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🍂🌙Amelia Kayne🌙🍂
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Wine-loving, coffee-addicted romance writer, wife & dog mom who prefers who prefers the fictional world over the real one.

Currently working on multiple WIPs because that's how I roll. (She/Her) #writerslife 💙📚 🚫AI

Website: AmeliaKayne.com
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✔️ PJ's on
✔️ Playlist up
✔️ Wine poured

Time to play catch up and get some words down tonight

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#WriteSky
Meme of The Proclaimers singing I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles. When you're trying to stay motivated... Pic of The Proclaimers: I will write 500 words and I will write 500 more
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Drinking mulled wine + watching Supernatural while working on my spooky short = the perfect Friday night

Happy Halloween, all! 👻🎃
Supernatural meme with Sam & Dean in a dingy motel room. Dean looking at Sam. "It's Halloween, man." Sam sitting on the couch and replying, "Yeah, for us every day is Halloween."
November 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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TFW you're on deadline and your fictional people stray off script, throwing your entire story off.

#WritersLife #WriterSky #WriterProblems #WritingCommunity 💙📚
"Authors trying to get their story back on track" in white type font above a pic of a long-haired blonde woman screaming at her laptop. The Characters: Pic of Nadja from What We Do in Shadows, looking up and yelling, "Shut up! This isn't about you."
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
The Vampire Diaries welcome sign. Wooden sign between two white posts standing on side of a tree-lined road. Welcome to Mystic Falls Est. 1860
October 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Really need to dissociate from reality right now, so I’m gonna put some music on, drink some wine, and work on my spooky short for the rest of the night.

💙📚 #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Personal Mood for my spooky short 11 pics Top half (L to R): Long haired blonde leaning against a tree with her eyes closed. Quote: "There's someone in my head but it's not me". Blonde woman with her back turned is standing on a ledge overlooking the sea. Quote: "What is real?" Close up of man's stubbled jaw. Man sitting on his bed with his head bowed. Bottom (L to R): Image of shadowy woman in a black gown standing in the woods. Couple kissing. Quote, "It's You, It's Me, It's US." Four ghostly figures roaming around the woods. Silhouettes of a man reaching for a woman's hand as they run up a grassy hill.
October 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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8: Spooky month book recs:

🎃The Souls Trilogy by Harley Laroux

🎃The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

🎃The Sign of Seven Trilogy by Nora Roberts

🎃The Casquette Girls Series by Alys Arden

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 💙📚
Board featuring The Souls Trilogy Books by Harley Laroux. All 3 covers are in black and white with a pop of color in the flowers and flames. Book 1: Her Soul to Take (tattooed man with animal skull for a head lying on his back). Book 2: Her Soul for Revenge (Woman's body wearing black lingerie encompassed by tentacles with flowers in the background) Book 3: Soul of a Witch (Thorny vines encompass a pretty brunette with long, thick hair) The Year of the Witching Book Cover by Alexis Henderson Black and white cover with a pretty Black woman wearing a long-sleeved black dress. Her curly hair is up in a bun and there's a forest with barren trees in the background. Image for Nora Roberts The Sign of Seven Trilogy. There's a glowing full moon shining amidst the trees and clouds with 2 birds flying through the air. The background colors are crimson, a dark azure blue, and golden yellow. Blood Brothers (Book One, written in red) The Hollow (Book Two, written in blue) The Pagan Stone (Book Three, written in dark gold) Illustrated book covers for Alys Arden's The Casquette Girls Series. All the covers have a white font with dark purple, blue, black, pink and white hues. Book One: The Casquette Girls (woman with long dark hair wearing a black dress is standing in the middle of the street in New Orleans.) Book Two: The Romeo Catchers (Brunette with long hair and a black dress is sitting on a rooftop with her two friends standing behind her - A Black girl with long hair who is wearing jeans and a green top. A white boy with shaggy blond hair who is wearing jeans and a white top). Book Three: The Cities of Dead (A brunette with long hair and a black dress stands on a Ferris wheel next to a black-haired boy clad in black clothing). Book Four: The Gates of Guinee (A long-haired brunette wearing a black dress stands in front of 3 iron gates).
October 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Hey all! I'm Amelia & I'm a coffee-addicted romance writer & bookworm.

Cursed Souls (Side WIP) is about 2 sworn enemies who team up to take out a common foe.

