Dawn Nelson is a Hampshire-based professional storyteller and freelance writer with a passion for fairytales, folklore and fables. She tells her own original tales and traditional stories passed down through the generations. She tells for all ages, in schools, at community events, for local groups and for heritage sites. She runs storytelling clubs for adults and children and she is a consultant for heritage sites, researching, writing and performing stories that interpret history and heritage for families. In addition she has written and self-published a series called the Blake Hetherington Mysteries, which now form the basis of her murder mystery evenings.