Current Projects
These are the major projects I am working on or shopping out to publishers right now:
The Last of the Quarter - a cli-fi hopepunk about two Category 5 hurricanes that destroy New Orleans and those who are left behind.
Currently being shopped.
A Hundred Storys - A story about a prostitute in 1902 Storyville New Orleans with the power to cut into other versions of Storyville.
Current project.
Gris-Gris, a New Orleans Gothic - a love letter to New Orleans and Marie Laveau.
on hold.
A Song for Elise - a contemporary novel about a woman's exploration of losing everything in Hurricane Katrina and also finding the love of her life again. A rewrite of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Finished. With my agent for review.
Follow You into the Dark - a contemporary gothic romance that rewrites
Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
Finished. On hold.
The Festival of Air and Light (trilogy) - A Victorian Steampunk/Gaslight fantasy about magic and fairies and childhood friends who find each other again, years later.
Finished. On hold.
Such a Pretty Face - contemporary young adult as a love letter to Gen X.
Finished. On hold.
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Becoming (The Cassandra Redux Cycle) - a Victorian Urban Fantasy trilogy about Greek mythology and the end of the British Empire. (two stories set in the universe below).
Completed. Unpublished
March Madness - a contemporary mystery novel series about a high school English teacher who gets into trouble with the Chicago mafia.
Completed and posted online, chapter by chapter.
https://amylmontz.wordpress.com/
Use Tag March Madness.
Marvel Among the Demons (Di Inferi) - a YA novel about a young girl with special powers who moves to Bath, England.
Completed. Unpublished.
Marvel in the Ruins (Di Inferi) - the sequel to Marvel Among the Demons.
On hold. 100 pages in.
All Along the Watchtower and Love is a Battlefield (Di Inferi) - novellas in the MARVEL universe.
On hold.
These Houses of Intimate Acquaintances - a YA novel rewrite of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South set in a fictional Midwestern town during a teachers' strike.
First draft finished. Published chapter by chapter on my blog.
https://amylmontz.wordpress.com/
Use tag "these houses"
Writing Samples
2/22/13
Please follow the link for the short story set in the "Cassandra Redux" universe,
"Cleone Darling Covington Meets the Hand of a God
at the Roman Baths (1860)"
2/4/2013
Please follow the link for the short story set in the "Cassandra Redux" universe,
"Cleone Darling Meets the Emperor of Ice Cream
at the Great Exhibition (1851)"
Please follow the link for the short story set in the "Cassandra Redux" universe,
"Cleone Darling Covington Meets the Hand of a God
at the Roman Baths (1860)"
2/4/2013
Please follow the link for the short story set in the "Cassandra Redux" universe,
"Cleone Darling Meets the Emperor of Ice Cream
at the Great Exhibition (1851)"
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