Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON

Surprise!!! I get to write about werewolves now too!!! I so firmly believe in this book, and I'm SO thrilled to have found a home with Orange Blossom! I hope you're all ready to fall in love with a chronically ill werewolf, her nerdy best friend, and the shenanigans they get up to along the way!

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENNIINNNGGGGGG

Phantasms & Phenomena has taken nearly a year and two months to come into the world, and it's out *tomorrow* I love these stories, and the characters in them, so much. They're complicated and weird and delightful and scary all at the same time - and I hope people enjoy them as much as I do

I made an absolutely ridiculous stick figure comic of a real scene in Sophie’s Guide to Werewolves and Pancakes and can’t stop laughing at it 😆

My spotlight for #BBNYA2026 Semi-Finalist 'Child of the Dragon' by @ashintheashes.bsky.social is up on the blog. Go check it out. #youngadult #fantasy #epicfantasy #Booksky 📚💙 @bbnya.bsky.social @thewritereads.bsky.social

So thrilled to be a semifinalist!!

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

Keen to get into the Halloween spirit and want something a little bit supernatural to add to your TBR? You can sign up for an eARC for 'Phantasms & Phenomena' here: tally.so/r/RGXlyQ #queerbooksky #booksky #aspec

I’M SO HYPED FOR THIS LET’S GO!!!

Hello! I need your help! I got half-scammed into drawing someone's kitten as a commission, but then it ended up being a paypal phishing scam. I'm trying to find the cat's real owners so they can have this cute drawing of their kitten!! So I hereby call upon the powers of the internet to find them!

My favorite part? Connecting with readers, especially the teens and tweens for whom this book was written. Thank you all for welcoming All the Scattered Stars onto your shelves! 🧵 3/3 #authorlife #booksbythenumbers

Stats: 📈 Bestselling event: 60 copies in 4 hrs 📉 Worst event: 0 copies in 3 hours, 1 on the way home 🧮 Most/average events: ~12 copies Other numbers: 🖊️ ~200 copies signed 🔖 498 bookmarks given away 📸 over 200 All the Scattered Stars-related social media posts (mostly on IG) 🧵 2/3 #bookstats

I’ve officially sold 600 copies of All the Scattered Stars! Here’s a breakdown of all the deets: Timeline: 📆 169 days since publication 🎪 29 events attended #BookSales: 🎧 24 audiobooks 📱 58 ebooks 📖 518 paperbacks 🧵1/3 #author #publishing #salestransparency

Was anyone else lowkey traumatized by The Green Ribbon story as child? Anyway, I’m going as her™️ for Halloween I’ll do my best not to lose my head

Today's Krita experimentation didn't work the way I wanted it to, so I pivoted and made this little ghosts in the graveyard scene instead and it's so cute 😭 the little black cat cuddling with the ghost cat? the two little ghosts on a date?? the shy ghost behind the headstone?? I love them.

Agents, editors, please, I’m begging 😭 I need this

I got to read this one already and it’s SO good!!!

Y’all this book is SO good!!

Readers: Please don't be embarrassed to reach out to an author if you like their work (and review it too!) These types of things may seem small but they can make an ENORMOUS difference, especially if the author isn't a major bestseller/breakout

"After the disastrous premiere of his First Symphony in 1897, Sergei Rachmaninoff stopped composing." See part three of my interview on The Mess That Made Them at ROROTOKO today.

Revisited this the last couple days because I had a few ideas and learned a few new things! Still not satisfied with Sophie, but I think I need to accept humans are still just a little outside my skill level 😂 but really happy with this new update!

This YA fantasy is such a great representation of chronic illness. Maisie put so much of her heart into this book and it really shows. I love the humor and magic that we see all wrapped up in an accurate portrayal of having to deal with ableism. #AuthorAppreciation #IndieAuthor #BookRec

Hi registered #agents and #editors! Just a reminder that since we had some technical difficulties last week we've extended the #PitchDis request period until today at 8pm EDT. Get those last-minute requests in 😊