Julie Ann Dawson (born August 2, 1971), is an American horror fiction writer, RPG designer, and publisher. Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Horror fiction is broadly Fiction in any medium intended to scare unsettle or horrify the audience A role-playing game ( RPG; often roleplaying game) is a Game in which the participants assume the roles of Fictional characters. Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view
Dawson was born in Millville, New Jersey. Millville is a city in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. She graduated from Bridgeton High School in Bridgeton, New Jersey in 1989. Bridgeton High School is a comprehensive community Public high school that serves students in grades 9-12 from the city of Bridgeton, in Cumberland County Bridgeton is a city in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, in the south part of the state on Cohansey creek near Delaware Bay While attending high school, she came across a copy of Stephen King's novel Salem's Lot. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, 'Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror Novel written by Stephen King, and was the author's second published novel The book inspired Dawson to become a writer. She became involved with her high school newspaper, and later worked for both the newspaper and college magazine at Glassboro State College (later renamed Rowan University). Rowan University is a public university located in Glassboro New Jersey comprising 49 buildings [1]
Besides writing, Dawson also studied public relations and marketing in college. While still in college, Dawson began publishing stories and poems with a variety of publications, including Gareth Blackmore's Unusual Tales, Happiness Magazine, Lucidity, Black Bough, and The New Jersey Review of Literature. She graduated from college in 1993.
Upon graduation, Dawson continued publishing by working briefly as a freelance writer for the Vineland Journal. Embracing the growing electronic market, she also published works with Demonground[2], poetrymagazine. com[3], Sabledrake Magazine, RPG Times, and others. She also joined the International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG), and not long after joining became a regional representative for the non-profit organization[4]. The International Women's Writing Guild, founded in 1976 by Hannelore Hahn, is a non-profit network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing Dawson is also a member of the non-profit Speculative Literature Foundation. [5]
In 2002, Dawson launched Bards and Sages[6], a small press 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.
Bards and Sages released its first book in January of 2005, Dawson’s own collection of horror stories and poems entitled September and Other Stories (ISBN 1-4116-1922-6). The book was well-received by reviewers, and was named a 2005 "Recommended Read" by the Online Review of Books and Current Affairs [7]. In March, 2005, she released the company’s first RPG, Neiyar: Land of Heaven and the Abyss (ISBN 1-4116-2534-X). The book, employing the d20 system licensed by Wizards of the Coast, is set on an isolated jungle island ruled over by female priestesses. The d20 System is a Role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of Games primarily based on Fantasy and Dawson is one of the few women in the industry to actually write and design an entire campaign setting. [8]
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(ISBN 1-4116-6029-3). The Koboldnomicon, a compilation of d20 gaming material involving kobolds, was released in July 2006. The kobold is a sprite of German folklore. Although usually invisible a kobold can materialise in the form of an animal fire a human being and a mundane (ISBN 1-84728-898-7) Dead Men (and Women) Walking, an anthology of the undead, was released in September 2006.
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- Computer Shopper.com
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- Self-Publisher News
- Publisher's Newswire
- Mortality.net
- A Celebration of Women Writers
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