dan authored a book, "the little monkey chronicles", , a collection of short stories illustrated by chris thompson and published by clearly the underdog publishing. in addition, in 1999 hoerner and john despirito co-founded the now defunct online art community called the art conspiracy. the art conspiracy was an early social media platform that contained many elements later incorporated into sites like myspace and facebook. at its peak, the art conspiracy hosted more than 500,000 users.