Entries by Tanya Dawson
Popping Up Like a Prairie Dog
Hey, everybody! I am popping up like a prairie dog from a mountain of paperwork to check in. My prairie dog is a little like Tron racing through a changing digital labyrinth. I leave my self breadcrumbs in real life and digitally while I shape and reshape the worlds of fiction with Andersen Light: A […]
Lessons Learning—Treading into the Somehow Process
First time writers who know diddly about the book process, like me, receive a powerful shock-a-rooni jolt of reality. Like, we believe we’ll write the book and somehow, as if by magic, it will get “out there”. I still believe that—my grip on faith for courage is my creative life line—but there’s more to the […]
Lessons Learning – Book Proposal. Enough said.
Book proposal. An image can say it all. Enough said. New fiction author, Tanya D. Dawson, has written a story for the young adult in all of us. Her pending novel, Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel, brightens the sometimes dark world of YA to deliver the angst and the weird in this inspiring adventure […]
Fictional Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel, Part One
Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel is the fictitious lighthouse near the fictional town of Mystic Creek. It’s been in the Andersen family since its inception—before the Light House Establishment or its successor, the Lighthouse Service. Andersen lightkeeping goes way back to the old country, the Northern Lighthouse Board and Robert Stevenson companies, if the […]
Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel (Working Title) Manuscript Update
This post includes a link to my first video (https://youtu.be/4SuJVtowg4g) with the latest update on the Andersen Light: A Mystic Creek Novel manuscript. In the video you’ll see me ready for a New Mexico morning of errands, including the U.S. Post Office. New fiction author, Tanya D. Dawson, has written a story for the young […]
Meet Katie, Canine Coworker & Officemate
Katie, a perpetually shedding, half Beagle/half Shiba Inu, is my friend, canine coworker and officemate. She follows me from room to room and stations herself somewhere between the door and me, either to guard or keep me in place. Early mornings we both assume the positions for meditation and yoga/stretching. However, Katie’s role is more […]
Lessons Learning — Knowing Now What We Now Know is Okay (Distractions)
I know we don’t know what we don’t know. Still, sometimes I wish I had known some of what I’ve learned over the past few years a long time ago, don’t you? I allow wistfulness its brief moment but move on to appreciate my lessons—not fully learned, but learning. For example, did you know distractions […]
Georgie and Josefina ask, “What Would Luther Say?”
When baffled by a new subject or problem, Georgie and Josefina respond with, “Let’s ask Luther,” or “What would Luther say?” Whether unexpected or truth the girls hadn’t yet faced, Luther’s guidance and instruction are kind, wise and likely seeded with humor. Like the time something happened before P.E. class and Georgie reacted—really, really reacted. […]
Meet Georgie’s Peeps: A Peek into a New Novel
Meet Georgie Jones’s peeps, the Ryan and Jones families. Mary, a commercial artist, is mom to Georgie and her sibling units, Bill and Rose. Mom’s parents, Grandpa and Grandma Ryan, have a farm in the country, complete with a goat, where the extended Ryan families meet up on weekends and holidays. Dad’s parents, Grandma and […]
