Maddison Dawn
Maddison Dawn began writing fifteen years ago when a play of hers was produced by her community theater in Oklahoma.
Today, her fiction blends darkness, satire, and an edge of romance, exploring the monstrous, the beautiful, and the blurred line between the two.
Her debut novel, EATING VERONICA, draws from her lived experience with body image, weight, and the complicated ways our bodies shape how the world sees us.
EATING VERONICA
EATING VERONICA is a feminist psychological horror novel about beauty standards and empowerment, following the bloody glow up of a young woman who spawns a carnivorous monster that feeds on her peers, and with each kill brings her closer to attaining the body of her dreams.
Beauty comes with a body count.Veronica is smart. She’s funny. She’s career driven. And she struggles every day with her scale, the mirror, and the way people judge her for her weight. They’re eating her alive.Then one night something claws its way out of her. Something hungry. Soon, corpses begin to pile up. With each kill, Veronica gets thinner. Her cravings disappear. She revels in the compliments, and her newfound confidence sparks a passionate romance with her hot crush—a man who has always seen her as more than just her body.But not all of Veronica is shrinking. The piece of her that crawled off in the night is growing—and getting smarter. Turns out murder isn’t a healthy way to lose weight, to find a boyfriend and keep him alive, or to love the person in the mirror. Veronica realizes she needs to stop what she let out—before it devours what’s left of her.
Publication
US: Hachette (Grand Central Publishing)
UK: Harper-Collins (Fontana)
Release date: 25 May 2027
