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(they/them) YA Author . Hylian 🌸 THE HOLLOW STAR SAGA / next: AWARS (Fall 2024) 💖💛💙 Pansexual & genderfluid 🏳️‍⚧️

Ontario, Canada

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 months

Here she is—the cover reveal of the 4th and final book in the Hollow Star Saga A WILD AND RUINED SONG, coming November 12th 2024 A moment of appreciation for thick girls with swords, in full body armour ❤️🔥 @MelanieDelon fvcking ate with this

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

“send a fleet!!” thanks twitter but unless the gods give me a hot wife and someone lures her off to Troy I think tf I will not

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

excuse me ma’am that’s my emotional support pile of 30 unread books

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2 years

realising it’s going to be March again -_-

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3 years

me: “I need this book immediately, I would rather starve than not have it RIGHT NOW!!” also me: *doesn’t read it for 2 years*

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

my brain when I finish a project

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

the overwhelming desire to write books VS the overwhelming desire to read them VS the overwhelming desire to lay on my bed and do nothing

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

apropos of fucking Texas, here’s a few YA books by trans authors coming out in 2022 (a thread🧵)

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

I have quit my day job! To be a full time writer of YA books about queer teens!!!!! 😭💜

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

7 months

I spent most of my debut year being hideously bullied by a group of jealous authors, in the middle of covid, in the middle of an emotional breakdown. Yet somehow I resisted the urge to 1-star & abuse my fellow debut authors 🤡 I’m glad they’re getting help b/c clearly it’s needed

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A sincere apology. I know this is long, but that's because I'm trying to own and openly address every aspect of what I did.

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3 years

Growing up, I didn’t have even half the terms I used in this book to understand and express my gender or sexuality. Today, my f/f, m/m queer as all heck urban fantasy is out in the world 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Happy book birthday, A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR we fucking did it 🖤

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

🔥🌈 COVER REVEAL 🌈🔥 Nothing is more dangerous than a faerie tale… my badass sword lesbian/fallen Fury Nausicaä can’t wait to show you why A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR March 2nd 2021 GR: B&N: Amazon CA:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

I know we’re very hype for 2022 releases, but here are 6 LGBTQ+ YA Fantasy books coming out in the last part of 2021 I am EXTREMELY excited to read

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

the tragic hot YA villain trope but their origin story is just them snapping after years of working customer service

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

Throwing this gorgeous art by @viria13 back on the tl, my girls Arlo and Nausicaä from A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR, b/c we’re doing a thing on IG and today’s prompt is ~✨ Main Characters ✨~

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

my heart is very happy to see how many YA/MG books by and about trans/non-binary/genderqueer folx are coming out in 2021 ✨🖤 but this pic is not an exhaustive list! please, I want to hear about them ALL! drop me a shout or link to others you know of below!!

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

Anyone who says there’s no such thing as stupid questions has never worked retail

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

quiet reminder that the only qualification for identifying as queer is that you identify as queer. that's it that's the line, there's no scale to measure out queerness it doesn't work like that, even questioning you are valid, welcome to the club

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

Commissioned some hecking beautiful ✨A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR✨ art from the wildly talented @viria13 because it's my birthday in a couple weeks and treat yourself!! and now I'm even MORE excited for you to meet my f/f couple Nausicaä and Arlo when this book comes out next year

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

my co-worker just told me her queer daughter had stopped writing because people always told her around here she just wouldn’t “make it”, but then apparently started writing again ever since she got my book and that is just… everything omg

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

Today I got my first royalty check for A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR, which earned double in its first 6 months what I was paid in advance for it ✨ Thank you everyone for allowing my queer chaos kids into your hearts, I’m just so grateful for this happy moment 🖤

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

It’s time to let go of Harry Potter and show the fck up for trans/nonbinary/genderqueer authors I’m saying this as someone who literally wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for this series. Let go of HP, and allow other, more diverse and inclusive stories to shape our lives

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

There is no such thing as a “girl” or “boy” book!!

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

Dear authors with books coming out right now: promote yourself. as much as you want. 👏🏻 shout 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 your 👏🏻 book. in a time where many of us can’t even go into a bookstore on launch day to see our years+ creation out in the world, allow yourself this 1 joy.

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

After two weeks of this really sudden dip into depression, and completely incapacitating fear that I no long know how to make words happen, I wrote a WHOLE chapter today!! Which I love!! Omg it feels so good to have energy again!!

