Ashley Shuttleworth

Sephiroth comission 🖤

All I’ve been doing these past couple of weeks is reading and writing fanfic haha

Mood

Just an FYI for people who may be new to the book banning stuff, when your books are banned it does not mean you’re on “the right side.” It means that your art (and probably you too) is being targeted by right wing extremists for erasure. It means you are being silenced. It’s NOT GOOD.

See also, publishing pretending to give a fuck about marginalized voices in the wake of 2019/2020 and then putting those books out without any support and promptly dropping the authors because of poor sales.

Right? Like at least commit to the bit 😂

She DMd and was like hi I recently found your works and wanted to say hello sort of business and at first I was like oh cool! Hi. And then she asked if I’d written anything 😂 Like stick to your script my guy I thought you found me because of the stuff I wrote. So I stopped replying. It’s not her

If it’s Janet it’s not her 😂 the same account has tried me and I’m talking to them lol not her. At all

A mastery of monsters by Liselle Sambury book cover

Hello Bluesky! This is my little intro post, I’m Liselle, a bi Trinidadian-Canadian author 🖤 the first book in my new YA dark academia fantasy trilogy, A Mastery of Monsters comes out on July 29th. It’s got secret societies, deadly competitions, a slow burn romance, and throwing knives 😎

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

teen vogue CONTINUES to be That Girl.

they are a perfect example that youth-oriented media can tackle real-world issues with intelligence, heart, and respect for its audience. they cover the topics teens care about while amplifying marginalized voices and holding people in power accountable 💖

New one! The Crystal eater one is out on sub so I’m distracting myself with another WIP. This one back to the fae 👀

This is genuinely terrible and I’m sorry 😢

The cover of LADY DRAGON, which has a white, dark-haired girl in dark armor with her arms around a white, red-headed girl in a pale dress while holding a sword in front of them, with a red dragon looming behind them as flames rise in the background.

A description of LADY DRAGON, as follows: Rachel Hartman's Seraphina meets The Priory of the Orange Tree in Lady Dragon, a sapphic YA romantasy from A.M. Strickland. The age of queens is over . . . unless they can save it. Since the last war between humans and dragons left the leaders of both species slain - the last human king of Andrath and the legendary dragon queen - both queendoms have been living under a tentative truce: only women will sit on the throne of Andrath, the dragons will have free passage through the human lands . . . and if men ever try to retake the throne, the draconic realm will retaliate. Samansa and Kirek are two new leaders coming of age in war-scarred lands - Samansa a reluctant human princess and Kirek the favored contender for the draconic queenship. Per tradition, Kirek must undergo the distasteful task of using a mysterious gem called the Heartstone to shift into human form and maintain the strained ties between the species . . . and study human weaknesses, a new and secret task she’s been given by her queen. As the princess and the dragon girl grow closer, they are sent to investigate a potential breach of the treaty and encounter a plot that could reignite an even bloodier war. While fighting to maintain the peace their ancestors fought for and uncovering centuries-old secrets, Samansa and Kirek must grapple with betraying their clashing nations . . . or their unexpected feelings for each other.

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨 LADY DRAGON, my YA sapphic dragon romantasy is out 8/26 from @fiercereads.bsky.social. You can expect:

🚫forbidden romance
🗡️rivals to lovers
👭forced proximity
🏳️‍🌈butch4femme demisexual lesbians
🛡️lady & knight/bodyguard
⛅grumpy/sunshine
🔥slow burn
☠️“touch her & die”
🐉DRAGONS (& shifters)

I have a whole 3,300 word first chapter written for a new story!! And I’ve read 2 books! So far I am winning at my New Year’s resolution

You can pry complicated fantasy stories from my cold dead fingers, is what I’m learning about myself as a writer

Two reasons to go to BC then 💪🏻

I have an immense amount of love and gratitude for Amy hahaha she’s been so enthusiastic about the HS series all along that I want to make the trek to sign stuff in BC just for her haha

I 🖤 you

Thank you Elle 😭💜💜💜💜 I appreciate you. I’m likewise very excited for what you’ve written 👀

Happy first day of 2025!!

And happy returning to writing to me, after 6 months of doing nothing but gaming (in between parenting) I spent most of 2024 afraid I would never sell another book again; my goal this year is to finish a manuscript, to heck with the looming dread that no one will want it.

The Case for Group Texting With Your Bros About Fertility It turns out racing across town with a sperm sample *is* the kind of story you can share in the groupchat.

So… I got vulnerable over on Men’s Health.

I wrote about our fertility journey, how opening up to my circle of dudes brought lots of laughter and tears, and how more men should do that.

Thankful for my bros. The roasting. The cheering. You know who you are. www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a6...

I would read it, yes sir

So far Burn Out Christmas has just been me playing the Sims any chance my toddler will allow

Happy to add to the holiday cheer with suffering hahaha

I irrationally get upset sometimes that I can't just pull a story from my head and type it up into a coherent and satisfying story in one draft. But then I realized this is the difference between AI-generated stories and human authors. Writing is supposed to be a process.

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there!

Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

And an incredibly talented artist!!!!!!

😭💜💜💜💜💜 thank you and also I hope in a good way haha

Attempting to build yet another platform! Where are all the writers/authors at? Bonus points if you’re Canadian 🇨🇦 or a gamer 🎮