meet the writer
sara dahmen
Sara Dahmen is a multi-time best-selling, multi-award-winning writer, and entrepreneur, as well as the only female coppersmith in America manufacturing and building copper cookware under her company House Copper & Cookware and the founder of Apprentibox®. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Martha Stewart, Food & Wine, House Beautiful, on PBS, the TODAY Show, and many more. She is also a multi-award winning screenwriter and produces film and television projects both as an independent and through her production company House Copper Studios. Her previous producing experience ranges from commercial campaigns for CITGO and the Tourism Department of Belize to running private, corporate and nonprofit events, winning a PRSSA Silver Anvil for best charity event in America. As a writer, she focuses primarily on historical fiction and folklore.
The details
Sara’s historical fiction Flats Junction series (Promontory Press, Inc.) has been critically recognized and has recently been in development for television, including her most recent release in the saga, Trader 1884. Her non-fiction book, Copper, Iron, and Clay: A Smith’s Journey (William Morrow/Harper Collins) about the history, science, use and care of cookware is the first book on the subject since 1894. Her fantasy, Seven Nights in the Dying Castle, was released in 2023, with additional fantasy novels in development to match a fantasy game and television series already optioned. Though Sara does keep the cookware business humming from afar, her focus is currently building new opportunities within the film industry for creatives, film/television producing on not only her own projects but as a hired producer for other companies, running House Copper Studios, a production company, and writing several other novels and series. When not working, she enjoys times with her husband and their three children. (Yes, I really do sleep.)