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

once again I am disappointed that "it's really good and really gay I promise you'll like it" doesn't actually count as a story synopsis

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

I’m officially the author of 2 published queer books!! 🎉 Happy birthday to A CRUEL AND FATED LIGHT 🤍⚡️ Support a pansexual author this #PansexualVisabilityDay by buying the thing I wrote working frontline through a whole gd pandem!c 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖💛💙

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR has officially become THE HOLLOW STAR SAGA! That’s right—there won’t be just a book 3, but a book 4 too!! 🖤 thank you everyone for the outpour of ADAHS love that made this possible I can’t wait to deliver the epic conclusion we have in store for you

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

✨BOOK GIVEAWAY✨ I'm feeling for the 2020 authors affected by everything going on right now, and want to do something to help. So, from now until 3/31: 🎉ANY March - June 2020 release 🎉Like + RT to enter 🎉Open anywhere book depository ships 🎉2 winners chosen MARCH 31st

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

I am SO excited to finally share with you the title of the sequel to A Dark and Hollow Star... ⚡️ A CRUEL AND FATED LIGHT ⚡️ Summer 2022 I can’t wait to destroy your feelings GR:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

✨ HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY ✨ to 4 amazing Black authors all with books out today!! YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN @byleahjohnson A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN @rosiesrambles A SONG BELOW WATER @BCMorrow THIS IS WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ART @museummammy

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

Stop blaming trans and nonbinary people for being misgendered

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

It feel so surreal to be able to announce this but A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR is going to be published!! By the absolute most wonderful @sarahrmccabe at Simon Pulse, thanks to my fabulous agent @MandyHubbard I am shaking. My disaster queer children. ITS HAPPENING

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

Me, reading other people’s books: If they don’t kiss soon I will literally die Me, writing my own books: They aren’t going to kiss until there’s been at least 5 books of suffering, angst, and UST between them 😈🙃😈

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

hot take maybe but queerness is varied and often doesn’t fit any sort of mould and if you’re an agent/publisher who passes on an author for not slotting neatly into one, you have no business trying to rep it at all

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

End of the week reminder that: 💫You’re still a writer even if you don’t write every day/week/month/year 💫You’re not behind because this isn’t a race—your journey, your pace! 💫TAKING A BREAK! BETWEEN PROJECTS! IS HEALTHY AND NORMAL AND MORE PEOPLE SHOULD DO IT

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

Looking forward to A CRUEL AND FATED LIGHT? Here, let me tease you with a little of what you have coming in book 2 of the HOLLOW STAR Saga… 🖤Nausicaä & Arlo—The Faerie Ball Art by the stunningly talented @winter_of_her GR ➡️

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

no big deal just celebrating me signing the contract for books 3 & 4 of the Hollpw Star Saga in beauty and grace 🖤

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

I MADE SUCH A BREAKTHROUGH ON MY WIP! In my head. At midnight. It took forever to get to sleep for the excitement, which of course means now im too tired to actually write it >_> BUT 🎉 🎉 🖤🎉🎉

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

GUESS WHO JUST SENT THEIR FIRST NEW PROJECT IN 3 YEARS TO THEIR AGENT TO READ AHHHH

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR ARCs being whole and real and if you’re wondering: yes, I am still crying. (Also the release date ICYMI is now Feb 23rd 2021)

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

🎉 HAPPY 32 TO ME 🎉 It’s my birthday today. And day 2 of #pride month. Please buy A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR extra special amounts today—both myself and Nausicaä would thank you buy ➡️

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

5 years ago I sat down to write a book about unbearable anger—and found at the heart of it beauty and joy Happy paperback birthday to A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR to the LGBTQ+ community, never let anyone tell you your stories aren’t worth being told 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

Me, after sending my Finished Story™️ to my editor/agent/beta readers: 　＜⌒／ヽ-､_＿_ ／＜_/＿＿＿＿／　　　∧_∧ 　　 (　･ω･) 　＿|　⊃／(＿ I need to change something ／　└-(＿＿＿_／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

HAPPY NEW YEAR IM GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR THIS YEAR 😭😭😭

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

today I am thinking about Them* *my sword lesbian Nausicaä and pansexual flower girl Arlo from A CRUEL AND FATED LIGHT, coming May 24th (art by @winter_of_her )

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

OH MY FCKING GOD 😭💜😭💜😭

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

would we be interested in a sequel title reveal tomorrow 👀 so I can stop calling this 2 Dark 2 Hollow...

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

Today was one of the best days of my life—and I have so many people to thank for that, all of you who showed up today to support my release with your love and best wishes 🖤 I will reply to messages as soon as I can. For now, I must sleep (finally) but here are some cake pics

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

GOOD MORNING TO ME AND THE ARC OF IRON WIDOW BY @XiranJayZhao THAT JUST ARRIVED!!!

