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Dawn Chandler

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I was born in Coffeyville KS, a little town almost on the Oklahoma Border and the infamous town of the attempted double bank robbery of the Dalton Gang, their final showdown. I moved away from Coffeyville when I was only 7 but have been back for a visit and very much enjoyed the Dalton Museum. I always thought I should have been born in the Wild West. We moved to Idaho when we left Kansas and I grew up on Murtaugh Lake, where my father was the dam keeper and ditch rider. I spent my days in the lake, swimming, catching fish, frogs, and tadpoles, from sunup to sundown most days. Not hard to imagine that my first full-length novel was about a mermaid. At nights I would spend time watching football with my dad or cooking with my mom. In 8th gra I was born in Coffeyville KS, a little town almost on the Oklahoma Border and the infamous town of the attempted double bank robbery of the Dalton Gang, their final showdown. I moved away from Coffeyville when I was only 7 but have been back for a visit and very much enjoyed the Dalton Museum. I always thought I should have been born in the Wild West. We moved to Idaho when we left Kansas and I grew up on Murtaugh Lake, where my father was the dam keeper and ditch rider. I spent my days in the lake, swimming, catching fish, frogs, and tadpoles, from sunup to sundown most days. Not hard to imagine that my first full-length novel was about a mermaid. At nights I would spend time watching football with my dad or cooking with my mom. In 8th grade, I had a teacher, Mrs. Smith, who wanted me to publish one of my short stories. Looking back on it through the perfect looking glass of time I should have done it. When I first started writing in class, I hated it. I had to write their way and only their way--in the correct process, outline, rough draft, and so on. Over the progressing years I have learned that I am a pantser, but in the beginning I just thought that writing was not for me. I could not, no matter how I tried, get the outline done. I could not sit and sketch out a whole story from beginning to end, but if I just sat and wrote I could get the first draft out without a problem, but the teachers didn't want me to do it that way. I really began to love writing when I met Mrs. Smith and she cared more about my writing than she did about my process. She told me to write in whichever order I wanted, she understood me as a writer and didn't push me to be something I wasn't. I have been writing ever since.
When I am not writing I love swimming, camping, exploring, spending time with family and friends, hiking, drawing, painting, biking, reading (a vastly wide list of authors, my favorite though is Stephen King), and traveling, for now the country but soon the world. Today I am busily writing my novels, From Under a Dark Shadow, the second in my Dark Series book will be completed soon, with plenty more to follow as time and my muse allows.

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“Horror spread through Peter when instead of giving up as he had expected her to, her grin spread and she swung on him. On him, her husband. He could not believe it, and he barely had the wits about him to raise his weapon to defend himself.
“Stop. What are you doing?” he asked in a panic.
His wife advanced on him as he stepped back. She didn’t answer his question, just thrust at him once more.”
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Please stop by http://www.dawnchandler.net/giveaways... and correctly answer the Question of the Week for a chance to win one of many great prizes. While you are there please sign up to win one of 100 free copies of my novel The Dark Lady that I am giving away in celebration of the publication of my first full length novel. The Dark Lady is a Historical Romance set in the Dark and Dangerous times of the Knights. It is the story of a little girl stolen away from her loving father and forced to pretend to be a boy by her spiteful and angry mother. She excels at the challenges put to her and finally becomes a knight. Then one missive tears her world apart. On her mothers dying wish she agrees, reluctantly, to leave behind the life of a knight and marry. She must then learn to merge the knight she used to be with the wife she is to become.

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