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
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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.
“people are allowed to dislike things” WRONG. no one is allowed to dislike Bonnie Bennett.
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 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.
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Image shows the cover of No Ones Gonna Take Her Soul Away by Amanda Weaver
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
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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.
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.”
Thank you friend!
Roses are red 🌹
June’s my month of birth ♊️
Am I the only one ready for 👀
Aliens to invade earth? 🛸
A drawing of an open wolf mouth behind shiny text that says: “WET SCREAMS: A Monsterfucker Anthology”
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.
👹🖤👻📚
it goes like this,
the fourth, the fifth,
you’d write less drafts
with a synopsis.
Thought for the Day…
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"
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? 🤓
Fr! We can’t take no more sh*t rn
So glad you're enjoying our podcast!
www.lifewritingpodcast.com
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
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
Cover of No One's Gonna Take Her Soul Away by Amanda B. Weaver. A Black woman wears a gold coloured top with cutouts on her chest, golden rectangle earrings, and gold eye shadow. A tear falls from her eye. 3 Brown hands covered in blood are holding on to her head. A fourth hand is gracing her bottom lip with the index finger.
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 💙📚 🌈📚
Book cover of In The House of Transcendence by Amanda B. Weaver. Shown: Torso of a Black woman. She wears a red strappy dress. Looks straight ahead. In her right hand, she's holding up a skull that has green smoke coming out of its right eye socket. The woman is wearing a pearl necklace that's been wrapped around her neck trice and a golden chain with a red crystal. Her 3c/4a type hair is done in a half down do, with two buns on top of her head. She wears a flower crown consisting of 3 white flowers. She smirks.
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
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
Hey girl! How you doing?!
A book review graphic for Flamboyants by George M. Johnson made by @dbg.was.here on Instagram. This is a young adult nonfiction of illustrated biographies, 144 pages long and 2 hours in audiobook format. The featured quote is “The reality, however, is that queerness is as old as heterosexuality.” The summary reads: "Trans and queer people didn’t appear out of nowhere in the last 30 years. We’ve always been here. Just take a look at the Black revolutionaries of the Harlem Renaissance for proof. In Flamboyants, we celebrate fourteen Black LGBTQ+ icons and artists who lived boldly so generations after them could thrive. As Johnson expresses, “how do you know where you are going if you don’t even know where your people have been?” My verdict: Get in loser, we’re inspired! Encouraging, informative, candid.
A book review graphic for Flamboyants by George M. Johnson made by @dbg.was.here on Instagram. The slide details a bulleted list of “what I learned,” which reads: “The Harlem Renaissance, when Black artists took risks following WWI, was one of the queerest periods in world history. Learning about Alain Locke and Richard Bruce Nugent, two gay Black writers who should be revered as legendary voices. Ballroom has been around since the 1800s! Langston Hughes wrote about a ball with cross-dressing attendees.” At the bottom, it reads: Did you have a different takeaway? What were your favorite parts? I’d love to know what you think. If you’re interested in constructive discussion on any of the books I’ve shared, meet me on Instagram.
A book review graphic for Flamboyants by George M. Johnson made by @dbg.was.here on Instagram. The slide details a bulleted list of “what you’ll love,” which reads: “Essays that prove Black queer people have been at the forefront of culture and creativity since the beginning. Celebrating legendary Black leaders who were mistreated or forced to hide in their time. Meeting Zora Neale Hurston, a Black writer who has had a recent resurgence among Black visionaries after being nearly erased from history.” At the bottom, it reads: you check this out? What content inspires you to read? I’d love to know what you think. If you’re interested in constructive discussion on any of the books I’ve shared, meet me on Instagram.
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)
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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?!
Post 4 great horror performances that didn’t get nominated for an Oscar. It’s forever Lupita Nyong’o for Us (and a Quiet Place if we are real) and Toni Collette for Hereditary, but also:
-Lilly-Rose Depp for Nosferatu
-Wunmi Mosaku for His House
-Mia Goth for Pearl
-Anya-Taylor Joy for The VVitch
*ahem* allow me to pop my sh*t:
I’m an indie author. My work is dark fantasy/ horror that centers Black and queer characters. Here are 2 📚 for you to consume:
In the House of Transcendence (southern gothic fantasy)
No One’s Gonna Take Her Soul Away (gory Gothic horror)
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