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Amelia Brennan
@abrennanwrites.bsky.social
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🕯️ Writer repped by Isabel Kaufman, Fox Literary
🗽 New Yorker in Germany
🌙 CR: Slewfoot
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Amelia Brennan @abrennanwrites.bsky.social · 1d
A snippet from my Medieval WIP featuring witches, Brythonic folklore, and a side of murder.

#WIPSnips
I was letting a spiteful, entirely unnecessary third drop of poison fall into my husband’s chalice, when a sound at the other end of the hall drew my attention. I should have corked the vial and concealed it in my fist. Instead, I froze. Unable to think, unable to breathe, I stared at the iron-studded doors of the hall ike a doe staring down the shaft of an arrow, into the eye of a hunter. I watched, paralyzed with fear, as the doors shuddered open.
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abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I love this book so much. ❤️

It’s a feminist retelling of Morgan le Fay’s story in her own voice. If you like Arthurian legend or feminist retellings, this one is magical—and Keetch’s prose is beautiful. ✨🌿

#BookSky #ArthurianLegend #HistoricalFantasy #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #WitchyReads
The cover of Morgan is my name, by Sophie keetch, featuring a dark haired woman in green robes with a stylized golden medieval background.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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abrennanwrites.bsky.social
A short piece I wrote on substack for an artist friend’s podcast.

The first episode centers on creativity, as well as dark and gothic art. 🖤

#Podcast #Creativity #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #DarkArt #ArtPodcast #GothicArt

substack.com/@obscurasalo...
Obscura Salon (@obscurasalon)
Transmuting Darkness into Art: An Invitation to Haunted Creators   Step into the shadows and join us. Here, creation is a dance with ghosts—a descent into the dark underworld of the self. In the hi...
substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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delilahsdawson.bsky.social
I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I love this book so much. ❤️

It’s a feminist retelling of Morgan le Fay’s story in her own voice. If you like Arthurian legend or feminist retellings, this one is magical—and Keetch’s prose is beautiful. ✨🌿

#BookSky #ArthurianLegend #HistoricalFantasy #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #WitchyReads
The cover of Morgan is my name, by Sophie keetch, featuring a dark haired woman in green robes with a stylized golden medieval background.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
A short piece I wrote on substack for an artist friend’s podcast.

The first episode centers on creativity, as well as dark and gothic art. 🖤

#Podcast #Creativity #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #DarkArt #ArtPodcast #GothicArt

substack.com/@obscurasalo...
Obscura Salon (@obscurasalon)
Transmuting Darkness into Art: An Invitation to Haunted Creators   Step into the shadows and join us. Here, creation is a dance with ghosts—a descent into the dark underworld of the self. In the hi...
substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social
Trope reveal for Nightshade and Oak!

If this sounds like it's your cup of tea then Nightshade and Oak is available for preorder now!
List of tropes arrayed around the cover of Nightshade and Oak: gods & goddesses, celtic folklore, magical quest, historical fantasy, myths and legends, slow burn sapphic, fish out of water.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
A snippet from my Medieval WIP featuring witches, Brythonic folklore, and a side of murder.

#WIPSnips
I was letting a spiteful, entirely unnecessary third drop of poison fall into my husband’s chalice, when a sound at the other end of the hall drew my attention. I should have corked the vial and concealed it in my fist. Instead, I froze. Unable to think, unable to breathe, I stared at the iron-studded doors of the hall ike a doe staring down the shaft of an arrow, into the eye of a hunter. I watched, paralyzed with fear, as the doors shuddered open.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
Witchy TBR. 🌙🕯️ So excited to dive into these!

Any recommendations on which one I should start with?

#BookSky
#WitchyReads
#amreading
#TBR
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I’ve been exploring different genres, but lately all I seem to want to write about are generational curses, and questionable choices made in crumbling old manor houses.

Who else is working on something gothic? 🕯️

#WritingCommunity #WriterSky #amwriting
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I’ve been writing for an NYC artist friend’s new podcast, Obscura Salon.

It’s a deep dive into creativity, neurodivergence, and the shadows we make art from. 🕯️🖤

Link ⬇️

#gothic #creativeprocess #witchy
Obscura salon logo with a dark background and purple flowers, and the podcast name in glowing neon letters
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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rosie-j-potter.bsky.social
Come join us on booked!

A Discord writing community to hone your craft and meet other writers.

🔗⬇️

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Welcome to booked a writing community for writers to grow into their craft Another discord server for writing? Yep! But here’s how we’re different: Booked has a focus on writers building community with an emphasis on growing in their craft We have a forum operating like classifieds to help match with feedback partners In our reading spot, you can host buddy reads Booked will offer workshops on writing, the industry, and happy hours, and writing exhibitions—and it’s all free! This community is open to all writers, whether you write for fun or want to make it a career, at any stage in their journey who want to grow and connect with other writers
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
Halfway through the first chapter, and this book is already living rent-free in my soul.

I can already feel myself becoming insufferably obsessed with it. 🥰

#BookSky #WitchyReads #CurrentlyReading #Horror
Book cover of slewfoot by Brom. A girl with goat legs sitting on a flying broomstick in front of a full moon.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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gunsmile.bsky.social
Reminder that this starts tomorrow! Good luck to everyone doing a writing challenge!
gunsmile.bsky.social Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 24d
Announcing #Writevember!

