AMANDA
(ah-MAHN-dah)- Latin- Meaning lovable or worthy of love.
Fitting.
I've always had an affinity for love.
Being
born in sunny San Diego in the mid 80’s to a young military
couple gave me plenty of insight into the dynamics of a
romantic relationship. Somewhere between moving coasts every
three years, I found myself engrossed in fairytale romances
and dressing up like a bride.
My
first real love was writing. By my sophomore year in a new
high school in Virginia, I had a slew of short stories, songs,
poems, and articles to my name. Writing was fun. It was a way
to get the emotions, dialogue, and pictures out of my head,
and create a destiny for my characters.
I had no intention of making a career in writing, because it
wasn’t what I did, it was who I was. In reality, I wanted to
be an actress. Ah, to be the face of someone else’s authored
story. The plan was to move in with my aunt in L.A. after
graduation, but had a change of heart. Instead, I stayed with
my high school sweetheart (now husband) and attended a film
school in Norfolk, VA. It was at this school that I discovered
my love for writing screenplays and felt compelled to follow
that path. But…as the practical girl I was brought up to be, I
decided to go to a real university. While working full time, I
completed my BA in Psychology in four and a half years.
Becoming a couple’s therapist had always been my “backup”
career and there I was on my way to solving love's most
complicated quandaries one couple at a time.
With
all my new free time after graduation, I decided to turn my
full-length screenplay into a novel in hopes it would help my
screenplay sell. I think I was in the middle of writing
chapter two when I realized that everything I had ever written
was to prepare me for that moment when I knew I was a
novelist. Talk about the affirmation of my life. Now my plan
is to solve love's most complicated quandaries one novel at a
time.
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