WIP | Amanda Leanne

Updates on current works and some big news on an upcoming collaboration project.

First up: Darkling Cloud News

Darkling Cloud is in the final chapters. The beginning is already being edited and fine-tuned. Current aim is January 2025. Thank you all for your patience, and I am so sorry for all the delays! I have already added a Darkling book tab to the website, so feel free to check it out. The links will be up after pre-order is available.

Darkling is looking at being the first book in a trilogy. More to be decided after initial reception.

Genre Dancin’:

I will be dabbling in some other subgenres next year. My next book, Velvet Iris (working title), is a dark, Victorian, Gothic, fantasy, horror, romance book with a Dr. Jeckyll/Ms.Hyde Countess begins a love affair with her newest servant girl. This will be at least a 2 spices, and it will be DARK, so no Hallmark or Lifetime romances here. My people know I am not a rainbows and butterflies and puppy dogs with happy endings type, and I have a very macabre imagination. So the book will not be for the faint of heart. This will be something I will be dabbling in more often, but I do plan to clearly label my darker works clearly for those not interested in such. And no, romance isn’t the main theme of the genres. The theme will be more gore, horror, spice, and probably violence.

I will not be stopping my more purple and general population “acceptable” works and may even try out some cozier things here and there, but people love the crazier stuff currently.

The Crone of Crows will be more in line with my current writing style, like Darkling and Sever.

The BIG news!

I am in a collaboration project with nearly two dozen other authors for a bunch of books that will all take place in and around the Bleeding Hearts Valley. It is a shared universe. Our books will be their own standalone stories, but they will reference each other and work around the timelines and events of each other.

My first entry into the universe is already plotted and planned because I got a wild hair one sleep deprived day and in 2 days figured out the entire story I wanted to write. It will begin being written after I get Darkling published.

These will be thrillers, dark psychological, and they will NOT be cozy, so cussing, violence, some spice in some of the other books is going to be a thing. I will get more info as we move forward and will create a page for my book and links to the others in the universe as they come out (as well as the other authors participating).

This is an amazing opportunity for me to be seen by other readers as well as my readers see my thriller chops (recovered after my burn out from the ghostwriting days) and get introduced to some other authors.

This is a big project and I am so excited to be a part of it!

I have been planning and creating like a mad woman. N.I.C.D. Book 1 is being written and I keep having to stop for various reasons. For one, I still do some outside work for the necessary survival funds, but for another, the world is complex. I have the Arcanus (all beings not human) and they have history, politics, education, systems and so much more. My main characters, Mara and Kai, have intricate lives that require me to plan parts of the world a bit better. In comes the binder.

Today was spent working on the various descriptions and explanations behind the various Arcanus. I have also been filling out more of Mara and Kai’s respective backgrounds. I can’t wait for the eventual reveal on their insane lives!

In the process of working on this first massive book, I have begun to contemplate the world I am constructing. My readers may want to know how the Arcanus witches were involved in the witch trials or about the great Pirate and Mermaid War or perhaps how the N.I.C.D. was formed. When and why did the Arcanus create such a bureau, the Nonhuman Investigative and Compliance Division?

With these thoughts came the idea of supplementary reading. Standalone books to fill in historic events, character backgrounds, and other tales from my world. These books will get the same depth and tone as the main series, but won’t need to be read in any particular order. They may not be as long or exstensive, in fact some will be novellas, but they will be the fancy frame for the picture I am creating.

I am all ears for questions or information about my upcoming books. Thank you for keeping up with my journey!

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