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Amanda M. Blake

~ Of fairy tales and tentacles

Amanda M. Blake

Tag Archives: nature red in tooth and claw

Lasso the moon: Friday Update

28 Friday Feb 2025

Posted by amandamblake in A Few Thoughts, Novels, Series, Short Stories

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eco horror, editing, horrific scribblings, horrific scribes, meridian, nature red in tooth and claw, short story, weed killer

News:

My horror story “Weed Killer,” about a large weed growing outside a downtown donut shop, is free to read at Horrific Scribes for their Horrific Scribblings program, which is more like a series of curated exhibits rather than anthologies or individual pieces. “Weed Killer” is one of their first pieces; they’re just getting started. It’ll be interesting to see where this goes.

Signed a few more contracts, received a few honorariums, edited another short story for publication.

Works in Progress:

Tattered & Torn (Meridian 6) edits are still slow going, but I think I’m gaining a little momentum. It’s hard when I’m afraid that these books and others are going to become verboten soon (in my state and country), but I’ve got to proceed as though we still have freedom of speech and expression. As though reason will prevail. God, it’s such a precarious place to be.

Books I’m Reading:

The Fisherman by John Langan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause

Things I’m Listening To:

The Blacklist playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Cuckoo
Nightbitch
White Collar series (finished)
Celebrity Jeopardy series
Grey’s Anatomy series
The Equalizer series
S.W.A.T. series
The Irrational series
Will Trent series
Ghosts series
Home Town series
Watson series
The Hunting Party series
NCIS series
Queer Eye series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine series

Cover Reveal: OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER

30 Tuesday May 2023

Posted by amandamblake in Novels

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cover reveal, creature feature, horror, nature red in tooth and claw, out of curiosity and hunger

Here’s my beautiful cover for OOCAH, from the premade collection at roosterrepublicpress.com. It doesn’t represent the featured creature itself, but I wanted something both naturalistic (like old anatomy drawings) and distorted. I was enchanted by the many legs and the weirdness of the mouth parts.

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