Daedalus Howell began his career as a small town newspaperman, became a big city newspaperman and novelist (The Late Projectionist) later moving to Los Angeles to work in television and film development. Repatriated to the wine country in 2005, Howell worked in a couple of media start-ups as a writer and filmmaker prior to launching FMRL to concentrate on creative projects in the realm of transmedia and branded entertainments.

Howell’s videos have been distributed internationally on such outlets as Showtime Next, MTV2, MTV Italia, HBO Cesk Republika, BiteTV, IFC and Canal+. Recent national clients include Annie’s Homegrown, Sutter Home, Morton’s Steakhouse, No Office Records, RCA, the Planetary Group and the Sonoma County Tourism Bureau, for whom Howell serves as the official “Lifestyle Ambassador,” writing and hosting an award-winning series of videos

Editorial clients have included the San Francisco Chronicle, North Bay Bohemian, L.A. Downtown News, Petaluma Argus-Courier, Sonoma Valley Sun. Recent bylines have also appeared in FL•Sonoma Magazine (editor) and Vineyard and Winery Management Magazine.

Howell currently pens a weekly column for the Sonoma Index-Tribune, the media column for the North Bay Bohemian and is the wine country editor of Tasting Panel Magazine and a columnist for SONOMA Magazine.