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I’m Amanda Pillar, and my newest story, Haunt Me, was published in 2022. It is part of the Immortal Vices and Virtues shared world. Amanda is also the author of the Graced series, which has six books out: Graced, Captive, Bitten, Survivor, Ashes and Freedom. I have also launched the Heaven's Heart series, which has four books out (Deadly Passion, Benevolent Passion, Winged Passion and Ascending Passion) with two more to go. There is also one book out in the co-written Moonlit Hills series.

 

I am an editor and archaeologist, and in my free time, I love doing arts and crafts.

 

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Becoming a writer

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I was one of those decisive children. At age four, I had already declared to all that I was going to be an archaeologist when I grew up. Never mind that I thought archaeologists were actually palaeontologists, but no one corrected me, and so I continued in my mistaken declaration. (Dinosaurs are still cool, though.)

It was only when I was around ten or eleven that I worked out dinosaurs weren't for me, and that studying the mystery of ancient civilisations was. But it was also around then that I became passionate about books.

But I didn't start writing until I was around the ripe old of thirteen, after my favourite teacher told me the unforgettable line, 'A book starts with a single sentence'. Fuelled in the mistaken belief that I could write, and that a single sentence would be easy, I set out on my first book.

It was absolutely terrible.

But that didn’t matter, because I wrote another book, and then another. After a few years, I then swapped to short story writing, and got a taste of what being a ‘real’ author was like. It was through my short fiction that I became involved in editing, and the rest, shall we say, is history.