Dawn Meredith - Author

My newest book, Secrets of the Water Meadow , published by Forty South, is now available here: buy here   So, what is this story about? I based this story upon my own experiences as a young girl, who moved to Norway, aged twelve. From Perth, Western Australia, to one of the coldest countries in Europe, it was a big change! And learning a new language was also a challenge. My younger sister and I lived with our family on a small island, in an old wooden house, facing the magnificent Romsdals fjord. It was like my favourite TV show of all time - 'Little House on the Prairie! Secrets. .. is told by the younger sister, Freya, who is an adventurous but quite lonely girl in some ways. She has a best friend at school, but her family live and work on a dairy farm on a small island, so going to school means travelling by mini bus and ferry, twice a day. Freya lives in a stunningly beautiful place and spends a lot of time outdoors. One day, she meets a strange but beautiful creature she call...

  LOOK!!!!   My new novel for 13yrs+ is finally here! I started writing this story in 2006. Can you believe it? It was one of my early works and had a long genesis as I was learning my craft. I never gave up on it, though and am SO HAPPY that it is finally born! Imagine being haunted by your twin; the twin brother you didn't know you had...   Buy here: The Whispering Stone   So, what's it about? A circle of salt on the ground, a wooden talisman and the ravings of an ancient mad woman – is it enough to free him from being haunted by his dead twin brother? Only the Whispering Stone, the sentinel, high up on Damage Cliffs, has the answer. It’s happened before. It will happen again. There is a debt to pay. A beautiful, sad-eyed girl says she’s his cousin. His best friend says he’s a selfish jerk and the girl he’s in love with won’t speak to him. Welcome to Harry’s world. What about my other books? Here is a list of my other books so far: Junior fiction: The Wobbly ...

  My newest book, ELKWOOD, is available now! It's an urban science fiction novel exploring the idea of transhumanism. Does that sound a bit mad? Well, it may not be that far into the future. What does an ordinary teenage girl have to do with transhumanism, the evolution of the human species into something new? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out!  Charlotte is an unusual heroine because she is not that likeable at first. She is all about faking it - being popular, high fashion and keeping her underlings under control. But when she uncovers a secret about herself, the facade plummets and her carefully constructed world shatters. She is not who she always thought she was. It's going to take guts and sheer force of will to fix this gigantic shift in her life. But at what price? Her beloved father is in danger. A ruthless organisation, Elkwood, is after her DNA. Is she strong enough to do the unthinkable?     Check it out here:  Amazon   Barnes and N...

I am very proud of REBEL, my young adult/adult crossover book about a cocky 17 year old flying hero with a broken wing, set in the lush, mountainous region of Avendor. I love Tolkien's Middle Earth but have resisted the urge to include orcs and elves in this series. Couldn't exclude dragons though... The Meer are a vicious, seafaring tribe who invade the beautiful valley of Avendor and force into slavery the winged inhabitants, Dragonkind. One hundred years later, after many failed attempts to free themselves, Dragonkind put their faith in Reeve, a reckless teenage boy who loves to play pranks and doesn't take anything seriously. Why? You'll have to the read the book to find out... click here for your own print copy: REBEL  

Exciting News!   I am part of a local writing group in Tasmania. We are a diverse bunch of people of all different ages and backgrounds. Many have not been previously published, but now they can say they have! Our 2021 anthology, Ideas Are Like Rabbits is now available online through bookdepository. click here to see it and order!  Ideas Are Like Rabbits from Amazon Ideas are like rabbits from Barnes and Noble So, you may ask, why the strange title? It's a quote from Australian writer John Steinbeck, who described the process of writing as collecting rabbits which pop up, sometime at random moments: "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." What's in the anthology? Lots of short stories and poems from many different writers of all ages! Including some of mine. As an author of children's and young adult books, I have some stories in this collection that have never been published before! Here is a sh...

  I have almost finished the first draft of my current young adult novel, Runaway,  which is the second in the FLIGHT series and my 14th book. The main character is Sye - a beautiful but troubled dragonkind girl with finely scaled golden skin and wings. She is trying to figure out who she is meant to be, what she is supposed to do with her life since the end of the war. She has a dark past and struggles to be close to people. Then a fearsome creature of legend asks for her help, (well, kind of tricks her into helping him) and they embark on a dangerous quest to the icy north, to Shagrath, the White Kingdom. I planned this novel for six months, covering the wall of my studio with scene ideas on index cards, a whiteboard with plot stages, numerous A4 sized notebooks on culture, languages, characters and events. I thought I had enough to get me over the line, keep me on track. But alas! The closer I got to the end the more anxious I became. Because I just couldn't figure out how ...