Dawn Nelson was born in the East End of Glasgow and spent her very early years in Shawlands before the family moved to Neilston, where Dawn and her two sisters grew up.
On leaving school, Dawn became a trainee reporter, working for various newspapers in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.
Dawn has always written and still has a file of books she wrote as a child. She loves books and her favourite pastime is sitting in a large bookstore, cup of tea and muffin to hand, reading a fantastic new novel.
She lives with her husband and two young children.
Morag wondered just what she had got herself into.
It had seemed like a good idea to leave Jermy and Moira and join Bertie and Aldiss on their quest, but now she wasn’t so sure. She really had no idea what to expect and this realisation made her a little uncomfortable, and she began to feel a tiny bit scared.
It was starting to dawn on her that she may have permanently left behind everything safe and understandable for a world full of talking animals and strange dark magic.
Suddenly she was afraid of the dangers she could face.
DarkIsle
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-905537-04-4
Published April 30th 2008 £6.99
Also available in Hardback 288 pp
ISBN: 978-1-905537-05-1
Published September 2007 £12.99
Strident Publishing are proud to announce that DarkIsle by D A Nelson has been shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books in the category for 8-11 year olds.
It's a magical world if you know where to look.
For 10-year-old Morag, there's nothing magical about the cellar of her cruel foster parents' home. But that's where she meets Aldiss, a talking rat, and his resourceful companion, Bertie the dodo. She jumps at the chance to run away and join them on their race against time to save their homeland from an evil warlock named Devlish, who is intent on destroying it. But first, Bertie and Aldiss will need to stock bickering long enough to free the only guide who knows where to find Devlish: Shona, a dragon who's been turned to stone.
Together, these four friends begin their journey to a mysterious dark island beyond the horizon, where danger and glory await - along with clues to the disappearance of Morag's parents, whose destiny seems somehow linked to her own...
Terrifying, touching and funny, DarkIsle is a vivid and fast-paced novel of captivating originality.
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