.
In 2018, I published a fantasy web serial-turned-ebook called IN CROWS’ CLAWS, the first entry in my fantasy fiction Tales of Fyrndell series. Since then, I’ve been working on ASCENT TO HERESY, which I expect to publish some time in 2026.
After seven years of freelancing, I realized it was time to take the next step in my career and transitioned to an in-house content writer role in March 2024. This has enabled me to fill many of the gaps I identified in freelancing, including my desire for closer collaboration on content and my need to continually improve and upskill. These days, you’ll find me writing primarily about insurance and warranties for MarketWatch Guides and Automoblog.
When I’m not writing, I’m usually wrangling one of my two rescue cats — Rocky, an orange tabby I adopted as a kitten in 2015, and Hamlet, a black cat I adopted from a friend in 2020 — gaming (World of Warcraft, Battlefield, or a management/simulation game), or exploring West Virginia (I’m originally from Rhode Island and moved here in 2020!).
Feel free to reach out and connect with me on Twitter and LinkedIn!
