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Amelia Brennan
@abrennanwrites.bsky.social
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🕯️ Writer repped by Isabel Kaufman, Fox Literary
🗽 New Yorker in Germany
🌙 Owner of too many tarot decks
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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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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 · 21d
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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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
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
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
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A snippet from the villain POV of my novel, What Wakes at Dusk. 🖤⚔️

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
Eyes flashing with fury, she reached for her boot and unsheathed a stake. Before she had the chance to stab me for what I’d said, I tore it out of her hand and seized her by the waist, pressing the point of the stake to her heart. I could feel every warm, soft curve of her pressing into me, every ragged rise and fall of her breath. Her hair, lustrous and silken, smelled of wildflowers. I was lost. I let the stake fall to the ground
March 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
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
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
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
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
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
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
I had the chance to spend some time in Frankfurt earlier this month, and I loved seeing the architecture in the city center. ❄️
A picture of a beige building in a distinctive German architectural style set against a gray sky. A picture of three timber-framed buildings in Frankfurt city center, against a gray sky. Another timber-framed building in Frankfurt city center, with reddish-brown framing and white walls.
February 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
abrennanwrites.bsky.social
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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thereclaimed.bsky.social
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