Around his current day job as Marketing Manager at Diversified Capital Management in Tucson, Arizona, some of Mallett's writing duties include: Series Editor of SFRA Press' STUDIES IN SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND HORROR; Associate Editor for Gryphon Publications, Other Worlds and Hardboiled; Contributing Writer for Water Conditioning and Purification and M&V Magazine, among others; Assistant Editor at Xenos Books; and Senior Outside Research Associate at The International Research Center, 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.
In the film and television world, he is the founder and producer at Dustbunny Productions, marketing director and assistant to the producer at Caribou Moving Pictures, associate producer for Draco Productions and a producer at Paddlefoot Productions.
Entrepreneurially, in 1998, he 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. In January 2004, he founded Prismic Publishing, a newspaper publishing company which launched its first product in July of that year.
He has had the usual roster of odd jobs required by any writer, including ten years at The Borgo Press, where he started out as a stock boy in 1989 and ended as a series and senior outside editor in 1999 when the venerable company closed its doors. Mallett also served as assistant to the curator (Dr. George E. Slusser) of The J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Literature—the largest cataloged collection of such materials in institutional hands in the world, located at the University of California, Riverside's Tomas Rivera Library in the Special Collections Dept.; editor and contributing writer of SFRA Newsletter and SFRA Review; associate editor of Environmental Times and Central American Times, two international newspapers; advertising sales representative for Southwest Diver; contributing writer for Overstreet's FAN; technical writer for a CD-ROM company, a digital video compression studio, and a water purification equipment manufacturer; procedures analyst for a police department; an ISO9000 certification writer for a food manufacturer; director of writing & business development at an advertising/marketing agency; an auto glass delivery guy; a cardboard box cutter; a lingerie packer; a data entry worker; a call center grunt; line chef at Rusty Pelican; a busboy and waiter for Shakey's Pizza; an employee of McDonald's; a water polo player and swimmer; a janitor for a church…and a Kelly girl.
Mallett received a dual Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from the University of California, Riverside in 1991, specializing in Speculative Fiction Studies, Journalism, English, Creative Writing, Theatre Arts, Public Speaking and Comparative Literatures and Languages under the direction of Pilgrim Award-winning author and scholar Dr. 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 "Ron" Karenga, creator of Kwanzaa, was also his mentor for Ethnic Studies.
Published works include a poetry anthology Full Frontal Poetry (w/Chaelyn L. Hakim & 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); The State and Province Vital Records Guide (w/Michael & 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) and Pilgrims and Pioneers: The History and Speeches of the Science Fiction Research Association Award Winners (ed. w/Pilgrim Award winner Hal W. Hall, 2001). 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 Comic Convention 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, Cooper Commons Connection, Environmental Times, Gilbert Lifestyle, The Grapevine News, 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, Red Mountain Times, Riverside Review, Senior Lifestyle, SFRA Newsletter, SFRA Review, SoCal Cinema News, Springfield Sunrise, Sun Lakes 2 Update, 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 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.
As an actor, TV and film appearances Daryl 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 was Assistant to the Producer for The Message (Caribou Moving Pictures, forthcoming) and Associate Producer for Illusion (Draco Productions, 2005). Current projects include: Assistant to the Producer for In Search of Steven Spielberg (Caribou); Associate Producer, co-Screenwriter and acting in the role of Zar in the film The First Rose of Spring (Draco, forthcoming); Script Supervisor and acting in the role of Drax in the fan film Dr. Who and the Legends of Time (M&V Studios, forthcoming); and co-producer on Turkeystuffer (Paddlefoot Productions, forthcoming).
He has also worked on or appeared in the film Sphere, as well as 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, 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.
Other positions Mallett has held include: Data Management Administrator on contract to 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; Director of Writing & Business Development at Parker Madison Marketing Studio Inc.; and more. He also has been 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 Dir.); The Obsidian Marketing Group (co-founder and formerly Chief Operating Officer); M&V Publishing; Lake Mary Systems; and Tower Communications, among others.
He is currently in various stages of completion on numerous projects, including a fourth edition of Reginald’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards: A Comprehensive Guide to the Awards and Their Winners (w/Robert Reginald); assistant to the producer on In Search of Steven Spielberg, a film written by Star Trek actor Walter Koenig and to be directed by Babylon 5 actor Stephen Furst; compiling The Centurions: An Encyclopedia of Companies Over 100 Years Old and an accompanying book entitled The Praetorians: Today's Business Leaders on Corporate Longevity; Hand of the Romanovs, a mystery/suspense novel; an as-yet-untitled nonfiction work on the history of needlemaking; George Fox: Friend for Christ, a narrative story of the life of the Quaker evangelist; and Kid Drownings, a mystery novel.
Mallett splits his time between Arizona, California, Mississippi, Minnesota and the rest of the world. His greatest joy in life is spending time with his lovely wife Barbara; Jacob and Christian, his two wonderful sons; Maia, his beautiful daughter; and Cleo & Jasmine, their two dorky Standard Poodles; and remembering Fen and Kia, his two gorgeous Huskies. This is followed by visiting with friends, traveling and dining, reading and writing...most of which he accomplishes through his nearly lifelong involvement in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA).