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

I wrote 2.2k words today. I haven’t been able to write that much in one sitting in YEARS. Excuse me while I go collapse in a pile of pride and exhaustion 🖤🌿🕷💚

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

My friend told me someone told her IN COMPLETE SINCERITY that pansexual meant “an attraction to objects” and now I can’t stop thinking about how many people out there seriously assume I’m attracted to to things like my new blender

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

🔔 come get y’alls sword gays!🔔 I am thrilled to present the next instalment in the HOLLOW STAR Saga A CRUEL AND FATED LIGHT May 24th 2022 ☀️Art: @MelanieDelon 🏳️‍🌈Design: Greg Stadnyk ☀️Pre-order: 🏳️‍⚧️GR:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

AHHHH!! @DanielleRogland I didn’t even know you sent this!! THANK YOU! MY DAY IS NOW COMPLETE I CAN ADD @heyjenbartel ’s GORGEOUS print to my waalllllll 😍

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

Tonight I was able to take my incredibly supportive parents out for a nice dinner with the first money earned from the first book I’ve ever sold. My heart feels very full right now 💖

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

I am a published author of 2 books in multiple countries!!! Thank you everyone for making this release week the most beautiful experience 💛🤍🏳️‍🌈

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

1 year

It’s cover reveal time!!!! A GRIM AND SUNKEN VOW—book 3 in the Hollow Star Saga, coming to you September 26th 2023 🖤💚 So many thank yous to @MelanieDelon for the STUNNING art of Celadon and Lethe—I can’t wait for you to read what these two get up to 😈

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

from now on instead of telling people what my book is about im just going to refer them to this dm from @XiranJayZhao the energy of 500 pages in one pic

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

At this point I don’t think I can call it a TBR pile. It’s just books I hoard in heaps like a dragon guarding treasure, and maybe one day I’ll actually have time to read some.

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

✨ A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR pre-order campaign reveal ✨ the 1st of 4 character cards by the wildly talented @LtlPaperForest Please see for details on how to enter!

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

✨ A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR ✨ pre-order campaign in full: 🏳️‍🌈 4 character cards (art by the brilliant @LtlPaperForest ) 🖤 1 bookmark 🔥 1 signed bookplate Submission guidelines:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR with a banner!! 🖤 This is a really cool thing to see, considering the hiccups that happened with Amazon this week

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

@EJLevy 1) He 2) If you genuinely refused “facile gender categories” you’d use gender neutral terms, not “she” 3)He 4)Your refusal to listen to the trans community correcting your wrong here is very telling of how poorly suited you are to write this book about James Barry. 5) He

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

Do you like: ✨Slow burn f/f, m/m romance ✨Genderfluid deities ✨Faeries! Furies! F**king tired teens! ✨Soft princes, grumpy boys, sarcastic & magical girls A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR has all of this! Please help me hit 500 adds on Goodreads by xmas <3

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

I got to visit my books in the wild today! Where my partner very loudly yelled “who is Ashley shuttleworth? Is that you??? Are YOU the author of those two books???” which was very sweet but also now I can never come back here 😂

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

*slams hands on table* MERMAIDS. ARE. REALLY. COOL!!!

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

Growing up, I didn’t have even half the terms I used in this book. Pansexual? Genderfluid? It’s a special sort of pain, to lack the ability to express who you are Happy 1 year in the world, A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR 🖤⭐️ Thank you for giving me words

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

Well my phone didn’t go off for this planned #emergencyalert here in Canada, so I guess I’ll just die then.

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

*coughs* A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR has an m/m slow burn “soft prince/his surly bodyguard” ship and it comes out Spring 2021. I’ve got you. *cough*

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bookseller barbie says preorder DRAGONFRUIT 🐉🌺

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Listen, I just need more queer princes in YA. Where is my soft prince falling for his bodyguard? Where is my tough take no shit political prince that falls in love with the wrong diplomat just before his parent(s) declares war? More queer princes in YA 2Kforever

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

Harry Potter is the reason I’m an author. There’s a part of me that will always love it for the hope/family/inspiration it gave when I was growing up. Sex isn’t binary. Neither are feelings. You can still like HP and critique it. You can still like HP and be hurt right now

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

pls i know some of you got really scared when I said the HOLLOW STAR SAGA has strong sapphic SONG OF ACHILLES vibes, but in the immortal words of Panic! At the Disco—I write sins, not tragedies it’s going to be okay

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

Twitter crop is gonnnne, behold the whole ass book I wrote behold my sword lesbian in all her Furious glory

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

Happy #BiVisibilityDay 💖💜💙 to Vehan Lysterne, my Seelie Summer prince of lightning and poor life choices (art by the ever glorious @LtlPaperForest )

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

At 18, I told my local paper I was going to be a writer At 31, I was finally able to tell them I did it pls ignore the dead book and the dead pronouns for my ultimate “how it started vrs how it’s going”

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

“it is done” I cry, tossing my 200k edit at my editor like frodo chucking the ring into Mount Doom

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

i love coming across fics that tag their sex scenes as “lemons” like ahhh, yes, here is an old one. an ancient. no one sites the deep magic to you, you were there when it was born.