Whether you're doing classic NaNoWriMo or setting your own writing goals, join the tag for weekly progress updates, accountability, and community. I'll post the week's prompt on each date for folks to quote repost.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #AmWriting
#Writevember a November writing challenge prompt tag hosted by @gunsmile.bsky.social November 1: Introduce yourself, your WIP, and your writing goal for this month. November 8: Weekly progress check-in! Bonus: What inspired your WIP? November 15: Weekly progress check-in! Bonus: If you're a plotter, how did you prepare for this November? If you're a pantser, what initial ideas did you start with? November 22: Weekly progress check-in! Bonus: Share a favorite part of what you've worked on so far. November 30: Monthly wrap-up! How did you do?
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I finished this on audiobook recently and loved it! I really enjoyed the worldbuilding and Ava Reid’s writing (so atmospheric, and perfect for dark academia + gothic fantasy). ✨🌊

💙📚 #BookSky #reading
A picture of the cover of Ava Reid’s A Study in Drowning. A girl stands with her back turned, facing a diamond-paned window. Behind her is an old fashioned desk with a typewriter and various other assorted objects on it. The room is filled with water
October 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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arfrederiksen.bsky.social
Super excited and still very humbled to have my uncanny valley (reprint) short story out in Dark Frequencies and be among amazing names like these! ✨
shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Sep 30
Out today! 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories Vol 1

Featuring stories from nearly 90 authors, this eBook box set contains our previous anthologies and the new anthology Dark Frequencies (stories from our magazine and chapbooks).

shortwavepublishing.com/boxset/short...
A graphic featuring the cover art of 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories, Vol. 1 below the text: "Out Today! 101 Horror Stories from nearly 90 Authors including Nat Cassidy, Adam Cesare, Hailey Piper, Clay McLeod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Eric LaRocca, Gabino Iglecias, Johnny Compton, Laurel Hightower, Brian Keene, Tanya Pell, Jamie Flanagan, Mae Murray, and many others..."
September 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
This book is devastating me in the best possible way. The writing is beautiful, and I can’t put it down.

#BookSky
The cover of Mother of Rome by Lauren J A Bear, featuring a tile mosaic of a woman’s face caught in the jaws of a black wolf with red eyes.
June 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
When you try writing the book from the villain POV and suddenly the characters are a thousand times more interesting and the book finally starts to make SENSE. 😭🖤

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
Things have been busy lately so it took me a while to finish, but this book was so much fun!

#Romantasy #BookSky #reading
The cover of A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen, with a blonde woman on the cover wearing a medieval dress, surrounded by runes and viking style-art.
April 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
My current TBR. So excited to dive into these!

#BookSky #reading
A picture of the spines of the following books: The Road of Bones, by Demi Winters, A Song to Drown Rivers, by Ann Liang, The Crimson Moth by Kristen Ciccarelli, The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon, The Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas, The Thirteenth Child by Erin Craig, An Education in Malice by St Gibson, The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem. A picture of The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon. The cover features colorful artwork in yellow and purple, and the book has purple sprayed edges, with artwork yellow of moons along the pages
April 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
Today I’m revising a pivotal scene that takes place at a masquerade ball, and I couldn’t be more excited. 🖤

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
March 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I read this book a while ago but simply cannot stop thinking about it. I don’t often read sequels…but I might have to with this duology!

So excited for May when her next novel, The Knight and the Moth, will be released!

#BookSky 💙📚 #Romantasy
A picture of One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig. The cover features a woman in a red dress standing on a bridge between two gothic buildings.
March 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I recently finished revising my dark, vampiric romantasy, What Wakes at Dusk!

This book is about rival heirs vying for the throne of a nightbound kingdom—think The Serpent & the Wings of Night meets Castlevania. It features two major romances. 🖤⚔️

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
An eerie moodboard featuring candles, a silver chalice of blood, a woman’s mouth with vampire fangs, a hand holding a sword, and a shadow of a man and a woman kissing. In the center it says “when night comes.” Snippet from the MC’s POV: “ ‘If I were to become your wife, what would stop me from slitting your throat after the wedding?’ ‘One night with me, and you’d forget all about slitting my throat.’ His voice was a warm breath against my ear. I drew back as though I had touched fire, and fell to surveying him through narrowed eyes. An arrogant smile played on his lips—and I foolishly found myself wondering if there was any truth to his boasting.” Snippet from the POV of the villain: “Relief swept through me when I saw her standing beside my sister and the others unharmed. Even with her clothing in tatters and her chestnut hair snarled in wild knots, her beauty was piercing. It was a fierce beauty—not the innocent charm of a rose in a garden, but the ruthless beauty of a thunderstorm or the drowning beauty of the midnight sea.”
March 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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novelgauntlet.com
Need an extra boost to start or finish your novel? Join us in April and run the #NovelGauntlet!

We'll be hosting a #GauntletChat here on BlueSky this Saturday at 2pm EST to kick off two weeks of prep for the event. Hope to see you here and in our discord #writingcommunity!

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Looking to finish your novel this spring? Then run the Novel Gauntlet! Use #NovelGauntlet or visit us on Discord. The frame also includes a purple, green, and pink colored typewriter and some sheets of paper in the background.
March 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I’m listening to this on audiobook and really enjoying it! 🖤 I love Evie and Trystan!

💙📚 #BookSky #Romantasy
The cover of Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer. A purple-gray background with illustrations of medieval weapons, books, potions, a toad, and a raven.
March 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I am so excited for Amalie and her brilliant, cinematic novel! This book is beautifully atmospheric and masterfully plotted—reading it rekindled my love of gothic horror and reminded me of everything I love about the genre!

I cannot wait to see her work on shelves! 😊🥂🎉
arfrederiksen.bsky.social Amalie/AR Frederiksen @arfrederiksen.bsky.social · Mar 11
So, let's make it fully official, shall we? 👀

I’m so happy to now be represented by @ariannasidd.bsky.social from FinePrint!

I had a hard choice to make between several offers for my coastal gothic horror, but my chat with Ari wouldn’t leave my mind, and I knew I'd regret not joining forces! 🌱
A close-up of two sprouting, purple crocuses.
March 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM