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About Me

I am a visual artist and author, living in the rollercoaster climes of Minnesota with my sweetheart and two crazy cats.

Check out my website: www.danambaird.com for more on my artwork and my young adult fantasy novels - The Spell Keeper and Veil of Whispers, both available through Sam's Dot Publishing.

Check out both novels here!

Both books are available for purchase at the Genremall, a site that tailors to small genre presses


Current projects: Still house hunting, knee-deep in the Renaissance Festival, and working on book three of the Spell Keeper series.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Art lovers, avid readers, and fellow writers.
In an ideal world, I'd love to meet David Byrne - because the man's a genius, and Louise Erdrich - to tell her how beautiful her writing is.

My Blog

back out of the ether for an announcement; BOOK RELEASE

Dana M. Baird and Sams Dot Publishing are proud to announce the release of Danas newest novel, Veil of Whispers. In this highly anticipated sequel to The Spell Keeper, eight years have passed sin...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:47:00 GMT

Second Announcement: Book Reading Feb 27th

I will be at DreamHaven Books on February 27 at 6:30 pm, reading excepts from my young adult fantasy novel, The Spell Keeper, and from its upcoming sequel, Veil of Whispers. An authors reception wil...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:09:00 GMT

Announcement: - February Art Show

For anyone who is out in the Central MN neck of the woods:My artwork is being shown at Lost Lake Design in Little Falls, MN through the month of February. Owned by Stacy Zeigler, a very cool lady who...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:07:00 GMT

Progress update on Book 2 of the Tevious Series

Since August, I have been working on revisions to Veil of Whispers, the second book of my YA fantasy series (evenings and weekends are just not long enough!)I submitted the first three chapters to my ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:09:00 GMT

A painful lesson learned

The doctors call it "Runner's Knee&" While taking dance in high school, I learned that I'm missing some ligaments in the back of my kneecaps  therefore, they are loose and like to dislocate themselv...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:27:00 GMT

CONvergence Report

I detailed my CONvergence experience on my Live Journal blog, but thought I would sum up the highlights here as well: I am not unfamiliar with the convention scene.  I did attend some i...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:04:00 GMT

But Im the exception...

Last night, Eric and I were watching a news segment about bike riders who fail to obey certain rules of the road (in particular, they were blowing through stop signs and an occasional red light.) &nbs...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:03:00 GMT

The Universe consipres against me...

I have been working on some little "blurbs" for my website that are related to the land I created in The Spell Keeper, but the universe seems to be against it. Early last week, I worked on it ove...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:57:00 GMT

Minicon: feelin the love...

Minicon was a blast!  My publisher sold a respectable number of copies, my readings went over well, and I met some really great people.  For all my jitters, I was welcomed warmly by&nbs...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:20:00 GMT

Preparing for Minicon

I’ve been spending the last couple of days preparing for Minicon next weekend, where I will be participating in the art show, doing some readings, and generally socializing.  I’m gett...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:32:00 GMT