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Amelia Brennan
@abrennanwrites.bsky.social
🕯️ Writer repped by Isabel Kaufman, Fox Literary
🗽 New Yorker in Germany
🌙 Owner of too many tarot decks
She/her
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
I’m really loving gothic horror novels lately! 🖤

My last read was House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson, which I LOVED. Yesterday I started My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen, and I can’t put it down!

💙📚 #BookSky
March 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A snippet from the villain POV of my novel, What Wakes at Dusk. 🖤⚔️

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
March 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Sen. Mike Lee has introduced the SCREEN ACT, a bill that applies the "harmful to minors" standard used to ban LGBTQ+ books and resources in schools and libraries... and apply it nationally—to the internet.

Under the guise of protecting kids from "pornography"

www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/senat...
With Support from Heritage Action, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online
With Support from Heritage Action, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online
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March 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I stopped trying to write the scenes in my book sequentially, and suddenly I’m making much more progress.

Has anyone else drafted a book non-sequentially?

#WritingCommunity
February 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This industry can be tough sometimes, which makes it all the more gratifying when good things happen for friends, and a beautifully-written, well-crafted book gets the attention it deserves. 🥰

#WritingCommunity
February 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I had the chance to spend some time in Frankfurt earlier this month, and I loved seeing the architecture in the city center. ❄️
February 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Does anyone have recommendations for books that are dark but also funny? Will read any genre.

I love books like this but there is a dearth of them on my shelves.

💙📚 #WritingCommunity
February 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM