About the Author
THE ORIGINAL WILD CHILD
Amanda Dodge is a full-time ghostwriter based in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with eight years of experience and fifty books across genres and publishing routes in her professional portfolio. While writing has her heart, her educational background is in Developmental Psychology, specializing in trauma and addiction counseling. It is this training, along with her personal experiences, that helps shape the complex tapestry of overcoming hardship that is commonly woven through her novels.
In addition to her professional writing experience and training in Developmental Psychology, she is also the proud mother of a sweet, high-needs autistic boy.
“Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.”
— Haruki Murakami
CURRENT PROJECTS
Wild Child
Set in 1952, eleven-year-old Wild Child wakes naked outside her house with no memory of how she got there. Vague memories dance in her head of her parents fighting and Angel’s Field—a magical mansion surrounded by a forbidden darkness and angels with fiery swords. Too worried about getting in trouble, she shrugs it off as a dream and goes about her day on the farm with her imaginary tiger, Zara.
Wild Child wants to be unapologetically herself—not the young lady her mother intends to make her by shipping her off to boarding school at summer’s end. To prove she doesn’t need to be sent away, Wild Child does her best to stay out of trouble. But when the family’s longtime resident farmhand, Jonah, offers her a potion that transports her back to Angel’s Field, she can’t resist. Angel’s Field is a world filled with beauty, whimsy, and the desires of the innocent; though the place likes to keep its secrets—as does Jonah.
- Literary Fiction
- Magical Realism
- Single POV (deep third)
- YA with cross-over appeal
- 89k words
Malleable Beings
Death by leukemia at thirty-nine was inevitable for Maya, but her neurobiologist husband, Mason Wainwright, assured her their story didn’t end there. For twenty-three years after her death, Mason sacrificed everything, including his relationship with their son, to perfect memory grafting and cloning technology. Nothing would stand in his way. Not the protest of his longtime lab partner and best friend. And certainly not the Callion Corporation, the current owner and operators of the former United States. The corporation’s vested interest in the technology thrusts Mason into a corporate government conspiracy which silences any objectors.
At long last reunited with his wife, Mason can’t face sharing her or admitting that he failed as a father, choosing to claim their son died. A heartbroken Maya struggles with a body that doesn’t quite feel like her own and the grief of returning to a painfully different world. Meanwhile Luc, their estranged son, works as a reality simulation engineer, responsible for creating the conscious realities clones inhabit while receiving their memory grafts.
While working late one night, Luc learns a clone has rejected her memory graft, something deemed impossible. The pair communicate through the simulated reality, bonding over their loneliness and struggle for a sense of self and connection. Certain the company would destroy the clone as defective, Luc keeps the discovery to himself until he can figure out how to set her free. With nowhere else to turn, Luc seeks his father’s help, only to find out his father possesses more secrets than he could have imagined.
- Speculative Fiction
- Dystopian/Futuristic Past
- Multi-POV (deep third)
- Adult
- 95k words
Claim Your Ghosts
Nora is tormented by the ghost of her very-much-alive mother—a manifestation of childhood trauma from constant suicidal threats. Max is haunted by the disfigured, drowned ghost of his childhood best friend—a death that shaped his entire life. A freak electrical accident during sensory deprivation therapy causes them to swap trauma ghosts, and they’re thrust into a desperate search for each other using clues from their new supernatural burdens. As the two navigate their haunting realities, they must use the other’s distorted memories to find each other before the manifestations of their unresolved pain destroy them both.
- Contemporary Fiction
- Speculative
- Dual timeline (2025/2004), multi-POV (deep third)
- Adult
- 100k words
GET IN TOUCH
For rights and permissions inquiries on Amanda’s current manuscripts, please direct all communications to Najla at Savvy Literary.
Author Amanda Dodge 