Amanda Meredith

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In late 2021, I unexpectedly lost my husband.

My high school sweetheart, my partner for 18 years, father to my three children, confidant, and best friend, was gone so suddenly, I couldn’t grasp the new reality I was forced into.

But my children needed me, and though grief sometimes threatened to drown me, I pulled away from the choking darkness of loss, to be strong for them.

I thought maybe I wouldn’t be able to write again: After all, I had lost MY happily-ever-after, how could I create one for my characters?

But I have come to realize that just because the love story I had with my husband ended, in a way I never anticipated, didn’t mean it wasn’t real, true, and full of love. It didn’t mean I couldn’t still believe in it, hope for it, wr
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The inspiration struck for Dark Mountains when I was a senior in High School. Our Creative Writing teacher gave us a…more
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The inspiration struck for Dark Mountains when I was a senior in High School. Our Creative Writing teacher gave us a unique assignment: free-form writing, but the inspiration/subject had to be a plant. We all picked some type of plant (mine was a bluebell), and had to write about it. We could do poetry, an essay, a song, a short story, etc. as long as it included the plant we picked.

I imagined two little kids, best friends: barefoot, muddy, ripped jeans, tangled hair... basically what I looked like playing outside all day in the summer at that age. A frustrated mom when she saw the tears she'd have to mend, the baths she'd have to start. And those two kids pulling out a bouquet of bluebells they'd picked to help ease any punishment they might receive. Mom's eyes softening, a small smile forming, and those kids knowing that they just escaped whatever consequences they would have normally faced.

It was just a short story when I wrote it, and the focus was the flowers, not the children. But it wasn't long before I began to think about that story, who those children were, why they were best friends, what kind of life they lived, and Dark Mountains took off from there.

I've blogged about finding inspiration everywhere and I know that from experience. A random writing assignment at school became the birth of my first published novel. Who knew a tiny flower could have started something so big? Certainly not that 17-year-old high school student. :)(less)
Amanda Meredith The freedom to create anything and everything that comes to my mind. I don't trap myself in any one genre. I have romance, suspense, even children's b…moreThe freedom to create anything and everything that comes to my mind. I don't trap myself in any one genre. I have romance, suspense, even children's books on the 'back-burner'. When you write, you're free to make your own world, your own characters, your own memories and feelings. The sky is the limit! That's my most favorite thing about being a writer. :)(less)
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Why Romance Novels Should Leave The Stigma Behind And Be Seen For The Progressive Reads They Are - Thursdays With The Author - November 29, 2018

Why Romance Novels Should Leave The Stigma Behind And Be Seen For The Progressive Reads They Are
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“It changed the way I had looked at the world for most of my life and started me on a journey that would change who I was.”
Amanda Meredith, Dark Mountains

“Not every happily ever after comes easily. Some love stories are born in the dark.”
Amanda Meredith, Dark Mountains

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
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“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
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“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
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