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

#WIPSnips
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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
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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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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
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
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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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!
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A snippet from my Medieval WIP featuring witches, Brythonic folklore, and a side of murder.

#WIPSnips
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
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
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
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Come join us on booked!

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

🔗⬇️

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Reminder that this starts tomorrow! Good luck to everyone doing a writing challenge!
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
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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
October 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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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! ✨
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...
September 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This book is devastating me in the best possible way. The writing is beautiful, and I can’t put it down.

#BookSky
June 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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
Things have been busy lately so it took me a while to finish, but this book was so much fun!

#Romantasy #BookSky #reading
April 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My current TBR. So excited to dive into these!

#BookSky #reading
April 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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
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
March 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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
March 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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!

novelgauntlet.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I’m listening to this on audiobook and really enjoying it! 🖤 I love Evie and Trystan!

💙📚 #BookSky #Romantasy
March 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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! 😊🥂🎉
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! 🌱
March 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM