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About time I dusted this thing off. A lot has been going on. I have stories upcoming in the magazines Emerald City and Monstrous Femme in the near future. I’ve heard word that Fiction On the Web will be recording an audiobook version of my story “Set, Sand, and Finish,” first as promotional material butContinue reading “Celluloid Heroines”

Another Q and A, this time with the folks at Bookbuzz… https://original.newsbreak.com/@amanda-k-bookbuzz-1591886/3009269943565-q-a-with-new-england-author-leah-erickson

I sat down and talked a bit with HJ Book Blog about my new book, the writing process, and other stuff. Read it here! https://hjbookblog.wordpress.com/

There is a Latin saying that sticks in my head these days: Nomen est omen. The name is the sign. I suppose it is old school, the idea that your name given at birth can influence your entire destiny. That your name can determine your job, socioeconomic status, your friends, where you live. The theoryContinue reading “Nomen est omen…”

It’s 2022, but my internal clock doesn’t seem to know it yet. I’m not “vibing” with it. It might be because my household is in Covid quarantine, but it seems the world is moving at an accelerated, hyper-real pace and yet we are moving around, quite literally, very slowly. The edits are moving along forContinue reading “Art of the Remix”

I think I’ve felt estranged from Halloween for most of adulthood. The seasonal merchandise, the booziness, the ironically sexy costumes have felt kind of off putting in my middle age. But lately, if I see any rubber bats or vials of fake blood or chomp-on vampire teeth, I feel a sort of Proustian dreaminess thatContinue reading “Boo!”

It’s been a while, and it had occurred to me that I don’t have a tab here for my short fiction and that I should probably create one. The last story I published was called “West Side Highway.” It’s July now. I wrote that story in December. Looking back, it seems so long ago. ThisContinue reading “Mid-year Reflections”

I’m back! It has been a long hiatus, but I’m really feeling the energy right now. Like waking up with a huge albatross not weighing around my neck. I’m sure plenty of people have felt the strain of four years of constantly assuming crash position. Four years of waiting for “it” to happen; that senseContinue reading “Living in the Future!”

WELL, it has been an eventful summer so far, so I am late in posting my pics from the IPPY Awards a while back, where “Blythe of the Gates” was honored with a gold medal! I was excited to attend this one because I knew it was at the Copacabana. Which I knew vaguely toContinue reading “IPPY Awards in NYC”