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.
Enjoy this playlist from Joey.

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 Unpublished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  Unpublished.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"

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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)"