🔮Enemies to Lovers
🔮Hurt/Comfort
🔮Grump/Grumpier
🔮Forced Proximity
🔮Magical curses & storms
🔮Ticking clock

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 💙📚
CURSED SOULS MOOD BOARD Mood board for Cursed Souls (working title) Top (L to R): Dark-haired man and woman embracing, rows of glowing candles, & a man & woman ready to kiss Middle (L to R): Fire tornado with bright red lightning, Quote on black background: “Two broken souls will either save each other or destroy each other.”, Firey flames tearing through the forest. Bottom (L to R): Black & white pic of a dark-haired man lying face down in the sand, exploding mirror, and a black & white pic of a long-haired brunette lying on the sand wearing a black lace dress.
October 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Name a quote from a TV show
Black & white close up of Klaus Mikaelson. "Don't underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the purest hearts are drawn to it."
October 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Spending my day off reading and researching with my favorite little muse. 🐾

💙📚 #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
Black and tan Shepherd-Lab mix is resting his chin on my blanket while he looks up with soft puppy dog eyes.
September 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Post a duo.
Klaus and Elijah Mikaelson standing out in the dark while ash falls down around them, looking like snow.
September 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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I do not have the brain capacity to work on this rewrite tonight. So, I'm gonna have some fun and torture my fictional people instead. 🙃

💙📚 #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Authors interviewing characters for their books: Painting of a Victorian couple with exhausted expressions. She's leaning against her husband while he's got his hand on her shoulder. Quotes: Wanna suffer together? (her) I'd thought you'd never ask (him)
September 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Sorry for being MIA lately, but I've spending most of my free time living in my fictional fantasy land. Reality fucking sucks.

💙📚 #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
Pic of Rory Gilmore taking a bite of pizza while sitting at her grandparent's dinner table. She's wearing her school uniform and her dark brown hair is pulled back by two barrettes. Quote: Take a break from phone, social media and people and start focusing on yourself for a while. Be selfish for once.
September 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Pinterest: We removed one of your pins because it contains adult content

The adult content ⬇️🙃
Pic of tomato and cucumber salad with parsley, avocado, and cheese
August 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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22: Mood Board for Magic & Medicine:

🩺 Modern medicine meets magic

🩺 Workplace rivals to lovers

🩺 Grumpy/Sunshine

🩺 Single Dad

🩺 Hurt/comfort

🩺 Forced proximity

🩺 Work family that puts the fun in dysfunctional

#FantasyIndiesAugust 💙📚 #WriteSky
Personal mood board for Magic & Med WIP Left column (top – bottom): man’s hand hold holding a glowing ball of light; doctor wearing navy-blue scrubs & holding a chart against his chest; close-up of cardiac monitor; close-up pic of a dark-haired man & woman in bed. Middle column (top – bottom): Medical staff wheeling a stretcher down the hospital hall; Caduceus pic with quote from my WIP: “Magic is much more than just science. It’s magic.” – Alaina Olivieri; Surgeons & staff in the OR Bottom column (top – bottom): Close-up of man & woman about to kiss; Exterior of hospital Emergency room at night with a full moon; close up of a nurse with long dark brown hair & stethoscope around her neck; a woman’s hand holding a glowing ball of light.
August 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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20: Some superstitions in Magic & Med WIP:

🩺 Never say it's “quiet” or “slow”

🩺 Full moon = magical madness

🩺 The witching hour = the trauma hour

🩺 Alaina is a black cloud & a magnet for chaos

🩺 Stavros & his lucky stethoscope

🩺 Stay away from Room 19

#FantasyIndiesAugust
Giving report to dayshift: Pic of Melisandre from Game of Thrones. She's standing with a flaming torch in her hand, wearing dark burgundy dress. Quote: The night is dark and full of terrors.
August 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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19: Author tips that helped you.

"Give yourself permission to suck." - Jennifer Probst

I have this taped to my monitor as a reminder to my inner critic that the 1st draft doesn't have to be perfect, just written.

#FantasyIndiesAugust
#WritersLife
Just Write. Black font on a plain white background.
August 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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18: WIP Playlist

Here are the songs that inspired the first WIP in my Magic & Med series.

#FantasyIndiesAugust 💙📚

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Dark Violet background with heart in the center. Magic & Medicine Playlist: Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble Sara Barellies - Breathe Again Sleeping Wolf - Demons at the Door Hozier - Like Real People Do Natalie Taylor - In the Air Tonight Birdy - Wings Amber Run - Just My Soul Responding Huntar - 808 Heartbeat Maroon 5 & Megan Thee Stallion - Beautiful Mistakes Matchbox Twenty - Unwell Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer Ross Copperman - Holding On and Letting Go Sixx A.M. - Life is Beautiful Roses & Revolution & Weathers - Dancing in a Daydream Natalie Taylor - Surrender Too Far Moon - Til My Heart Stops Andrew Belle - The Enemy AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long LACES - moved X Ambassadors - Litlost Florence + Machine - Shake It Off PVRIS - Only Love (Acoustic) Esterly & Austin Jenckes - Losing Hold Blue October - Oh My My Limi - If I Roses & Revolution - Moment SYML - Better Niall Horan - Slow Hands Swedish House Mafia & John Martin - Don't You Worry Child (Acoustic)
August 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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The shitty weather canceled my plans, so that means I get to spend this stormy Saturday drinking iced coffee and working on edits.

