Skyla Dawn Cameron
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| Born | September 21, 1982 Bowmanville, ON, Canada |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genres | Urban Fantasy |
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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 is scheduled to be publiushed late in 2007. 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 is currently working on a sequel to River, entitled Wolfee.
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.
Cameron posts a free urban fantasy novel, Children of the Apocalypse on her website on the first of every month. Each installment ends with a video teaser for the next. Her previous serialized novel, Catharsis ran from February 2004 to October 2005. There are also a number of short stories available to read at her site.
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- River (2006)
