Amy Safford
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Suspense
Amy Safford, MFA, is an award-winning Maine author. Her debut novel, Goode Vibrations of the Wresting Place, won three international literary awards: the 2025 Eric Hoffer Spiritual Fiction and First Horizon Book Awards, and the Independent Publishers IPPY Silver Medal for Visionary/New Age Fiction. She was also named a finalist in the 2025 Independent Author Network, 2024 American Book Fest, and 2025 Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Fiction Awards. Her stories blend historical and literary fiction, suspense and paranormal, for an enticing, thought-provoking reflection on New England history that shapes our lives today. Amy taught English composition at the University of New England and was a contributing writer to Coastal Fish of Southern Maine and New Hampshire. Her alma maters are Boston University and USM Stonecoast MFA Program. The former executive director of the Maine Psychological Association, Amy lives in Saco, Maine with her husband, Jon.
Amy Safford's books
Genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
The supernatural shift of Penelope Goode continues in Book II of the Goode Vibrations series. While trying to make sense of her ability to see into the past, she leaves her hometown of Portland for the mountains of northwestern Maine to visit a relative threatened with losing his property. In the shadow of the Bigelow Mountain range, Pennie finds herself steeped in a community of loggers, hunters, and fishers, sensing the vibrations of hardy souls who settled in the river valley. Her visions take her back in time, the days before the villages of Flagstaff and Dead River were flooded by the power company. Sinking even deeper into the past, she dreams of Benedict Arnold’s epic expedition through the untamed wilderness of the valley. By sensing the many vibrations of the land’s storied history, Pennie discovers injustices of the past, and the freedom America fought for 250 years ago, to...
Genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
The transformation of Penelope Goode begins after a near-death experience on her 30th birthday while skiing on a mountain in Maine. She wakes up in recovery and the world around her is more vivid and intense. Strange visions creep up on her like a dream—the spirits of her recently deceased dog and the mother she hardly knew. Ghost owls cast shadows of premonition. When the number three recurs, Pennie fears for her sanity, especially while surveying a graveyard near the former Home for the Feeble-Minded. Here she senses her first vibrations—spirits of the Malaga Island settlement reinterred on these very grounds after a forced exile over a century ago by the State of Maine, a chapter of racism and eugenics. Despite warning signs and against her best instincts, she rushes headlong into a relationship with the developer who is excavating near the graves. She begins to realize the signs all...