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Amanda M. Blake is a cat-loving daydreamer who enjoys geekery of all sorts, from superheroes to horror movies, urban fantasy to unconventional romance. Born and raised in Texas, Blake attended Trinity University in San Antonio and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English.

Amid dipping tentacles into the sea of gothic and horror short stories and poetry, Blake is also the author of horror novels QUESTION NOT MY SALT, IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT, and OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER, horror poetry collections DEAD ENDS and A NIGHTMARE FOR ALL SEASONS, and the fairy tale mash-up Thorns series.

Alt-historical plague novel MASQUE releases in 2027 through Quill & Crow.

For more, visit amandamblake.com.

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Question Not My Salt

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In the Dollhouse We All Wait

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Out of Curiosity and Hunger

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Nocturne

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Thorns (Thorns #1)

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Deep Down

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Bluebirds (Thorns #3)

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Puppeteer (Thorns #4)

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The great American road trip from house to home: Friday Update

This is a year of milestones. Because of working the grocery shopping gig and trekking back and forth from home to where I’m house-sitting (a little farther than the last place where I house-sat), I crossed 100K miles on my car. Miss Emma may be getting up there in car years, but she’s doing well, all things considered. Can’t say the same for the one driving her and the milestone quickly catching

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Out of Curiosity and Hunger by Amanda M. Blake
"Have you ever thought, “I love National Geographic, especially when the animals eat each other, and sometimes maybe humans too.” This is the exact vibe I got from this book. Out of Curiosity and Hunger is a curious little novel about a wildlife photo" Read more of this review »
Out of Curiosity and Hunger by Amanda M. Blake
"Methodically deviant. This book is a beautiful example of a slow burn. Blake does a beautiful job of building layer upon layer of Willa's life, of her ambition, and her hunger for a change to her circumstances. Desperation makes us into strangers cap" Read more of this review »
Question Not My Salt by Amanda M. Blake
"I loved this one. Sienna is invited to her college roommate’s family Thanksgiving dinner, but it turns out this isn’t just a regular dinner, nor a regular family.

I loved how it started out fairly normal, and then got more and more unhinged. I felt li" Read more of this review »
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I'm Sorry If I Scared You by Mae Murray
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I read I'M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU from Mae Murray during the same bad car day that I read Chapman's WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES. Her novel moves at a rip-roaring pace through the way it's structured, pulling you inexorably forward through the wonderful ...more
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Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
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Had a truly unpleasant day at the car place, but the TV thankfully wasn't on, on FOX News or otherwise, so I was able to read the entirety of Clay McLeod Chapman's WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES. In retrospect, might not have helped my mental state. A wo ...more
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Raising Loki by Elliot Manarin
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I've been looking forward to this book ever since I saw the publisher's marketplace listing. I bought it almost immediately when it sold, and I wasn't disappointed.

The story will have you on tenterhooks, and I'm not ashamed there was a point where I
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Haunted Plano, Texas by Mary Jacobs
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There was something surprisingly pleasant about reading on local history. I wouldn't say any of the stories about hauntings in Plano were particularly striking, but I felt I walked away knowing a little more about my home town. And I kind of want to ...more
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Texas Bigfoot by Lyle Blackburn
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I picked this up at Texas Frightmare last May. I saw a presentation by Lyle on the Beast of Bray Road at my first Frightmare and really enjoyed it, so I was excited to read about a cryptid so close to home.

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The Fisherman by John  Langan
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Finally finished The Fisherman, by John Langan. It's not a long book, but it's dense, with long stretches of sentences and paragraphs that harken back to the 1800s style of writing that inspired the novel. That it owes a lot to Moby Dick and Lovecraf ...more
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