In addition to PosterPit, I'm also watching my phone like a hawk because I made an offer on a house and I REALLY want it...so that's been fun!

🕸️ remnants of a ruined kingdom 🗡️ partnership born of survival 🏳️‍🌈 reluctant-allies-to-lovers yuri 🩸 a madness tied to blood 💀 the enemy is home #PosterPit #F #A #W

Woken from a decade-long enchanted sleep, Lora finds a kingdom drowning in madness and a warrior losing her mind to it, who says Lora is the only one who can save her. Lora doesn't know this (absolutely infuriating) stranger. She makes a fatal promise anyway. #PosterPit #F #A #W

Lora has been trapped in a dying kingdom, bound by promise to a warrior losing her mind to a madness Lora's own people unleashed. She woke to find her way home. She'll stay because the kingdom needs her...and because Yaira is still fighting to remain herself. #PosterPit #F #A #W

Last-minute decided to participate in #PosterPit as a late birthday gift to myself...but my graphic design skills are shaky at best so be prepared to be SICK of my single poster! Best of luck to everyone participating; y'all have some MAD skills!!

The sexual tension between me and my library holds queue could be cut with a knife... #WhereAreMyHolds #IJustWannaRead!!!

I keep catching myself blasting through writing SilkWIP because I feel this pressure to get to the next section in my outline, then the next... And uh. Don't do this. Savor the storytelling journey. You can always make it better later. (This is me @ me. But could also be me @ you. YMMV)

Anyways.

"Amanda, why did you get an MFA?" Well, how else would I have the technical knowledge needed to mash up Western genre fiction convention with the kishotenketsu structure introduced to me by Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. ...that, and because it was fun. And fully funded.

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Sadly, my week ended on a really disappointing note (got treatment to alleviate chronic neck pain, and it worked! ...until I sat down in my car wrong, something in my neck shifted, and it all came roaring back) Trying to write this weekend to redeem the terrible ending to the week. :) #queerwriters

Drove around in a tornado that hit the ground less than 2 miles from where I was driving. I was newly 20, had no life insurance, and only enough common sense to drive into a ditch until it was over.

I would add that seeking to erase any book that "involves gender dysphoria" also seeks to prohibit discussions on gender roles and hierarchy, including cis women, cis men, and in the necessary contexts of race. The only people this bill is for is those at and wanting the very top of the patriarchy.

#WIPWednesday – aka how I remember what day of the week it is. Love writing little snippets that make me scream GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY at the characters I created.

Nothing like walking into the chiropractor's office and hearing, instantly, "I SAW YOUR TED TALK!!!" So delightful. Wild to have breached containment like this.

The rules of food in my house are the same as the rules in SilkWIP: have food, will share. ...Even if the Tagalongs I'm eating now sound a lot better than the food they're eating. #QueerWriters

#UnhingedPit was so much fun yesterday — thank you all for the ❤️s! I hope that means you had a little bit of a giggle at my shitposting about Silk WIP :)

Arcanepunk meets A GAME OF THRONES in MAGE BY BLOOD with fantasy prison, complicity, radicalization, cool tattoos and annoying siblings. No, there’s no incest. Also, there’s an OwnVoices trans MC, and GRRM could never. Literally, he’s not trans, it wouldn’t be #ownvoices #UnhingedPit #F #A #LGBTQ

Happy Sunday to everyone except the person sitting the next table over at the cafe who is shamelessly reading the words on my screen and occasionally shaking their head. I'm sorry my Silk WIP spreadsheet displeases you, ig??

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

Preliminary reader reviews are in! Read CHILD OF SILK AND SHIELD! Who could turn it down after reading these endorsements?? Not pictured: "Tell me you're comping this to Aliette de Bodard" (I am) "Amanda wtf is wrong with you" (so much, narrow it down) #UnhingedPit #F #H #LGBTQ #WIP

"What'cha working on?" uhhhh THE GOBLIN EMPEROR meets TIGANA meets...well, see the image for more. #UnhingedPit #A #F #H #LGBTQ #WIP

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TFW you’re so irritated with your hot traveling companion that you have to crowdsource the gay crashout. Think Hollow Knight: Silksong but with way more yuri. #UnhingedPit #A #F #H #LGBTQ #WIP

Honestly, I would just love to get an agent who’s interested in collaborating on future projects and merging the creative side of authorship with the business side whenever possible! And, also, I want to use my privilege and skills to move the needle on representation in my genres. #QueerWritersChat

Lora wants to make it home to her mothers, but knows she can’t do that unless she can also stand before them able to say she did the right thing. Yaira is mostly going out of spite…and because she has some whimsy left in her. #QueerWritersChat

I’m Amanda (she/her) and I’m working on adult sapphic fantasy with horror elements — basically it’s about what happens when your cursed slumber, and you have to deal with that fallout PLUS a really annoying swordswoman. And maybe she’s hot. That’s not important. #QueerWritersChat

We try to minimize our political content here but PLEASE educate yourself about your local politics, at least enough to vote for local politicians who aren't actively trying to harm marginalized communities (because there isn't always someone who really has your best interests at heart)

