Professional Life
After graduation, Dawson became a freelance writer for Vineland Journal. Embracing the growing electronic market, she published works with Demonground, Poetrymagazine.com, Sabledrake Magazine, RPG Times, and others. She also joined the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG) and the Speculative Literature Foundation.
In 2002, Dawson launched Bards and Sages, a small press publisher to promote her own projects, and to offer resources for young writers. The company’s first project was a writing contest to benefit the IWWG.
Dawson published her first book, September and Other Stories, a collection of horror stories and poems, under Bards and Sages in 2005. It was received to positive reviews.
In March 2005, she released the Bards and Sages’s first RPG, Neiyar: Land of Heaven and the Abyss. The book, employing the d20 system licensed by Wizards of the Coast, is set on an isolated jungle island ruled over by female priestesses.
Besides publishing a wide variety of electronic content, Dawson's company has an expanding catalog of print books. The first, Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, was released in February 2006 and features the winners of the company's annual writing contest. The Koboldnomicon, a compilation of d20 gaming material involving kobolds, was released in July 2006. Dead Men (and Women) Walking, an anthology of the undead, was released in September 2006.
Since January 2009, she has been the editor-in-chief of Bards and Sages Quarterly, a speculative fiction literary magazine, published by Bards and Sages.
Dawson has been a resident of Bridgeton, New Jersey.
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