I have loved reading romance since I was a girl. I started with Harlequins in my early teens--I used to sneak them into church because the sermons were so long, much to the chagrin of my grandmother--moved on to the big historicals of the 80's, and decided to write my own at age 24. Not that I actually finished one.
I am married to my college sweetheart and we have two teenage sons. After the birth of my second son, I did finish my first book, but did not manage to get it published. So I did what anyone else would do--studied martial arts and bellydancing, opened my own New Age bookstore, and became a licensed massage therapist. Luckily my husband has patiently dealt with all my eccentricities over the years.
Then I discovered erotic romance and a whole new world opened up for me. Within five months I had finished and sold my first manuscript, a medieval fantasy which will be a summer 2007 release from Samhain Publishing, and am now happily writing the rest of the series.
My big brush with fame is that I graduated from college with Woody Harrelson, Hanover College, Hanover IN, made famous by his character Woody Boyd in Cheers.
I still live in Southern Indiana, but try to make frequent visits to my home state of Virginia and the Blue Ridge Mountains that I love, especially when the leaves begin to turn as autumn rolls around.
This is a poem I wrote that was published way back in 1997.
I have included it here as a thank you to Samhain Publishing.
She beckons from the shadows,
Hunter's moon, winter weald
draped in tattered cloth of rime.
Walk the dark with me.
Rest not so stale and safe inside
when winds blow bleak
and shivering trees bare bark of bone
in voiceless adulation.
Walk the dark with me.
Wilder now her summoning.
Siren's song of wind-seared leaves,
whispered drift of incantation
meant not for eldritch ears alone.
Walk the dark with me.
My eyes snap shut against the glare of dawn.
I find no comfort in the coming light.
Her promise echoes always in my soul--
Come, my child, come away
and walk the dark with me.
by Gia Dawn
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