Now querying: THE GRAVES WE DIG, featuring: 🪦A girl ignoring her supernatural gifts 🪦A serial killer 🪦Victims who won't stop leading her to their bodies 🪦A found family hunting things that go bump in the night (even if it may be one of their own...) #querying #ya #paranormal

I'm testing out a spreadsheet outlining method similar to what I used for my masters thesis – so far, it's actually working better than I expected! This is the first time any of my works contain an entire romance subplot/arc, so having the subplot tracking really helps! #WeeknightWriters

Receiving unhinged Google Docs/Word comments from my editors - life is too short to ONLY take your work seriously! #WeeknightWriters

I have neurological symptoms as a result of my chronic illnesses that make it challenging to hold onto big-picture AND line-level feedback at the same time. It's always stressful to have to synthesize all that feedback from all the editors - but never impossible! #WeeknightWriters

Far from my first time editing a book – I had the privilege of editing @katlynzehnacker.bsky.social's work quite recently! – but it's the first time in a hot minute I've edited a MS of my own. Very different energy. #WeeknightWriters

Yeeeees and no. SilkWIP will likely be done at the end of March, so hopefully the brave souls willing to help with the alpha reads and subsequent beta reads will be available between March-May. I'd love to start querying this summer, but want to respect their time. #WeeknightWriters

Hey #WeeknightWriters! I'm Amanda (she/her) and I'm currently working on what I call SilkWIP (adult fantasy/horror) about surviving a haunting when it lives within you and the homoeroticism of someone else's blood in your mouth. (aka RED SCHOLAR’S WAKE x THIS GILDED ABYSS x Hollow Knight: Silksong.)

Someone said "oh October's almost over!" and my brain was like "wdym it's like October 11" It is October 21. FUUUUCK!!!!

What happens when your mom wants to promote you and your sister hates it? You take a job involving burglarizing your dead ex's office...only she's alive, pissed & armed with deadly secrets. Pro tip: Don't be too good at your job. 6 OF CROWS x ARCANE but messier. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

FURY ROAD x STATION 11 Out-of-context EAT OUR DUST: 💊”Romanticizing the end of the world is great only if you don’t regularly need a 24-hour pharmacy.” 🚘 “If the world’s going to end, that means I lost the race. End of story.” 🛣️ “I’m not afraid of death. Just of going back.” #DVPit #A #SF #CI

Clara thought her biggest problems were her impending promotion and her younger sister. Then she burglarized her dead ex-girlfriend's office & discovered Amaya's very much alive—and hunting her. Now Clara must choose: unravel a conspiracy or lose her twice. VIOLENT DELIGHTS x ARCANE. #DVPit #A #SF

After learning how to stop the end of the world, Jess races to expose the govt researchers who buried the truth – before the climate apocalypse takes out her friends and prevents her from carrying on her mentor’s legacy. BEGINNING AT THE END x STATION 11 #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

A BEGINNING AT THE END x STATION 11 Surviving the apocalypse while chronically ill? Hard. Surviving the apocalypse while driving cross-country to expose govt researchers who knew how to stop it and chose not to? …Yeah, Jess has her work cut out for her. #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

Gang heir vs tech syndicate Dead girlfriend who isn't dead Biometric implants that rewrite identities Clara's heist was supposed to secure power. Instead, it tore open a conspiracy that could destroy the city's underclass for good. ...Oops. SIX OF CROWS meets ARCANE. #DVPit #A #SF #LGBT

FURY ROAD x STATION 11 After learning the apocalypse is reversible, Jess races to expose what govt scientists tried to hide. As people who’d rather keep the truth quiet close in, she has to choose: remain silent & complicit, or carry on a legacy she’s not sure she wants. #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

After learning it's possible to stop a climate disaster that will end the world as we know it, Jess races (literally) to expose the government researchers who buried the truth – before she or her mentor dies in the process. Get in, losers. We're canceling the apocalypse. #DVPit #A #SF #CI #LGBT

Got on my walking pad, started writing...and then looked down two hours later to realize I walked about 4 miles and cannot feel my toes. I feel like this is probably a metaphor for something...

After being awoken from a cursed sleep and cut free from her silken chains, Lora must work with the half-mad swordswoman who set her free to save the swordswoman’s kingdom from a mysterious infection — before the madness claims them as its final two victims. #WeeknightWriters

I’m going to aim for word count — it’s the easiest metric for me to track (and also work into my project planning system)! #WeeknightWriters

ADHD stresses me out in so many ways, but one benefit is that I can drink an entire (not decaf) latte at 8 pm and know I'll still be able to sleep in 3 hours. It's the little things...

Fantasy with speculative + horror elements! I'm really drawn to fantasy stories with a taste of the uncanny + also inspired by Scottish mythology (shoutout to my great-aunt Elaine for that one). #WeeknightWriters

I've historically been a fairly solitary writer, but it's always fun to dip into a broader community and be a hype person for other folks. Storytelling doesn't exist without community + being part of that tradition through hype and being a listening ear is really important to me! #WeeknightWriters