

She lives in Omaha with her spouse and three dogs in the middle of a city park. Dawson has published shorter works in places such as F&SF, Lightspeed, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. By purchasing any eBook from our store, you are not only helping support our website, but you are helping small businesses thrive in a market traditionally dominated by large companies.

Title: Sneak Peek for The First Bright ThingĬountries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countriesįormat: mobi,ePub | Learn More about our supported formatsĭragonmount is a proud provider of DRM-free eBooks. The First Bright Thing is her first novel. Having earned a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul and an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast, Dawson works at Nebraska Writers Collective and other Midwestern nonprofits that teach kids the power of performance and storytelling. Rin's circus has something he wants, and he won't stop until it's his.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Ībout the AuthorJ.R. It takes the form of another circus, with tents as black as midnight and a ringmaster who rules over his troupe with a dangerous power.

And Rin's past creeps closer every day, a malevolent shadow she can’t fully escape. The future holds an impending war that the Sparks can see barrelling toward their show and everyone in it. With the world still reeling from World War I, Rin and her troupe – the Circus of the Fantasticals – travel the midwest, offering a single night of enchantment and respite to all who step into their Big Top.īut threats come at Rin from all sides. And the circus they lead is a rare home and safe haven for magical misfits and outcasts, known as Sparks. Ringmaster – Rin, to those who know her best – can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. "This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."―Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?
