by dawnshipman | Aug 23, 2021 | Writing
by dawnshipman | Jul 27, 2021 | Journeys, Writing
This summer has been great–and challenging–as I’ve begun working with the editor at Elk Lake Publishing on the manuscript for book one of my trilogy–The Lost Stones of Argonia, “Kingdom Lost.” Other excitement involves attending my...
by dawnshipman | May 20, 2021 | Journeys, Writing
The above list is the notification of the finalists for this year’s Oregon Christian Writers Cascade Award contest. And that’s ME, there, under Young Adult Book! “To Soar on Jeweled Wings” is the title of my latest endeavor in Young Adult...
by dawnshipman | Apr 27, 2021 | Writing
Sometimes you wait for so long for something to happen, that when it does, it’s pretty hard to believe it. Well, that’s what’s happened. On April 11, 2021, Elk Lake Publishing offered me a 3-book contract for my Lost Stones of Argonia series! A few...
by dawnshipman | Mar 17, 2021 | Journeys, Writing
You must understand–I don’t even listen to podcasts for the most part–so when a friend invited me to speak to her church’s writers group, and that I could also hang out afterward and be interviewed for a podcast…I hesitated. Sort of. I...
by dawnshipman | Feb 25, 2021 | Writing
There’s an old saying–“It never rains, but it pours.” Remember that one? Well, that’s how it is up here on the hill in Longview, writing-wise AND in the real world. (Don’t even ask my about this year’s flooding, which came...
by dawnshipman | Jan 26, 2021 | Reviews
This is a new category for me, but one I may be using more as time goes by. Everyone wants to hear about a good book to read, right? And ones to avoid. This one was a re-telling of Snow White. If this is not your thing, feel free to skip it. 🙂 Dawn Hill...
by dawnshipman | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
(I write a lot about courageous teenage girls. Since it’s Christmas, come along as we talk about a real girl who faced down some pretty amazing real problems!) Four hundred years is a long time. Four hundred years ago, the Mayflower arrived with the pilgrims in...
by dawnshipman | Oct 2, 2020 | Journeys
I am a writer of fantasy. If you ask any fantasy writer to list the authors who have most influenced them, the names C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien will be at the top of most of those lists. I am no exception. I was well past childhood when I was introduced to Lewis...
by dawnshipman | Sep 12, 2020 | Journeys
It’s been more than twenty years since the skinny kid with the round glasses, brilliant green eyes, and the odd, lightning-shaped scar burst onto the literary scene–and into the Muggle world–and it would be hard to find anyone anywhere who...
