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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES

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Author #AmQuerying Kuhn's THIEVES x FOUNDRYSIDE x DnD movie Newsletter sign up: https://cpashton.kit.com/b9aba4c4e8 Get my sapphic contemporary short story 🏳️‍🌈: a.co/d/9kvAIdt Fairy tale retelling anthology coming Nov 6! notyoureverafter.carrd.co

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not Your Ever After is coming November 6th! But if you like writing honest reviews, you could snag your copy early!

ARC sign-ups are live right here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#fantasy #scifi #sff #indieauthor #arc #fairytale #Cinderella #heist #romance #beautyandthebeast #redridinghood 📚💙

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 5d

Decorating for #Halloween while sending out #ARCs for Not Your Ever After! It's #fall, and what better time is there to cozy up with a new book?

Who's reading out there today?

Missing yours? Check for spam from Bookfunnel, and let me know if you don't see it! 💙📚🖊️

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 9d

We had a blast writing them. Can't wait to share! ARCs go out next week!

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 9d

🥀 a gender-swapped Beauty and the Beast
✨ a fairy tale crossover Frog Prince
☣️ a high-tech Red Riding Hood
🥿 a heisty Cinderella
🗡️ a dark fae Hansel and Gretel

This is Not Your Ever After

🚨Last chance! Get your #ARC
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#writingcommunity #fantasy #scifi #fairytale 💙📚🖊️

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 12d

instagram.com/booked4adventures brings a #heisty #Cinderella to Not Your Ever After: An Anthology of Crooked Fairy Tales.

snag your ARC right here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#fantasy #scifi #sff #indieauthor #arc #fairytale #Cinderella #heist #romance #beautyandthebeast #redridinghood 📚💙

Ashes & Alibis
Ash Whitaker
This damn wig was starting to itch. I could feel the sweat collecting under it from the midday heat and had to resist the urge to scratch at my head. Or better yet, rip the thing off. The impulse that was becoming difficult to ignore as I waited for my target to leave her ridiculously long lunch.
featured in not your ever after
coming November 6

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 14d

Ha ha... they're bars of granola! 😅 I'm so baffled. Here, "flapjacks" is synonymous with "pancakes."

a stack of pancakes with syrup and butter being poured on top

ALT: a stack of pancakes with syrup and butter being poured on top

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 14d

Probably like "snippity gobbles" or something. 🙃

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 14d

Right?!? I was watching Bake off and was soooooo confused for like half the challenge.

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 15d

So apparently the Brits call granola bars "flapjacks"??? 🤨 #bakeoff #gbbo

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 16d

Who wouldn't love a modern #BeautyAndTheBeast #retelling with a gender-swap? That's what www.instagram.com/debbielynnwr... brings to Not Your Ever After: An Anthology of Crooked Fairy Tales.

#ARC copies go out soon! Don't miss yours.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#fantasy #scifi #indieauthor📚💙🖊️

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by any other name
debbie lynn
At least I’d have time to study the flowers. After all, I’d risked everything to do so—my family, my career, my future. The letter my dad had written to me felt like fire in my pocket. I pulled it out and unfolded it once more. It had only been in my possession for two days, but it was worn and wrinkled from the dozens of times I had read it.
featured in Not Your Ever After
coming November 6

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 18d

This one's for @coppercoinediting.bsky.social 💙📚 🖊️

buzz/woody meme.
buzz lightyear, labeled as "me" says "em-dashes everywhere". Woody is labeled as "my editor" he looks scared.

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 20d

@hanamarengodfrey.bsky.social brings whimsy, romance, and adventure to Not Your Ever After: an #Anthology of Crooked #FairyTales in the form of a #FrogPrince and #12DancingPrincesses crossover!

Sign up for your copy now! #ARC copies go out the week of October 6th.
docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/...
💙📚

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Clever
Hana Maren Godfrey
“Your cloak, Sister,” Leonora whispered in the moonlight. She smoothed the invisible fabric over Berenice’s petite frame, blotting the girl from view under its ephemeral gauze. “Hold it closed, here.”

The child balled her fists around the seams, securing the two halves of the cloak together, and lowered her freckled face beneath the billowing hood. It was as though the night had eaten her. Yet Leonora could sense Berenice there, feel her younger sibling’s warmth as she turned to
follow their unseen sisters into the wood.

