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A watercolor-style cloud with a colorful, starry background, and a black silhouette of a dragon overlaying the scene.
A watercolor-style illustration of a black dragon flying over a colorful, celestial background with pink, blue, and purple hues, and glowing orbs.
An illustration of a vintage typewriter decorated with pink, white, and purple flowers, including daisies and other small blossoms.
Stylized black and white text saying "Meat Dana" with decorative floral design around the letter "D".

My name is Dana Swift and I am a young adult fantasy author.

I started making up fantasy worlds when I was eleven years old and haven’t stopped since.

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The second character card drawn by the amazing @lumie.draws is Farren Walsh, the other main character of WHEN DEALING WITH DRAGONS! Also! The backgrounds connect in the character cards!!! So so cool!!! Here is line from Farren’s POV, and als
Excited to share the character card of James Murphy, illustrated by the amazing and talented @lumie.draws!!! This card (along with Farren’s) will be part of the preorder campaign for the book if you order from @booksandbooks! Here’s on
BIG NEWS!!! When Dealing with Dragons is officially on @netgalley!!! If you are a bookseller you can download it right away and start reading! If you are reviewer you can officially request it!!! #netgalley #yafantasybooks #yafantasyreads #June30
All the covers I’ve had the privilege to reveal in my career so far! US (English) and German editions! All illustrated by the amazing @charliebowater because I somehow got that lucky!
So excited to share another piece of the preorder campaign (full details coming in the next week or so)! This wonderful art by @lumie.draws is a scene from WHEN DEALING WITH DRAGONS! My favorite scene in fact. 👀 @lumie.draws did such an amazing job
Excited to share my redesigned website!!! @danikacorrall did such an phenomenal job with the layout, illustrations, and transitioning me over from Wordpress to @squarespace! And that’s not even including all the branded canva graphics she made
Last week I picked out a mini bernedoodle puppy from @sweetpeabernedoodles and tomorrow we bring her home!!! Which means tomorrow she will meet Kala, my Goldendoodle! Stay tuned for the video of them meeting! 💖
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