Amanda is an award-winning versatile writer with an affinity for genre – particularly sci-fi thrillers. Her work has been translated into four languages.
Born in the country town of Geraldton (Western Australia), she moved to capital city Perth (Western Australia) to study Film & Television/Creative Writing at Murdoch University, earning her a BA in Communication Studies. Perth has been her home ever since, aside from a nineteen-month stint living in London (England) where she dabbled in Film & TV ‘Extra’ work. She has travelled the world extensively.
Original Fiction
For her original work, Amanda is a two-time Tin Duck Award winner, and an Aurealis Award and Ditmar Award finalist.
Her works include the best-selling military space opera Aurora series (previously published by Momentum Books/Pan Macmillan Australia), dystopian The Time of the Stripes, and sci-fi novella trilogy – the Spud Compton series.
Her sci-fi thriller Salvation series, consisting of The Subjugate and The Sensation (published by Angry Robot Books, UK) is being developed for TV by Anonymous Content and Aquarius Films. Book #3, The Survivalist, will be released in August 2026.
The Subjugate was studied at two German universities (Düsseldorf and Cologne) as part of a program on Australian speculative fiction, in conjunction with the Centre for Australian Studies.
Amanda has written two sci-fi/horror short stories for Cohesion Press: ROGUE T.R.A.I.N. (in the SNAFU: Punk’d anthology), and Resistance (in the SNAFU: Comms anthology, which is free when you sign up to the Cohesion Press newsletter).
Her sci-fi micro story The Great Preservation was distributed through Short Édition’s Short Story Dispenser around the globe.
Media Tie-in Fiction
Amanda wrote the Scribe Award winning procedural thriller (akin to CSI and NCIS), Pandemic: Patient Zero, which was the first novel set in the Pandemic board game universe (published by Aconyte Books, UK).
She has written in the Marvel X-Men universe – Her novel, Sound of Light, featuring the mutant Dazzler, was embraced by fans around the globe. Her short story, Eye Of The Storm, appears in the Marvel: School of X anthology. Both were published by Aconyte Books, UK.
Amanda has also written in the Warhammer 40K universe. Her Scribe Award winning short story Reconsecration appears in the anthology Inferno! Presents: The Emperor’s Finest and is published by Black Library/Games Workshop (UK). Her latest release is the novella Paragon of Faith, which features in the anthology Paragon of Faith and Other Stories.
Screenwriting
Amanda has been developing a suite of screenplays – both features and TV pilots – across several genres, and has worked in TV Writers Rooms. She has had both a feature and TV pilot optioned by high profile Australian producers.
When she’s not working, she enjoys watching films/tv (both scripted and documentary), reading novels and comics, solving puzzles, and shaking her booty to rock ‘n’ roll.
