Amelia L Rigby | Stories, Editing, Audiobooks

So there is definitely no #airport in my WIP, but there is a lot of flying! Those passages tend to have a lot of spoilers, though. So have a mythic origin story instead.

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Strange Animals by Jarod K Anderson Anderson (Something in the Woods Loves You) delivers a haunting and atmospheric urban fantasy populated by quirky human characte...

The Publisher’s Weekly review of my new novel is out today!

“…a wholly captivating tale of magic and nature.”

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I legitimately take it as a sign that my marketing and networking must be working SOMEWHAT for these jerks to find me. lol

“This must mean we're getting close, right?” Anya rasped in the stillness. But no sooner had she said it than a loud, distinct thump came from a floor above them. There was no mistaking it or denying it now: someone or something was up there. As Anya and Cass's faces turned upwards toward the sound, Ferran waved his light pointedly back and forth to get their attention. 'Someone is here,' Anya quickly signed to him, and his head snapped upwards to look at the dark ceiling above them too, though there was nothing to see. Cass gripped the handle of her blade a little tighter and compulsively checked her holstered pistol. Both of her companions were close behind her as she kept onward.

A #SaturdaySnippet of the prologue that will soon go out to newsletter subscribers. Undergoing a final coat of polish (speaking of compulsive).

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May the caffeine be with you.

I wouldn't know how to NOT allow politics to impact my writing.
LIFE is political, but if (like me) you're writing about violence, civilizations struggling to survive, gender, working class uprising - yep, that's very much political.

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Redeem.

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Not 'sixth' exactly, but close enough.

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Except. Some Rustrock history in this one.

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I love reading about mythology, and it was actually after coming across the Simurgh in Borges' Imaginary Beings when I started forming an old dream into a real story. The idea of this being that witnesses the end of the world several times over is fascinating.
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The promos I made for #questpit. This was so fun! Now to stop overthinking and choose a launch date.

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There were almost too many to choose from here.

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Harlow rolled his eyes to the heavens, sitting back on his seat and stretching out his back. With the gathering darkness making it so that he was lit only by the glow of the motorbike's lights and the lanterns around him, Harlow appeared even gaunter than he had before. There was a flicker of something else in his features too, the signs of a man who had once been strong, confident, handsome. As Cass watched, she saw him look over towards his son, his eyebrows raised with a question, as though making sure he was paying attention. Hare visibly twitched, but he remained silent as he returned his father's look. Say something, Cass thought, unaware of how tight she was holding onto Basia. Aren't you going to say something?

Doing 2/3 a little early, as a treat to myself, because I have been good.
'Confident'

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Had to go with another synonym this time.

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Had to do a synonym this time - went with 'fervent'
#QuestPit was so fun yesterday. Thanks, everyone!
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The lamplight flashed on the metal of the machete, and on the black, beady eyes of the creature as it snarled in response. Its gangly and emaciated frame moved backwards, claws scraping the floor as it went, ears slicked down against its head.

Some more tidbits for #QuestPit
Under the Furious Sun is an adventure novel with sides of horror, romance, and fantasy. If you enjoy some darkness in your post-apocalyptic spice-sprinkled epics - why not follow or subscribe to the newsletter? Serialized release coming soon.
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Thank you! Probably coming up with how its dangerous creatures fit into things and getting to describe them. We get to meet some diseased wasteland critters just in the first paragraph. <3

Dark, moody fantasy moodboard with imagery suggesting magic, forged weapons, and emotional power, created for an adult fantasy novel pitch.

DAWN OF THE CICADA
adult fantasy, 105,000 words
Disney-style enchantment with folklore teeth.

Her enemies wield steel; Lisara wields their darkest emotions, animating them into living weapons that could consume her as easily as her foes.

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Under the Furious Sun by Amelia L Rigby When the bullets finally came for her . . .

Robin Hobb x Mad Max

Rustrock's survival depends on them becoming more than a tiny rebel village next to the only civilization in the wasteland.

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Cass turned to assess her friends for the first time since entering the wretched place: Ferran looked like a different person in the harshness of the lantern he held aloft, his features washed out in yellow light, and the machete in his other hand lit up like he held a beam of sunlight. His face was a severe scowl. He did not have to give any indication of what he was thinking. Behind him, Anya tried to hide her heavy breathing behind the cloth tied across her mouth and nose, though she wheezed as she indicated the gun she held and spoke, “Only had to use two bullets so far.” As though they had thought they would need any.

Currently on the final draft editing board.
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Now onto focusing on #questpit.

Less things grew, less color other than shades of brown. The world slowly tapered off to become a bleak badlands, closer to home than was comfortable. The story went that this area had been obliterated by something a very, very long time ago, killing everything in it, and nothing had ever grown back right. Cass remembered asking Basia about the Great Basin as a child, and Basia had responded that she could just go ride a little ways west if she wanted to see a lot of nothing. It was at least considered less dangerous in this direction, the ghost stories a little vaguer and with less of a bite. Cass had, of course, taken her up on that suggestion many times as a child, often with Ferran and Anya in tow. She had gotten one of the widest and whitest scars on her arm by toppling off of the cliffs that they now climbed again. She didn't remember being worried or in much pain, but she did remember being incredibly bloody, and she remembered Anya crying.

1/30 a little early.

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'Formation'.
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So many 'storms' in my WIPs, but it was difficult to find a non-spoiler-ific snip. So here is one near the beginning of Under the Furious Sun.
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Pencil Drawings of Ice victims Renee Good and Alex Pretti who were both killed for no reason but cowardice. The text reads "INNOCENTS MURDERED BY COWARDS"

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were executed by the state. #AbolishIce #MeltIce

January 26th - 'Commit'. Edited to avoid something that was a liiiittle too spoilery.
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There are almost too many instances of the word 'bone' to choose from. So you get two.

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I had exactly one instance of this across all my current WIPs.

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I got lots of options for this one.

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I missed the 19th's prompt and I don't have 'troll' for the 20th's, so here is my 'drain':

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