Mary Shelley evening, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". It was after midnight before they retired, and unable to sleep, she became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the "grim terrors" of her "waking dream", her ghost story: She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", published in 1818. She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I
Sub Rosa (novel) award rather than for a specific work, but the jury specifically singled out "Sub Rosa" in their judging, saying, "Amber Dawn is an impressive, heart-stopping talent. Her debut novel, "Sub Rosa", is a clear-eyed myth exploring the lives of young women at risk. Both fearless in its narrative and rich in its landscape of metaphor, "Sub Rosa" is a book that refuses to be overlooked. Dawn’s story is not just an attempt to hold the world’s darkness, but to find it some comfort too." "Sub Rosa" was also presented the Lambda Award in 2011, in the “Lesbian Debut Fiction” category.