Welcome!

I'm a fantasy writer, dark, urban and otherwise. I also write Lovecraftian romance, and occasionally very hand-wavey science fiction.

This is my official website, which mostly contains information about my writing projects and links to shiny things. I try to update regularly, as updateable happenings permit.

Though he is a person to whom things do not happen, perhaps they may when he is on the other side.

Edward Gorey - The Unstrung Harp


News

04/23/08 - Happy 2nd International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! To celebrate, I've put up the first three chapters of Prayers to Broken Stone here.

04/13/08 - News, news, and more news! I'm now represented by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. As they say on the internets, w00t!

Also, Not One of Us #39 is out, which includes my story "Ghostlight," as well as other wonderful fiction and poetry.

And finally, I've been remiss in not plugging Shadow Unit before this, but I'm plugging it now! This week's episode, "Ballistic" is a four-way collaboration between Sarah Monette, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, and myself. They wrote all the cool parts.

03/15/08 - Sale! Aeon is buying "Blue Valentine," the latest in my They Fight Crime collection.

He's an obese coffee-fueled vampire hunter from the Mississippi Delta. She's a beautiful thirty-something college professor on her way to prison for a crime she didn't commit. They Fight Crime!

01/26/08 - The latest issue of Weird Tales appears to be loose in the wild. "Catch" has a lovely illustration by Julie Dillon. (It's The Fall of Icarus, which is in her Personal Art gallery on the site.)

Upcoming Appearances

(Spot the elusive Amanda in the wild.)

WisCon 32May 23-26, Madison, WI
Fourth Street Fantasy 2008I suspect I'm bowing out on this one. Alas.
World Fantasy Convention 2008Oct 20-Nov 2, Calgary, AB
© 2006 - 2008 Amanda Downum. Brushes by Annika von Holdt.