💙📚 #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #WriterSky
Meme of Loki from one of the MCU movies. Top pic is of Loki looking disheveled and screaming. Quote: writers spotting a repeated word they used twice in their entire manuscript Bottom 2 pics are of Loki sitting calmly at his desk with quote, "writers spotting the 478 em dashes they used. Yes, very sad. Anyway."
August 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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15: Comfort TV shows/movies:

✨The Originals
✨The Vampire Diaries
✨Once Upon A Time
✨Supernatural
✨A Discovery of Witches
✨Gilmore Girls

✨Practical Magic
✨10 Things I Hate About You
✨Pitch Perfect
✨The Devil Wears Prada

#FantasyIndiesAugust
The Originals Season 2 Poster with the cast gathered around a black dining table filled with an assortment of food. Left to right: Davina, Marcel, Elijah, Cami, Klaus, Hayley (in front), and a black wolf. The Vampire Diaries Poster. Damon (left), Elena (center), and Stefan (right) are lying on the grass looking up. Elena is wearing a short white corseted white dress and posed as a ballerina. Damon and Stefan are wearing white shirts. Once Upon A Time Poster with the sun shining through a forest of trees. Left to Right: Hook, Rumple, Regina, Emma, & Snow. Supernatural poster. Dean, Sam, and Castiel standing over an empty grave with storm clouds in the background.
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Me: It's finally quiet. Think I'm gonna get started on edits...

The cicadas & crickets: Let us sing you our song of summer

💙📚 #WritersLife #WriterProblems #WriteSky
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Megan Fox (Jennifer's Body)sitting at her desk with her head in her hands, looking defeated.
August 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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12. Last, Current, and Next Reads

📚 Last – In A Rush by Kate Canterbary

📚 Current – A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley

📚 Next – A Legacy of Temptation by Larissa Ione or
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

#FantasyIndiesAugust 💙📚
In A Rush (written in white) on top of of green and white football field turf. A Witch's Guide To Fake Dating A Demon (written in purple). The cover is a pale yellow with an illustrated couple on the front. She's got brown hair and is wearing a short purple dress. He's got black hair, horns and is wearing a black short-sleeved tee and matching pants. Legacy of Temptation (white font). The cover is a teal blue with shiny gold wrought iron gate. A Witch's Guide To Magical Innkeeping (written in green font). The cover is illustrated and features a cotton candy pink sky with bright green grass and a white house surrounded by a pale green picket fence. There's a faceless blond man standing beyond the gate, holding a steaming red mug. A faceless brunette with tan skin and long brown hair stands on the opposite side of the fence with book in her hands and a fox curled around her legs.
August 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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5. Do you tend to write in the morning, afternoon, or evening?

I prefer to write at night, when it's quiet and most of the world is asleep. I'm free to get lost in my fictional fantasy land without dealing with the constant distractions and interruptions.

#FantasyIndiesAugust
Fantasy Indies August Question Card. Day 5: Do you tend to write in the morning, afternoon, or evening?
August 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Mood board for my Fated WIP:

🌙 Set in a modern, mystical town
🌙 Magic & mythology
🌙 Reincarnation
🌙 Power couple
🌙 Soulmates
🌙 Hurt/Comfort
🌙 Grump meets sassy sunshine
🌙 Second chance
🌙 There’s more than one bed, but I’d rather share yours… for reasons…

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Mood Board for the Fated Series Top Row (Left to right): A man’s raised arm, fisting a bright blue lightning bolt in his grip; A man with a sculpted torso stands with his head bowed encompassed by smokey fog; A woman’s palm holding a glittering ball of golden light. Middle Row (L to R): Silhouette of a couple on a bed, getting ready to kiss; Quote, “What you seek is seeking you” by Rumi on a pic of midnight blue rose; Shadowy close up of a couple getting ready to kiss. Bottom row (L to R): A man’s palm holding a flaming fireball; a woman w/ long blonde hair sits w/ her back turned, while facing a window; & a woman in a short white dress standing on the beach, summoning a waterspout.
August 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist.

What could go wrong?😅
Close-up of Klaus Mikaelson from The Originals on a red and black background. Quote: I'm missing a crucial color in my palette: that of my enemies' blood.
August 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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1. Hey all! I'm Amelia and I'm a coffee-addicted romance writer and book nerd.

This month, I'm hoping to work on my Magic & Medicine WIP (working title), which is a cross between ER & Practical Magic.

#FantasyIndiesAugust
Fantasy Indies prompt card with a whimsical crescent moon in the center. Day 1: Introduce yourself and your WIP.
August 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM