Dawn Judd - Author

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ICT Con

- June 22, 2017

I have just mailed off my application for ICT con. Nadia and I are gonna try really hard to have Tonga done in time to present it at the con. It will be close. (especially since I just scrapped an entire chapter and Nadia just put a big change in our outline.)

Progress on Tonga

- June 08, 2017

So far Tonga has been completely hand written. It's not that I prefer pen and paper over the laptop or anything like that. I just try to write whenever I get a free minute, which is almost never. So I carry a notebook around with me and write when I can. I am happy to say that the first notebook is full today. It's going slower than I would like, but I've been busy and I've also been stopping now and again to research a few things. Not as much info on prehistoric men and animals as one would like you know, so it takes some time. But the story is still steadily coming along. Hopefully it will be done in time for ICT con or the fall Ren Faire.

Dawn Judd grew up in a small town in South Dakota. Her creative streak began early in life, with a love of all things artistic. She loved drawing and painting, and spent most of her school years in art classes. Poetry was another love, but one she kept to herself, with the exception of two of her favorites, which were later published in anthologies. She stayed in South Dakota until she moved to Chicago at the age of twenty-one. She spent the next several years as a military wife, and moved from one state to the next until she found herself living in Kansas. It was there that she discovered the love of writing stories and wrote a handful of short stories for her own personal collection. In 2007, she began work on Reining In, a story of the Network, an organization created to protect 5,000 year old vampire, Khalida. Although she didn't originally intend for it to be published, encouragement from friends, family and fellow authors convinced her to share it with the world. In 2009, Reining In was her first novel to be published. It was soon followed by Phantom Rising, a continuation of the Network saga. Soon after, she founded the Breakout Books page on facebook, which was followed up by Breakout Books Reviews, a book review blog. She used both sites as a way to promote her fellow authors. Breakout Books has grown to over 700 members and is still holding strong.