Skyla Dawn Cameron

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birthplace = Bowmanville, ON, Canada
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occupation = novelist
nationality = Canadian
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genre = Urban Fantasy
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influences = Joss Whedon
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website = http://www.skyladawncameron.com/

Skyla Dawn Cameron (born September 21 1982) is a Canadian author, primarily of urban fantasy fiction.

Cameron started writing at a very young age, having a poem first published in her local paper at age eleven, then several more in anthologies over the next few years. Then moving to journalism briefly, she had three articles published in local newspapers when she was fifteen, and it was at that time she acted as the senior editor for her school's newspaper, "BHS Headspin". She graduated high school in 2001 and has been writing full-time from then, signing her first publishing contract aged 21. Her second contract came just after she turned twenty-four.

Skyla was ordained as a minister March 30 2002, but has since declared herself an atheist/humanist and renounced her ministry. A former spiritualist, she often referred to herself as being an "Indigo Child", maintaining that her aura is indgio. "Indigo Chick" is a nickname she frequently uses when online.

Her debut novel "River" (2006) won the best Fantasy novel Eppie Award, tieing with "Dragon's Gold" by Piers Anthony and Robert E. Margoff. A second novel "Bloodlines" was released in 2008. Cameron says the Bloodlines series will contain at least five books with an overriding plot arc, each with a different narrator the first being Vampire Zara Lain.

She has completed two new novels, including the sequel to "River", entitled "Wolfe", and the sequel to "Bloodlines", entitled "Hunter".

Her books often fight categorization but all feature strong female leads. Unlike most authors she claims on her site not to be a great reader but names screenwriter Joss Whedon as an idol. Cameron is a member of the Writers' Circle of Durham Region, a non-profit organisation working to encourage writers at every level through peer support and events.

In 2007, Cameron founded the charity anthology project "Nothing But Red", which was inspired by Joss Whedon's impassioned plea for action after the death of Du'a Khalil Aswad that April. Compiled and edited by Cameron, the book was released in 2008 with all proceeds going to the international women's charity Equality Now.

Cameron posts a free urban fantasy novel, "Children of the Apocalypse" on her website on the first of every month.. Her previous serialized novel, "Catharsis" ran from February 2004 to October 2005.

Bibliography

*"River" (2006)
*"Bloodlines" (2008)
*"Whiskey Sour" in the anthology "Bad-Ass Faeries 2" (2008)
*"Nothing But Red" (2008)

External links

* [http://www.skyladawncameron.com/ Authors Official Website]
* [http://www.eighteenquestions.com/index_files/18QSkylaDawnCameron.htm The 18 Questions Interview for The Fabulist Flash]
* [http://www.afterburnsf.com/interviews.php?action=sCameron Afterburn SF Interview]
* [http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=38113 Authors Den Page]
* [http://www.wcdr.org/wcdr/?page_id=2 The Writers’ Circle of Durham Region]
* [http://www.mundania.com Mundania Press]