ByAshleighRenée

#promosky ✍️ Writing (fiction & nonfiction) 🏳️‍🌈 Queer storytelling & Chosen Family 🎭 Character-driven storytelling 📖 Folklore & myth 🎲 TTRPGs (playing & narrative design) 🎶 Music (listening & writing to it) 🏺 Material culture & everyday history 🧬 Family history 🌿 Esoterica ashleighwritesbooks.com

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Back at work on the rebuidihg of Unseen after taking a break to work on Good Bones. That one's 99% complete, needs to be reviewed by my ϐeta team for final comments before I send it to my first-line editor for their axe-chopping, because I am verbose AF and it is way over word count. #Booksky

@aclu.org What is the current status of gender markers on passports? I have family members affected by this who would like to travel internationally but are unwilling to travel on falsified documents that do not match any of their other government-issued identification documents.

Pitvching "Good Bones" today for #PNWAConferance2026. ish me (good) luck! I'm up in about half an hour, and nervus AF. #boksky #PNWA

they know we don't want it. they do not care.

Cruelty beyond grotesque.

From the opening scene of "Good Bones" a murder mystery set in he south end of the Puget Sound, Washington. Dr Anna Jones and LCDR Brooke Morningstar were married in Canada in 2007 when Anna was 20 weeks pregnant with their IVF-conceived child, Riley.

I like big brushes and I cannot lie. You other pundits can't deny. When you paint a generation with one enormous stroke, I'm gonna ask where you bought that brush.

Working on a long-overdue update of the website. This was so much easier to mange when I was in my 40s. 🤣 Back then managing a dozen or more website was nothing. Of course I didn't sleep then, either. #booksky #writers

My heart goes out to the families and loved ones of those eight crew members, and to those who will have to work the recovery scene. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/15/u...

Article from a dear friend, Catherine Starr - How I Created a Community of Tarot Reading Using Living Tarot Cards www.brainzmagazine.com/post/how-i-c... #tarotsky

Yeah … so #LeftCoastCrime2026 didn’t manifest in my budget and Good Bones did not get completed because of a major delay with Unseen, the first book in the historical fiction trilogy.

🗺️ This is for everyone who has a #government that does horrible things in their name, who voted for a campaign promise but got nothing or the opposite, who has been disappointed repeatedly, who feels unheard, or who never even got a chance to vote at all! #Politics #Design #CC0 Madeindex.org 1/2

Some thoughts on Erdelezi - the song and the day. Spring/early Summer observances around the world have so many similarities. substack.com/@ashleighwri...

I wonder if they have a bulk order discount? #booksky Fuck Off, I'm Coloring: The Complete Collection – HarperCollins www.harpercollins.com/products/fuc...

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

Once again, voices from the past… (I am a fan of much of David Horsey’s content.) www.seattletimes.com/opinion/our-...

This was one of the albums that was in my Bandcamp recommendations email this morning. Of all, this one caught my attention for the title , so I gave it a try. If you like it drop some more for it. #music #bandcamp damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/album/whats-...

An interesting thread. I know several trans men and women who have struggled with accessing treatment, and coercion to deny their identity, but none who actually regret transitioning. Most say it was the best decision they ever made. Almost all say they are alive today because they did.

This song dropped on my Daily Discovery playlist today on Tidal, and I’m enraptured. It’s a lovely variation on “Counting Crows” that I’ve not heard before #music tidal.com/track/241459...

Typos. The bane of my existence. Why, when this iPhone is constantly turning predictive text back on after I disable it, is it still unable to note and remedy a simple typographical error like “U” instead of “I”? #rhetoricalquestions

What U said on the other account…

Someting different on my Substack today! Not politic!! open.substack.com/pub/ashleigh...

So, which is it? The Department of Jokes? Department of Jerks? Department of Jacka**** Because it is anything but Justice. Hmm. DOJ running out of attorneys. Like rats off a sinking ship. Aha - it's the sinking of the Department of Juicitania?

Alarmingly Relevant: Holocaust Museums in an Age of Rising Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org/online-calen...

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Feeling gutted by the news of Robert Duvall's passing. So many of his film roles are iconic in my memory. But the ones I remember best are Frank Burns and Tom Hagen.

You may either thank, or blame, @marifromky.bsky.social It matter not. Nor will it make any difference.

I've only just been inroduced to the music of this ensemble, and I am loving it. Bio & Press — Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble www.kitka.org/biopress

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(13) 🚨BAD BILL MOVING🚨 Republicans just... - Congressional Equality Caucus | Facebook www.facebook.com/Congressiona...

We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

Truth.

Oh, look...another distraction from the DOJ/ICE overreach. and still not the full release of the Epstein files, by any count. Don't believe the lies. Don't be distracted by the smoke and mirrors. Impeach and convict a corrupt government.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.