About the author
Amanda Greenslade is an aspiring fantasy novelist who writes for entertainment, enlightenment and escapism. In her Astor Chronicles, she presents a world where spiritual magic is part of everyday life, from the shape-changing Rada to the flame-wielding Zeikas. If you enjoy high fantasy with tonnes of action and range of hidden messages and analogies, this is a great series for you.
Skills and experience:
Amanda completed a Bachelor of Communication majoring in writing and screen production at Griffith University in 2003. Although her focus is on novel-writing, Amanda is a multi-skilled communicator and designer, with knowledge and experience in writing, copyediting, graphic design/layout and web design. She actively engages with so many different forms of expression because of her fascination with technology, the diversity of skills required throughout her career and a desire to learn. For more information, go to the website for her freelancing business Greenslade Creations.
Amanda is employed as a communications officer and uses her writing and design skills on a daily basis. In her spare time she works on her own writing, plays games, reads and watches sci-fi & fantasy and builds websites (including this one and The Specusphere).
History:
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 20 July 1982, Amanda was raised in a healthy, happy home with an older brother and an older sister. She began writing at a young age and completed her first manuscript at age ten. It was an 8,000 word novella about a white bobcat in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies. With a passion for animals and creativity throughout childhood and her young adult years, Amanda continued to bring her interests into everything she did.
Amanda’s Bachelor of Communication at Griffith University encompassed a wide range of topics, from creative writing and video production through to marketing, psychology and literary criticism. If there’s one main thing she learned from her time at university, it was how much she still has yet to discover.
Publications:
She has had one item published in book format, in a collection of essays about fantasy editor and author Lin Carter. A number of her articles are also published on The Specusphere, including:
- Word processing for writers
- Oblivion, a game review
- Gamespeak: A glossary of Gaming Terms
- Girlpower Fantasy: A review of Final Fantasy X-2, a game review
- The Fable of Good and Evil, a game review
- Interview with Tim O'Connor about Little Shop of Horrors
- Farscape: Peacekeeper War, a tv-movie review
- Supanova 2007 (Brisbane)
Interests:
She enjoys reading fantasy and science-fiction novels, listening to movie soundtracks and epic trance music, playing games, watching her favourite TV shows on DVD, going to see movies and spending time with her family and friends. She has been an animal-lover since childhood and spent seven years going to a Ponyclub. She currently has two cats and one dog. Click here for some reviews of fantasy novels worth reading.
Interesting Quotes
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”—James Russell Lowell
How to contact or find out more about Amanda:
Go to Amanda’s Blogger page
Go to Amanda’s listing on The Specusphere directory
Contact Amanda here.
Add Amanda on the following social networks:
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