About

Amanda Westlake is a full-time creative living in Los Angeles, California (but her heart is forever in the American south). Her day job is senior graphic designer for a nonprofit, but at night she chases whatever project is currently consuming her: crocheting tiny dinosaurs, doing fantasy photography in the great outdoors, making rubber stamps, critiquing films, baking pies, designing newspapers and magazines, and writing books for both middle-graders and young adults.

Her ministry Oh Beloved One published magazines for ten years. You can still find some of them on the website to read for free.

Her debut novel is a dark fantasy entitled The Memory Jumper. She one day hopes to successfully write and publish a YA thriller/mystery, as well as a middle-grade series about three siblings who learn the power of telling the truth.

Contact her at amanda[at]5brownkids[dot]com.

Welcome to my world. I’m a five-foot-one brunette with a love for big words and funny posts. Stay a while, won’t you?