Amanda L. Doyle

Still figuring out how Bluesky works, but I would love to connect to other fantasy & poetry readers & writers!

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Amanda L. Doyle (@aldoyle.writes) on Threads Read my brief thoughts on AI and the writing process here. https://open.substack.com/pub/aldoylewrites/p/human-writing?r=7kvhf9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Art has always been an expression of humanity. When you take the human out of the equation, you end up with something soulless, a heartless rendering that is flat, and tasteless.

Read my brief thoughts on AI and the writing process here.

www.threads.com/@aldoyle.wri...

Pitch: When a witch and a thief are bound together by a hex, they must work to unravel the mysterious layers of a blight enclosing a nearby town or risk its deadly expansion.

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Check out this short flash fiction I wrote on my Substack🩸💐

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Hi! ☺️👋

I write fantasy and poetry!

My most recent book is about a witch and a thief with a cozy cottage setting and a gothic twist.

Prior to that I wrote a gaslamp fantasy novel set in an original world about a necromancer who fights to save her found family.

Wildness

there is a wildness inside
a barefoot wench
running through the brush
with sticks and tricks
the wildness does hide

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So cute 🥺❤️

Oh, I love it! Now I want to revisit my childhood library 🥺❤️

So excited for this one! 😍

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Remaking

burned away the old me flakes apart
ashen skin carried by the wind
unveiling something new
all that remains are iron bones
forged in the remaking

Role of a Lifetime Mephi questions his villainous role in the puppet show he was made for and pulls against his magical strings.

As Mephi died for the fifth time this week, he noticed something strange in the crowd…

Mephi questions his villainous role in the puppet show he was made for and pulls against his magical strings.

Read my short story Role of a Lifetime to find out the twist!

open.substack.com/pub/aldoylew...

I grant you permission to be soft
to weep and love and feel
to be a gentle soul in world so full of teeth

I’m currently in the query process for my adult fantasy novel, The Witch and the Thief. It has a cozy cottage setting with a gothic twist, a found family dynamic, and a deep emotional heart.

Hopeful I’ll find the right agent soon. 🖤

I write fantasy & poetry that is a little dark but tinged with stubborn hope.