Amanda loves to write. No sooner has she inserted the final full stop on the latest novel and she’s already shaping up for the next one. Amanda also loves to teach and to share with her students what she knows, and what she’s still learning about writing. She holds a Master of Arts, and PhD in Creative Writing and is active in the national and international writing worlds, presenting at conferences and writing workshops.
A Single Breath accompanies Whispers in the Wiring on the actual and virtual bookshelves and Hibernia and One Core Belief are due for release soon. In addition to writing fiction, Amanda has two published volumes of the Write This Way series: ‘Time Management for Writers’ and ‘Finding Your Writer’s Voice’, with more volumes on the way.
Amanda is a Melbourne (Australia)-based author, teacher and lifelong student of yoga.
We are enthralled by stories – tales told around the campfire, acted on stage, written down, filmed, painted, danced and sung. Why? Because we want to be entertained, to be inspired, to escape, to enter virtual worlds, to understand and to relate to others like and unlike ourselves.
Quando a primeira carta de ódio chega após a morte de sua paciente Bonnie, a obstetra Dana Cavanagh a lê com um aperto de mão antes de colocá-la ao lado da pequena notícia do veredicto do tribunal: inocente.
Cuando recibe la primera carta de odio a raíz de la muerte de su paciente Bonnie, la obstetra Dana Cavanagh la lee con temor antes de dejarla junto al artículo de sucesos que menciona el veredicto del tribunal: inocente.
You have a story you want to tell. You’ve organised time to do it (Volume 1) and have come a long way in finding your writer’s voice (Volume 2). Now you need to decide whose story you’re going to write, and how make them so interesting that the reader is compelled to follow their journey to the end.
You have a story you want to tell and have organised the time to do it. As you begin, your pen or fingers on the keyboard falter, like a little cough to clear your voice, and there's that nagging doubt that plagues you: Who am I to tell this story? What have I got to say?
When gallery co-manager Audrey Spencer finds herself stranded on Hibernia - a forgotten island just off the mainland coast - she blames an old white house, and her own whimsy.
When the first hate letter arrives in the aftermath of her patient Bonnie's death, obstetrician Dana Cavanagh reads it with shaking hands before placing it next to the small news article from the court's verdict: not guilty.
Delfi Kazan dreams of living in Athens and starring in her favourite soap opera on Greek regional television, but confined to a small island and caring for her widowed father, there’s little chance of ever being discovered by talent scouts.