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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My book, Frostbite and Fire, is on sale today through Memorial day for 2.99 everywhere ebooks are sold. A cyberpunk thriller begins when the body of a burned man goes missing from the morgue. Link in bio.

Book cover of Frostbite and Fire, book 1 in the Houses of Bone and Smoke cyberpunk series by Amanda McCarter. Features image of a black woman over a futuristic city.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

2nd draft of Houses of Bone and Smoke book 3 is done. /twitch #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is entirely too accurate and I doubt Marvel would ever be brave enough.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

75% done with rewrites of book 3 of Houses of Bone and Smoke. Pretty sure my characters are going to file a complaint somewhere. These conditions are pretty intolerable.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Entangled, book 1 of my urban fantasy series Stitch Witches, a series about witches who do magic with knitting, is on sale today until March 5th for .99 cents on all major ebook retailers. #booksky

Mock up of the cover of Entangled, Stitch Witches book 1 by Amanda McCarter.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

1200 words on Houses of Bone and Smoke book 3. Getting close to the home stretch. #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Captain America: Brave New World was fun. Not the best Marvel film I've ever seen. Certainly not the worst. It introduced some compelling possibilities for the future of the MCU. I look forward to what's coming.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Currently reading Black in White by JC Andrijeski. Fantastic book and her character and scene descriptions are vibrant. Everything just jumps off the page. Quality read. A few years older, but really enjoyable. #booksky

Image of cover of Black in White by JC Andrijeski. Silhouette of a man standing in front of a museum with the cover title and author name.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I just saw a book reviewer say they will not give a book a 5 star rating unless it's written in 1st person because they don't consider it engaging enough. I'm sorry, what? I get we all have our preferences, but I can't take someone who says that seriously. #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hey, Canadian readers, Kobo is a Canadian owned company and has a competitor to KU called Kobo Plus. There aren't as many authors in the program as KU owns the glut of the market, but something to think about. 😉 #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Tiktok: You should post photos Me: /posts a slideshow about my books Tiktok: eww, not like that. #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Lenore Zahn says she's finished recording her lines for season 2 of X-men '97. I look forward to the soul-crushing devastation.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I have made it to the halfway point of rewrites on book 3. I must be getting to the swampy middle, because it's starting to feel like a dumpster fire again.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

1400 words on book 3 today. Making progress. #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I was writing while listening to Eminem the other day and found I was typing in cadence to the music. Anybody else do this? #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Managed to get rid of co-pilot. If you go into your account portal on Microsoft, manage subscription, cancel, you MAY have an option to switch to Microsoft 355 Family Classic. This is the same price as it used to be with NO CO-PILOT. Looks like it won't go away until my subscription renews though.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Somewhere, in an alternate timeline, science fiction became the hot book genre. #booksky

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Trish Dukes @trishdukes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

So this is the tag line from my latest book release. Too on the nose? In the ruins of the United States, the family of a billionaire tech mogul is being hunted by an ancient order of assassins. #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

On today's selection of Deep Space 9, Miles O'Brien suffers.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Electric Callboy's new single "Elevator Operator" is a hilarious banger. Check out the music video if you haven't yet. Love a metal band with a sense of humor.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I'm about a third of the way through rewrites for book 3 of Houses of Bone and Smoke. I really like the direction this is going. #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

What if you add magic to cyberpunk? That's Frostbite and Fire. This science fantasy novel follows Dr. Evelyn Stirling as she investigates the death of a street thug, delivering surprises with every chapter. Think Ghost in the Shell, but with a twist that'll keep you guessing. #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1/2 I'm reading through Alchemy of Souls by @thomaskcarpenter.bsky.social, which is book 3 in the Hundred Halls series. I'm pretty happy with it because he avoided an obnoxious trope I see way too often. The protagonist is tricked into doing something terrible and no one believes her, #booksky

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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's Tuesday, which means THE TEETH OF DAWN comes out in a week. I wrote this book for a reason. It has parallels to events happening now. One of the primary themes centers around how resistance can take many shapes, and many of those shapes can be effective, but not without organization.

The cover of teeth of dawn with large yellow text, a black background, and step spooky winged statues.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Forget one true pairing. I may regret asking this, but who's your one nightmare pairing? Me? Odo and Kira in Deep Space Nine.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Not normally a fan of Deathcore, but new White Chapel is BRUTAL. Perfect song for this week.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

📚💙 Inspirations for my cyberpunk series, Houses of Bone and Smoke: 🔹Ghost in the Shell 🔹Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Yes, that one) 🔹Game of Thrones 🔹X-men 🔹Arthurian legend #booksky

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My other WIP. (photo of a cable knit top in vibrant blue)

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My books are available through multiple library apps: Overdrive, Hoopla, CloudLibrary, Odilo, etc. Libraries are a great way to support indie authors.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I just finished watching season 2 of Castlevania: Nocturn. Excellent season. Absolutely outstanding. IGN: Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2's surprising lack of depth and emotional resonance is offset by its excellent cast. 3 stars. Me: Did we watch the same show? Did Netflix not pay their bill?

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Thinking about David Lynch's work a lot this week. I grew up with Dune, found Twin Peaks and his other films as a teenager, and discovered Rammstein because of Lost Highway. His work has been so influential to me and my life. Want to know why I'm weird? David Lynch.

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Skylight Social @skylight.social · 16/01/2025

@skylight.social We’re using atproto to build a TikTok replacement. We’ll continue to post updates on Bluesky! Follow along if you’d like to see the process and comment with any suggestions!

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Me, staring at the word "unusual" in my manuscript: That can't be right. Spellchecker: You're good. Me: /squints. I don't believe you.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm watching all these TikTokers learn Mandarin to get on RedNote and I'm thinking, this is how we get Firefly, isn't it?

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Nine chapters re-written in book 3 of Houses of Bone and Smoke so far. Probably another 30ish to go. I like the direction it's going.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I have gotten more followers here in 3 days than I did in 3 years on TikTok. Not sure what that says about me. Probably just that TikTok is not my thing. I'm okay with that.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I just finished Trials of Magic by Thomas K. Carpenter. It's book 1 of the Hundred Halls series. It's a fun, fast New Adult/College Urban Fantasy series. I bought all five books as an omnibus and immediately started book 2, Web of Lies.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

So far, BlueSky is a breath of fresh air. I forgot what it was like to be on a social media platform that wasn't full of ads and bots. It's also nice to be able to read posts without having them snatched away before I can finish.

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Amanda McCarter @amccarterauthor.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm 50% of the way through book 3 in Houses of Bone and Smoke, but due to edits for book 2, I have to rewrite just about all of it. This works better though. When your editor is right, he's right.

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