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At a Glance
- Author: Wendy Cheairs, full-time indie author based in New Mexico
- W.M. Dawson: paranormal romance and academy fantasy (Richmond Academy Series, Not As Written trilogy)
- Wendy Cheairs: contemporary and MC romance, paranormal romance, epic fantasy, and horror
- Sage Knight: werewolf stories
- Anthologies: contributor to 13 anthologies, including Eleanor Merry’s Holiday Horror Collection and the Seasons of Magic series
- Also: creator of the Blueprint Series of mini-courses for fiction authors
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Short Bios
For programs, posters, and introductions.
Wendy Cheairs writes horror, fantasy, urban fantasy, and romance from a desert writing cave in New Mexico, where she lives with her husband and tailless cats. She also writes as W.M. Dawson and Sage Knight.
W.M. Dawson writes paranormal romance and academy fantasy: magic with rules, monsters with manners, and characters who almost always make the worse decision.
Sage Knight writes werewolf stories full of pack loyalty, primal pull, and romance with teeth.
Full Bios
Wendy Cheairs: Wendy Cheairs lives with her husband and tailless cats, who all think they run the house. Now that she is writing full-time, her fiction runs the gamut of horror, fantasy, urban fantasy, and romance to whatever comes to mind in her over-caffeinated brain. Raised in the southwestern part of America, she hides from the desert sun in the writing cave, avoiding setting herself ablaze as a redhead. She also writes under W.M. Dawson and Sage Knight.
W.M. Dawson: W.M. Dawson writes from a desert writing cave, mostly to avoid combusting as a redhead in the sun. Her stories live in the space between paranormal, academy fantasy, and romance — magic with rules, monsters with manners, and characters who almost always make the worse decision. She shares her house (and her plotting sessions) with her husband and a small committee of tailless cats who are, by unanimous vote, in charge.
Sage Knight: Sage Knight writes stories where the wolf is never far from the surface — pack loyalty, primal pull, and romance with teeth. She lives in the desert Southwest with her husband and a household of tailless cats who’d never admit to being outranked by anything, wolf or otherwise. When she’s not writing, she’s hiding from the sun as a redhead who burns approximately on contact.
Featured Books
- The Richmond Academy Series (W.M. Dawson): five-book paranormal academy fantasy; finale Trial by Spirit releases December 15, 2026
- Not As Written (W.M. Dawson): paranormal romance trilogy; Book 2, Not Your Book Boyfriend, releases December 1, 2026
- Fallon (Wendy Cheairs): sapphic MC romantic suspense, Devil’s Handmaidens MC: New Mexico Chapter
- Staghelm (Wendy Cheairs): standalone epic fantasy
- Frozen War (Sage Knight): Norse-myth werewolf story
Available For
Book signings and conventions · Podcast and blog interviews · Library and bookstore events · Panels on indie publishing, writing across pen names, and author marketing
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