Amanda B Weaver
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
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I write magical, scary sh*t for queer Black folks. My books ➡️ https://linktr.ee/Amandabweaver
I write magical, scary sh*t for queer Black folks. My books ➡️ https://linktr.ee/Amandabweaver
The first edition of Don't Be So Scary. Is out! It’s about:
My creative process
Every horror subgenre
The world at large and how it impacts the creative process
Plus exclusive content and writing updates for subscribers. So join the Don't Be So Scary substack:
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My creative process
Every horror subgenre
The world at large and how it impacts the creative process
Plus exclusive content and writing updates for subscribers. So join the Don't Be So Scary substack:
open.substack.com/pub/dontbeso...
Allow Me to (Re)Introduce Myself
Ayyy. It’s been about two years since we last spoke, so this newsletter is less a catch-up and more a reintroduction to my day-ones and an intro to my new subs.Don't Be So Scary.
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March 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The first edition of Don't Be So Scary. Is out! It’s about:
My creative process
Every horror subgenre
The world at large and how it impacts the creative process
Plus exclusive content and writing updates for subscribers. So join the Don't Be So Scary substack:
open.substack.com/pub/dontbeso...
My creative process
Every horror subgenre
The world at large and how it impacts the creative process
Plus exclusive content and writing updates for subscribers. So join the Don't Be So Scary substack:
open.substack.com/pub/dontbeso...
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"The left is losing because it is too left" motherfuckers, y'all been crawling to the right on your hands and knees for decades and all it got you is rug burns.
March 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"The left is losing because it is too left" motherfuckers, y'all been crawling to the right on your hands and knees for decades and all it got you is rug burns.
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“people are allowed to dislike things” WRONG. no one is allowed to dislike Bonnie Bennett.
March 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“people are allowed to dislike things” WRONG. no one is allowed to dislike Bonnie Bennett.
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First of all, this is correct and I need everyone to know it.
“people are allowed to dislike things” WRONG. no one is allowed to dislike buffy summers
March 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
First of all, this is correct and I need everyone to know it.
Age yourself with your first gateway horror.
I got bribed by my brother, who let me watch Chucky if I didn’t tell our parents his girlfriend was at the crib.
I got bribed by my brother, who let me watch Chucky if I didn’t tell our parents his girlfriend was at the crib.
March 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Age yourself with your first gateway horror.
I got bribed by my brother, who let me watch Chucky if I didn’t tell our parents his girlfriend was at the crib.
I got bribed by my brother, who let me watch Chucky if I didn’t tell our parents his girlfriend was at the crib.
I posted my first YT video in 2 years, talking about why I’m going after my dream of screenwriting and filmmaking even as America slides off the mountain, like a gawdy McMansion built on horse manure instead of bedrock.
Check it out: youtu.be/OeNrmJ0EyjA?...
Check it out: youtu.be/OeNrmJ0EyjA?...
America's Crumbling, But I'm Still Chasing My Dreams.
YouTube video by Amanda B Weaver
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February 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I posted my first YT video in 2 years, talking about why I’m going after my dream of screenwriting and filmmaking even as America slides off the mountain, like a gawdy McMansion built on horse manure instead of bedrock.
Check it out: youtu.be/OeNrmJ0EyjA?...
Check it out: youtu.be/OeNrmJ0EyjA?...
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If you are excited for Katabasis by RF Kuang, here is a must read. No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away is about a Black woman who is condemned to the seventh level of hell unjustly and must band together with a werewolf a vampire and a demon to escape. You need this book
bookshop.org/a/87137/9781...
bookshop.org/a/87137/9781...
February 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If you are excited for Katabasis by RF Kuang, here is a must read. No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away is about a Black woman who is condemned to the seventh level of hell unjustly and must band together with a werewolf a vampire and a demon to escape. You need this book
bookshop.org/a/87137/9781...
bookshop.org/a/87137/9781...
If you read fantasy or horror & want to support a queer Black author go here: linktr.ee/Amandabweaver
In the House of Transcendence - a Southern gothic fantasy, a love child of P-Valley & Pose.
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- a horrific love child of Dante’s Inferno & The Wizard of Oz.
In the House of Transcendence - a Southern gothic fantasy, a love child of P-Valley & Pose.
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- a horrific love child of Dante’s Inferno & The Wizard of Oz.
February 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If you read fantasy or horror & want to support a queer Black author go here: linktr.ee/Amandabweaver
In the House of Transcendence - a Southern gothic fantasy, a love child of P-Valley & Pose.
