Amanda Carbonell
IP Books I've Worked on
I have had the absolute privilege of working as a contributing author for the Mia in the Middle series (books 3 & 4)-- a fun spin-off of the beloved Cupcake Diaries Series. Books 1 & 2 are out now! Book 3, Rising to the Top, will be out December 2026!
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The upcoming talent show has Mia struggling with her confidence in this third book in a middle grade Cupcake Diaries spin-off series!
Mia finds herself in a rut when Camp Evergreen announces a talent show and she’s the only one out of all her friends who doesn’t have a hidden talent to perform. And that’s just the beginning. Things with Steven have been off, and Mia feels like she hasn’t been able to get one thing right ever since the talent show was announced.
.In the height of self-doubt, Mia gets the chance to show up in ways that are more important than showing out. Can she rise to the occasion and help someone find their confidence?
My WIPS
True Apothecary
Getting Sub Ready!
NA Upmarket Cozy Fantasy/Romance
Puerto Rican Practical Magic x Shameless
Mileena Vega never pictured herself back in her childhood bedroom after college, but when the familia needs you, there’s no way you can say no.
With many local businesses closing and a rival copycat witch shop opening up threatening their long-standing brujeria, Mileena needs to rely on more than her marketing degree to save their shop.
It's going to take a bit of magic, some devious family members, some romance, and maybe a little death.
(Art to the right commissioned by the talented microplaid)
The Soul Collector
MG HORROR (story complete BUT I wanted to turn this into a YA Horror)
STRANGER THINGS x GOOSEBUMPS x ODD THOMAS
Thirteen-year-old Emmy Carrasquillo started seeing ghosts. Well, hollows, as she and her Aunt July, a fellow ghost-seer, like to call them.
Since living with her aunt while her journalist mom travels the world and remarried dad enjoys life with his new family, Emmy has learned how to spot hollows in a crowd, how to avoid their touch, and better yet, how to guide them to the afterlife. However, after encountering a confused drowning victim who was unable to speak, the pair are at a loss for how to help him move on.
In their efforts to find answers, they stumble on a cloaked, skeletal figure in the woods called The Soul Collector. This dark creature is brewing a sinister plan for their home of Dark Falls, New York, the town that wronged him three-hundred-years ago. And he is now hellbent on making a successor out of the family line that led to his demise: the Carrasquillos.
With the help of her aunt, her town’s sheriff, and the strange (but totally cute) new boy in town who, as it turns out, can also see hollows, Emmy must confront The Soul Collector. She must also find it within herself to accept not only her ability to see ghosts but the feelings of loneliness she can’t escape, placed there by her parents’ abandonment. If they fail, not only do they risk losing the town to The Soul Collector, but Emmy may just have to take his place and become the new ferryman for the dead.
(Art to the left commissioned by the insanely talented Joleanart)
Vampires Are the Worst
YA SPEC-FIC
Story complete - for now
PUERTO RICAN GILMORE GIRLS x CAMPY BUFFY x VAMPIRE DIARIES
After spending her childhood training with her grandfather to ward off supernatural creatures that don’t exist, seventeen-year-old Delila Ramos is ready to live a normal life. However, after multiple run-ins with the super-hot but super-sus Kross St. John and discovering the gaps between her grandfather’s lies, Delila learns those supernatural creatures may not be so imaginary.
Delila’s ready to fight, but she’s not exactly ready to discover the connection that truly lies between herself and the vampires.
(Art to the left commissioned by the wonderful microplaid)
Don't Let the Forest in
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Rumpelstiltskin Retelling
It sees.
It feeds.
It wants.
It taunts.
YA Horror
Outline Complete
Cozy Speculative
A beach town with a boardwalk that welcomes ALL creatures after dark.
Gothic NA Horror
Outline Completed
