Danika Dinsmore

Danika Dinsmore

Member for 7 months
Novel: Intergalactic: A Pop Space Opera
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
50200 words so far
Winner!
Location:
Vancouver, BC
Hobbies:
writing (duh), reading (duh duh), cycling, coffee and chocolate (those are hobbies, really), collage art
Favorite noveling music:
I prefer to write in a cone of silence
Website:
http://theaccidentalnovelist.wordpress.com/
Occupation:
writing to support my teaching habit
Favorite books or authors:
Neil Gaiman, His Dark Materials trilogy (Philip Pullman), Geek Love (Katherine Dunn), Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger), Robin Hobb, Scott Westerfeld, Paolo Bacigalupi, Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen), Kate DiCamillo, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster), I could go on!

Author bio:

I've been playing with children of all ages for twenty years. I currently live in Vancouver, BC and have taught creative writing, spokenword, and imaginary world building for such places as Learning Through the Arts, Vancouver Film School, Capilano University, ABCDE Sears Drama Festival, and Creative Writing for Children Society.

I'm an accomplished spokenword artist and have performed at hundreds of events from Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival to the Labyrinth Poetry Series in Vienna, Austria. I also write for the screen. The first book in my children’s fantasy adventure series, Brigitta of the White Forest, was adapted from one of my original feature film scripts. Book Two in the series, The Ruins of Noe, is scheduled for release in early 2012.

My novel series site is: thewhiteforest.com