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Amanda is only a slight lunatic who lives amongst a couple of thousand books in Perth, Western Australia. Growing up in the Pilbara with nowhere to go out to socialise gave Amanda a lot of time to start being a shameless nerd at an early age.
Since studying at Trinity College/London Guildhall for three years in high school and at the University of Notre Dame for four, Amanda is ready to attempt to be an adult and try having a “real” life and a “real” job while trying to keep the bizarre side of her psyche alive too.
While Amanda’s writing is blatantly honest and occasionally reads like a septic tank with a sick sense of humour - and some people like this - she is keen to experience the professional side of writing for the masses rather than always writing for small and usually stereotyped subcultures. Amanda enjoys time outdoors, reading, the arts, online and tech culture, films, experimenting with different types of writing, live music and occasionally playing a modern Byron – the somewhat crazy pseudo writer who sits at home alone, watching a depressingly arthouse film and scribbling away - without the overly romanticised case of Tuberculosis.
Some of Amanda’s unpublished fiction has been described by folk as “gothic opera” and “sick but funny”. Her ultimate writing goal is to re-define Neo-Gothic Literature to fit with 21st century cultures and values and to give it a second birth with a volume of anthologies based on the genre.
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