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

2 years

TOMORROW!! A Dark and Hollow Star comes out in paperback TOMORROW, Tuesday March 15th! Did you know buying a copy supports a trans 🏳️‍⚧️ + queer 🏳️‍🌈 author PLUS allows you to read the first chapter of the sequel, A CRUEL AND FATED LIGHT???

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6 years

I wrote 57 words today, which isn’t a lot by a long shot, but they were 57 words I didn’t intend to write because of the many other things I had to do. I’m counting this as a win 🖤🌿🕷💚

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

Do you ever want to read so many books that you just end up sitting there staring at them and read none??

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

THAT’S MEEEEEE!! That’s my book!! Those are my hot mess queer children!! 😭 I’m sorry, I’m not finished screaming about this yet. I’m still so freaking pumped this is happening, and the love and support this news has received has meant the world to me. THANK YOU 🖤⭐️🏳️‍🌈

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4 years

My divorced parents competing to see which one of them will be the first to finish their ARC of A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR and become ?? the superior parent ?? is peak divorce behaviour

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

It's February and✨ A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR ✨ comes out this month on the 23rd!! Pre-order this f/f m/m faerie urban fantasy right here ⬇️ Bookshop: Indigo: B&N: More:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

anyways people are like “make sure to promo your book!!!” so I’m here to remind you A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR comes out in 18 days

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

Happy #LesbianVisibilityDay may I recommend celebrating with my favourite chaotic sword lesbian, Nausicaä A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR 🖤 Buy:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

Does anyone else ever write something and have absolutely NO idea whether it’s good, or so horrible you should probably set your laptop on fire and never word again? I feel like this is going to be the mood for this entire WIP :/

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 years

Good morning to everyone sitting down at their computers today, realising they actually have to WRITE the NaNo project they excitedly told everyone they were doing at the start of October

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

hideous that society has conditioned people to feel like they’ve “failed” if they’re 30 and not married/in a relationship, don’t have kids, or a house, or xyz thing we’re “supposed to be” or have. by 30. which is actually incredibly young.

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

drafting a book is 10% writing, 90% repeatedly deleting the first few chapters and starting over

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

IT IS FINALLY THE DAY I CAN SHOUT ABOUT THIS: with all my thanks and profound delight, I’m so happy to announce that A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR is the feature book in @illumicrate ’s February Book Box and that I get to check this off as an author dream achieved is 😭🖤

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Illumicrate ✨

3 years

Our February ‘The City Is Ours’ photo challenge and readalong start on Thursday! You could win an April box! You can check here to join the photo challenge on Instagram: And here to join the readalong on Goodreads:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

6 years

Girls don’t want boys girls want girls supporting other girls, and swords ⚔️

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

4 months

hi my autism has made me extremely uncomfortable in situations requiring me to display emotion, and get really agitated when something I’m doing gets interrupted. it does not make me create multiple accounts on GR to use to harass authors of colour 😃

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

taking my own advice: if you like 🦋 queer faeries 🔥 sapphic + achillean idiots-to-lovers 💜 trans/nonbinary/genderqueer rep ✨ magical cities ⚔️ sarcastic sword-lesbians 🖤 hot, dramatic villains A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR is out Feb 23rd GR:

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

Dear authors with books coming out right now: promote yourself. as much as you want. 👏🏻 shout 👏🏻 about 👏🏻 your 👏🏻 book. in a time where many of us can’t even go into a bookstore on launch day to see our years+ creation out in the world, allow yourself this 1 joy.

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

sorry but it’s COMPLETE bs that so many minimum wages jobs aren’t considered essential now that vaccines are rolling out, but gods forbid we closed back when you needed 500 rolls of toilet paper and 4L of wine a day

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

I find it very rude that I put all this effort into plotting out my characters’ personalities and backgrounds and then they just decide to use NONE of it. Like, “Oh, I was supposed to be sweet? Too bad. I’m an asshole.”

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

there is a COVER in my INBOX for a certain sequel omggggggg *heart-eyes*

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

5 years

*deep breath* I also have an update, on something I’ve been struggling with defining for a while now: my pronouns are “she/her” and “they/them”, I’m fine with either 💖

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

🖤 pallet change! 🖤 Bit of an adjustment to the A CRUEL AND FATED LIGHT cover—the sword gays now match their sword lesbian in a slightly darker colour pallet May 24th 2022 Pre-order links are live! ➡️

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

I am beyond thrilled to share that in less than 6 months, A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR has gone into its 3RD PRINTING!!! 💀🤯🖤 Thank you everyone who’s bought, promoted, and talked about this book—you’ve all made this debut experience phenomenal

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Ashley Shuttleworth 🍉 (Updates)

3 years

never again am I going to move the SAME WEEK that I have a book coming out. Anyhow I’m v tired,,,1 brain cell left. 4 days until A DARK AND HOLLOW STAR pls pre-order/buy my book

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