Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa

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Author of Romantasy as Amalia Dillin, Historical Fiction and Mythic Retellings as Amalia Carosella, and flameworthy Contemporary Romance as Amalia Theresa! Come for Thor, Stay for More!

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Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· 19d

LEST YOU THINK I have invented this whole mess of a war with centaurs touched off by a wedding, allow me to quote some Ovid. Yes, he's Roman. But he has such a way with words! We're going to talk about the cloud-begotten business don't worry.

Image of the TAMER OF HORSES book cover, a dark haired woman looking down her nose at you from the back of a black horse, with a quote that reads: "Now brave Pirithous, bold Ixion's son, the love of fair Hippodamia had won. The cloud begotten race, half men, half beast, invited, came to grace the nuptial feast" --Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· 19d

Hi, meet Hippodamia, Queen of the Callout. (Also about to become Queen of the Lapiths who have real mixed feelings about this Centaur-raised wild woman marrying Pirithous, their newly made king and a son of Zeus.) books2read.com/u/m2Rv0j

Art depicts a dark haired young woman looking down her nose from above. Image reads: "I am either your equal and free, worthy of your respect and your love, or I am little more than a slave, and worthy of nothing!" Tamer of Horses by Amalia Carosella

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· 19d

Are you one of the 100,000+ Readers who already has HELEN OF SPARTA on their kindle?! Check out TAMER OF HORSES for a new mythic retelling grounded in Bronze Age Greece--and the war with the Centaurs! Available Everywhere: books2read.com/u/m2Rv0j #booksky

Image of a dark haired woman with a black horse, text reads: TAMER OF HORSES, "Edith Hamilton's Mythology meets Taming of the Shrew in Amalia Carosella's delightful TAMER OF HORSES. Banter between bride and groom quickly gives way to bloodshed, war, and the possibility of a poignant, hard-bought truce. A fascinating read!"
--Kate Quinn, Author of Mistress of Rome

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Sep 6

I don't usually share art stuff but el husband and I teamed up to create these VACCINATE stickers with his original art in holo and glow in the dark this year! Because, well, obvs.

Two hexagon shaped stickers with a union soldier dressed white blood cell holding a rifle that say ARM YER CELLS, VACCINATE in patriotic red, white, and blue.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Jun 29

BUTT-WEISER CLYDESDALE

The buttside of an iconic Budweiser Clydesdale horse, his tail braided and beribboned.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Apr 20

Totes a normal response to a bath and/or life. Nothing to look twice at here. Everyone thinks life and baths are utterly disgusting.

24. Think of your bath--oil, sweat, grime, filthy water, all utterly disgusting. Such is every part of life and every material thing you treasure.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Apr 20

Okay. Marcus Aurelius is over here ONCE AGAIN reminding himself not to spin out and everyone nods along and compliments him for being so rational, but no one is asking WHY he needs to remind himself of this so often?? Couldn't POSSIBLY be ✨️ ANXIETY ✨️

49. Don't make more of things than what your senses initially yell you. You are told, for example, that someone has been gossiping about you. Olay, but you /aren't/ told that this chatter hurt you. Or you may see that your child is sick. Yes, but you /don't/ see he's in danger. Always stick to your first impressions, and don't begin adding inferences of your own, and you'll be safe. Or rather add this observation only: everything that happens is part of the natural and familiar order of things.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Apr 18

Okay but. Those of us with anxiety and/or intrusive thoughts, is this not wildly relatable??? I am now leaning toward neurospicy because this is not the first time this has come up.

17. Happiness is the inner deity, the goodness of pure mind. "What are you doing here, Imagination?! Get out, in God's name, by whatever way you came in. I don't need you. You're just a bad, old habit. Really, I'm not angry with you; I just want you to go."

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Apr 18

MARCUS AURELIUS WAS THE FREAKING EMPEROR OF ROME AND IF HE DID NOT HAVE TO HAVE A TAKE ON EVERYTHING NEITHER DO YOU.

52. You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

53. Learn to concentrate on what those around you are saying. Enter as deeply as possible into the mind of each speaker.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Apr 18

BIGGEST MOOD, MARCO! (Did Marcus Aurelius just say he is very tired of finding out when he did not even fuck around? I think he did.)

46. Just as circus games and other popular entertainments off the same tedious scenes over and over, so it is with life--an appalling sameness, a tiresome round of cause and effect. When will it ever end?

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Apr 17

The most relevant meditation so far of Marcus Aurelius: "Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance."

21. Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change--for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Nov 21

Also, not for nothing, but PLAYING TO WIN ends at the holidays, also, and it is very warm and fuzzy, imho. also for anyone who has that one person in their life who overtapes every gift and package, I see you. books2read.com/u/47QDog #holidayreads #booksky

image reads: PLAYING TO WIN a new sexy rom com series from the author of DAUGHTER OF A THOUSAND YEARS and FROM ASGARD, WITH LOVE, now writing as Amalia Theresa.

Image of 3 couples, Sully and Kate (brunettes, very person next door looking) with their shoulder bags ready for class at fictional Midwestern State University; Will (dirty blonde curly hair and a Fowler's BBQ t-shirt) and Nic reluctantly leaning toward one another, but with some obvious reserve on Nic's part (blonde, with her arms crossed); and lastly Violet and Abe, Vi (curly reddish brown hair) obviously leaning against Abe who is planted firmly wearing his hockey team's hoodie, very much in support mode; all on a blue background with a cute squiggly outline.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Nov 21

What's extra special about WINTER GAMES this year is you can get a signed copy from the Bismarck Barnes&Noble right now! It's on the holiday romance table!!! (and the rest of my Amalia Theresa print titles are there, signed, also! along with HONOR AMONG ORCS and BLOOD OF THE QUEEN.)

Image of 5 books on digital readers, PLAYING TO WIN, PLAYING IT SAFE, SETTLING UP, PLAYING HOUSE, and WINTER GAMES, on a blue background.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Nov 21

whoops forgot to alt text that image! here it is with the alt!

reads: Spend the 12 Days of Christmas in 15th Century France, available on kindle, kobo, nook, apple books, and in paperback as part of the FACETS OF FATE collection, or alone as TAMING FATE on Amazon.

It's both the TAMING FATE and FACETS OF FATE covers on a background of snowy branches and red berries. Facets of Fate's cover is split into 3 blended images by a giant lightning bolt, a man and woman in business attire with their backs to the audience, a woman racing through the snow in a red dress on a white horse, and another woman dancing in front of the Eiffel tower. TAMING FATE's cover is just the woman in a period red dress on a white horse, racing through the snow with a lightning bold striking behind her.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Nov 21

I also wrote WINTER GAMES, part of my PLAYING TO WIN series--it's best read as the 4th installment but it's full of yuletide love and warm hugs for all my pagan friends and fam. It's contemporary romance, and doesn't hold back on spice! ebook: books2read.com/u/bo209A (also in print!) #holidayreads

Sully in a blue sweater vest dressed up for the holidays with Kate in a plaid green dress, both standing beside a fireplace with stockings on a red background. Reads: WINTER GAMES: A Playing to Win Holiday Special.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Nov 19

EVIDENCE/Cat Tax!

very fuzzy black cat rolling all over a rainbow colored mat, looking at the camera upside down.

Amalia Dillin/Amalia Carosella/Amalia Theresa@authoramalia· Nov 19

YOU CANNOT TELL ME THESE TWO THINGS DO NOT BELONG TOGETHER. (I really need to dust this bookshelf. whew. sorry.)