Featured in not your ever after
coming November 6

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 24d

Sign up to be an #ARC reviewer and join our mailing list NOW if you'd like to read the first bit of my high-tech #RedRidingHood! The newsletter with this exclusive sneak peek goes out tomorrow!

Click/share below!
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#writingcommunity #indieauthor #fantasy #scifi 💙📚🖊️

Mugatu from zoolander says "fairy tale retellings. so hot right now"

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 25d

It's that time of year again! *laughing* *crying*

Real talk, I paused querying a while back and have committed to trimming down the word count and finding those perfect comps that are going to set the stage for what this story really is. I'm getting there and plan to be back to @amquerying soon! 📚🖊️

squid game before and after meme shows 456 smiling and saying "signing up for query tracker" and then 456 haggard and frowning, saying "query tracker subscription renewing... again"

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · 27d

Something ✨crooked✨ this way comes.

@ghostinherpen.bsky.social brings us a twisted #HanselAndGretel origin story with dark magic and darker secrets to Not Your Ever After, an Anthology of Crooked Fairy Tales.

docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/...

#fantasy #scifi #sff #indieauthor #arc #fairytale 📚💙🖊️

Image is white text over a black background. It reads "all that glitters is not gold, charlie morgan" "Her mother always said the fae were dangerous, wicked things. But Eira had never seen a fae, and as far as she was aware, they only existed in bedtime stories. Tucked between thick pages and dried ink, the biggest threat they posed was heavy eyelids, hungry for sleep." "featured in not your ever after" "coming November 6th"

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thanks! We had a blast with these! Can't wait to share!

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thanks so much for your support, James! Can't wait to share the final version with you!

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 12

🥿 a heisty Cinderella
🥀 a gender-swapped Beauty and the Beast
✨ a fairy tale crossover Frog Prince
🗡️ a dark fae Hansel and Gretel
☣️ a high-tech Red Riding Hood

What more could you want?

Snag your #ARC! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#writingcommunity #sff #fantasy #scifi #fairytale 💙📚🖊️

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 11

My heart breaks for Evergreen High School.

Make this stop.

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sometimes those are the best adventures!

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 10

Plotter, a pantser, or something in between?

The best analogy I've heard for me is the headlight method. Like driving at night, I don't need to see everything for miles. I only need to know what's right in front of me.

#writingcommunity #indieauthor #fantasy #scifi #sff #author 📚 🖊️

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 8

Uncover wicked magic, cunning heroines, and secrets lurking beneath the surface of every enchanted world. This is Not Your Ever After.

ARC sign-up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#fantasy #scifi #sff #indieauthor #arc #fairytale #Cinderella #heist #romance #beautyandthebeast #redridinghood 📚💙

distracted boyfriend meme. girlfriend says "waiting an extra month for the release date", boyfriend says "you: future arc reader", other woman has been replaced with the elegant black book cover of Not Your Ever After: An Anthology of Crooked Fairy Tales and says "Getting your free advance review copy early

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 5

Glad I'm not the only one! ha ha

CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 4

You'll get a little sweet something as a side-plot sometimes, but messiness is so much more fun. 😅 I'm a sucker for a broken character or a deliciously juicy shouting match.

#indieauthor #writingcommunity 📚 🖊️ #writing #romance #fantasy #scifi #sff #romantasy

pawn stars meme says "readers love romances right now" and the bottom says "best i can do is a messy divorce"

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here's an excerpt from the opening of "Code RED," my high-tech, near-future #RedRidingHood #novella.

Get your #ARC, including this story and four other #indieauthor #fairytale #retellings now! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/...

#writingcommunity #scifi #fantasy #sff #booksky #writesky 💙📚🖊️

image is text over a sparkly black background. it reads "code red, c. p. ashton" "Scarlet scowled at the objectively punchable face of Logan O’Connell—all twelve of them. The entire wall was lined with televisions, and Logan was on every single one as he prepared to hold an emergency press conference. She was far too hungover and not nearly caffeinated enough to deal with his bullshit this morning." "featured in not your ever after" "coming November 6th"

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CP Ashton - querying FOUNDRYSIDE x FIREFLY x Kuhn's THIEVES @cpashton.bsky.social · Sep 3

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