John DeDakis

Award-winning novelist John DeDakis (pronounced deh-DAY-kiss) is a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis is the author of six traditionally published novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series. In his most recent novel, Enemies Domestic, Lark is a White House press secretary forced to make her extremely personal abort-or-not-to-abort decision in a highly toxic and polarized political fishbowl—all while dealing with an attack on the presidency itself. 

 DeDakis, a former White House correspondent, is a writing coach, manuscript editor, and regularly teaches novel writing at literary centers and writers’ conferences around the country. He is also the host of the live video podcast “One-to-One with John DeDakis” on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. 

A native of La Crosse, Wisconsin, DeDakis now lives in Baltimore, Maryland. He has taught journalism at the University of Maryland – College Park and regularly teaches novel writing at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland and at The Muse in Norfolk, Virginia.
Website: www.johndedakis.com