Amanda is an almost unheard of self-published novelist, poet and playwright from Kirkdale, Liverpool. She lives with her almost-teenage daughter and their cat, Rodrick. She is proud to have graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. University taught her many lessons, not least of which, that of how little she knows and will ever learn. Local music and arts reviews are a pleasing diversion from staying home. She doesn't drink alcohol, or smoke, and tries to keep fit at her local gym, pool and sauna. She was told by headache experts to give up cocoa and caffeine about a year ago. It works, she suffers fewer headaches (chocolate is replaced easily with other sweets, and caffeine with decaf). Amanda writes almost daily, her current project concerns editing a second novel, which she completed in 2008. She regularly needs her head testing so pay no mind if she offends you. Her best friends are books.
Favourite idioms include: "Wind your neck in." and "Have a word with yourself."
Recently overheard insult: One boy to another in the changing rooms after a Saturday swim - "Shurrup, you victim!"
Best words of wisdom: "It'll be all right."
Live review: Liverpool Acoustic Afternoon The View Two Gallery Saturday 9th June, 2012 What better to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon than to listen to acoustic music? Three floors above the leery pavements of Mathew Street, away from shopping madness and breaths above jubilant drinking pits at ground andContinue Reading
Thomas-Joseph & Murphy Album-launch gig- Weary Nights Friday 11th July, 2008 at View Two Gallery, Liverpool I arrived almost breathless to catch a spare seat next to local artist, Tommy Everett, who was fittingly poised with pen and sketchbook in the cube of art-space at the top of the galleryContinue Reading