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- a horrific love child of Dante’s Inferno & The Wizard of Oz.
In the House of Transcendence - a Southern gothic fantasy, a love child of P-Valley & Pose.
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- a horrific love child of Dante’s Inferno & The Wizard of Oz.
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Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.”
“If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”
“If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”
February 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.”
“If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”
“If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”
Roses are red 🌹
June’s my month of birth ♊️
Am I the only one ready for 👀
Aliens to invade earth? 🛸
June’s my month of birth ♊️
Am I the only one ready for 👀
Aliens to invade earth? 🛸
February 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Roses are red 🌹
June’s my month of birth ♊️
Am I the only one ready for 👀
Aliens to invade earth? 🛸
June’s my month of birth ♊️
Am I the only one ready for 👀
Aliens to invade earth? 🛸
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MIDNIGHT!
The Cover Reveal & Submission call for WET SCREAMS, an anthology of Monster Erotica, goes live!
We’re looking for stories that’ll have us sleepless and breathing heavy. We want to be disturbingly turned on.
Details Feb. 14th
Happy Valentine’s Day, Monster Lovers.
👹🖤👻📚
The Cover Reveal & Submission call for WET SCREAMS, an anthology of Monster Erotica, goes live!
We’re looking for stories that’ll have us sleepless and breathing heavy. We want to be disturbingly turned on.
Details Feb. 14th
Happy Valentine’s Day, Monster Lovers.
👹🖤👻📚
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
MIDNIGHT!
The Cover Reveal & Submission call for WET SCREAMS, an anthology of Monster Erotica, goes live!
We’re looking for stories that’ll have us sleepless and breathing heavy. We want to be disturbingly turned on.
Details Feb. 14th
Happy Valentine’s Day, Monster Lovers.
👹🖤👻📚
The Cover Reveal & Submission call for WET SCREAMS, an anthology of Monster Erotica, goes live!
We’re looking for stories that’ll have us sleepless and breathing heavy. We want to be disturbingly turned on.
Details Feb. 14th
Happy Valentine’s Day, Monster Lovers.
👹🖤👻📚
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it goes like this,
the fourth, the fifth,
you’d write less drafts
with a synopsis.
the fourth, the fifth,
you’d write less drafts
with a synopsis.
February 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
it goes like this,
the fourth, the fifth,
you’d write less drafts
with a synopsis.
the fourth, the fifth,
you’d write less drafts
with a synopsis.
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Thought for the Day…
February 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Thought for the Day…
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Right wing wet rags blathering about the halftime show: "Nobody knows who this is"
Odysseus: "Yes, I'm familiar with the great poet Kendrick Lamar and his duel with a drake, as are many in my kingdom Ithaca and across the world"
Odysseus: "Yes, I'm familiar with the great poet Kendrick Lamar and his duel with a drake, as are many in my kingdom Ithaca and across the world"
February 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Right wing wet rags blathering about the halftime show: "Nobody knows who this is"
Odysseus: "Yes, I'm familiar with the great poet Kendrick Lamar and his duel with a drake, as are many in my kingdom Ithaca and across the world"
Odysseus: "Yes, I'm familiar with the great poet Kendrick Lamar and his duel with a drake, as are many in my kingdom Ithaca and across the world"
Loser behavior. People who create art shouldn’t go w/o pay or health insurance bc these companies RUN BY RICH PEOPLE set up these systems that don’t benefit the people ACTUALLY doing the labor. Y’all get it when it comes to manufacturing or the like but somehow think art should be created for free.
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February 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Loser behavior. People who create art shouldn’t go w/o pay or health insurance bc these companies RUN BY RICH PEOPLE set up these systems that don’t benefit the people ACTUALLY doing the labor. Y’all get it when it comes to manufacturing or the like but somehow think art should be created for free.
Hi, hello. Uh… what’re y’all reading these days? 🤓
February 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hi, hello. Uh… what’re y’all reading these days? 🤓
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February 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
4 books to read if you love Abracadabra by Lady Gaga:
Gideon the Ninth-Tamsyn Muir
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- by me
Death Among the Stars by @clockhartwrite.bsky.social
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
Gideon the Ninth-Tamsyn Muir
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- by me
Death Among the Stars by @clockhartwrite.bsky.social
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
February 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
4 books to read if you love Abracadabra by Lady Gaga:
Gideon the Ninth-Tamsyn Muir
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- by me
Death Among the Stars by @clockhartwrite.bsky.social
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
Gideon the Ninth-Tamsyn Muir
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away- by me
Death Among the Stars by @clockhartwrite.bsky.social
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea
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Thank you! I also have a host of Black authors to add if you haven't already: @clockhartwrite.bsky.social @celesteharte.bsky.social @purviswrites.bsky.social @amandabweaver.bsky.social @orichardsauthor.bsky.social @shakirrashaan.bsky.social @dlhowardwrites.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thank you! I also have a host of Black authors to add if you haven't already: @clockhartwrite.bsky.social @celesteharte.bsky.social @purviswrites.bsky.social @amandabweaver.bsky.social @orichardsauthor.bsky.social @shakirrashaan.bsky.social @dlhowardwrites.bsky.social
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No One's Gonna Take Her Soul Away by Amanda B. Weaver @amandabweaver.bsky.social
Dantes Inferno meets The Wiz. Amanda's an indie author. This was one of my favourite reads of '24
#blacksky #blackbooksky #horrorbooksky 💙📚 🌈📚
Dantes Inferno meets The Wiz. Amanda's an indie author. This was one of my favourite reads of '24
#blacksky #blackbooksky #horrorbooksky 💙📚 🌈📚
February 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
No One's Gonna Take Her Soul Away by Amanda B. Weaver @amandabweaver.bsky.social
Dantes Inferno meets The Wiz. Amanda's an indie author. This was one of my favourite reads of '24
#blacksky #blackbooksky #horrorbooksky 💙📚 🌈📚
Dantes Inferno meets The Wiz. Amanda's an indie author. This was one of my favourite reads of '24
#blacksky #blackbooksky #horrorbooksky 💙📚 🌈📚
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She wondered if anyone would ever tell the story of a queer Black princess solving a murder mystery. - Amanda B. Weaver (formerly known as Amanda Ross), In The House of Transcendence
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
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#booksky #blackbooksky #queerbooks #blackindieauthor
#indieauthor
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
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#booksky #blackbooksky #queerbooks #blackindieauthor
#indieauthor
February 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
She wondered if anyone would ever tell the story of a queer Black princess solving a murder mystery. - Amanda B. Weaver (formerly known as Amanda Ross), In The House of Transcendence
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
💙📚 🌈📚 🪐📚
#booksky #blackbooksky #queerbooks #blackindieauthor
#indieauthor
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
💙📚 🌈📚 🪐📚
#booksky #blackbooksky #queerbooks #blackindieauthor
#indieauthor
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Here are a few black indie authors you can start with!
@ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
@shamekawrites.bsky.social
@tamarajeree.bsky.social
@mfisherauthor.bsky.social
@chelseyjleon.bsky.social
@ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
@shamekawrites.bsky.social
@tamarajeree.bsky.social
@mfisherauthor.bsky.social
@chelseyjleon.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Here are a few black indie authors you can start with!
@ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
@shamekawrites.bsky.social
@tamarajeree.bsky.social
@mfisherauthor.bsky.social
@chelseyjleon.bsky.social
@ingloriousgigi.bsky.social
@amandabweaver.bsky.social
@shamekawrites.bsky.social
@tamarajeree.bsky.social
@mfisherauthor.bsky.social
@chelseyjleon.bsky.social
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Let’s be clear: Black queer history IS Black History! Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed.
George M. Johnson said, “We are too disconnected from our roots” and they're right. Flamboyants is a great start toward correcting that. (1/3)
💙📚🏳️🌈🚀
George M. Johnson said, “We are too disconnected from our roots” and they're right. Flamboyants is a great start toward correcting that. (1/3)
💙📚🏳️🌈🚀
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Let’s be clear: Black queer history IS Black History! Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed.
George M. Johnson said, “We are too disconnected from our roots” and they're right. Flamboyants is a great start toward correcting that. (1/3)
💙📚🏳️🌈🚀
George M. Johnson said, “We are too disconnected from our roots” and they're right. Flamboyants is a great start toward correcting that. (1/3)
💙📚🏳️🌈🚀
Free peek at the first chapter of No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away, a book you should definitely read if you loved any of the following: Nosferatu, Dante’s Inferno, Hellraiser, and The Wizard of Oz. linktr.ee/Amandabweaver
January 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Free peek at the first chapter of No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away, a book you should definitely read if you loved any of the following: Nosferatu, Dante’s Inferno, Hellraiser, and The Wizard of Oz. linktr.ee/Amandabweaver
I’m starting to post more on here and I’d love to connect with writers of all types, since I write both books and screenplays. Where my fellow scribes at?!
January 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’m starting to post more on here and I’d love to connect with writers of all types, since I write both books and screenplays. Where my fellow scribes at?!