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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON
@ashintheashes.bsky.social
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Author | ARTIFICE & ACCESS out now! | CHILD OF THE DRAGON coming 2026 | repped by
@redpenkaitlyn.bsky.social | disabled as heck | MPH | Epidemiology | Virology | she/her 🖤🤍💜
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Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · Sep 12
I've been dreaming about the day I'd see my own name on a book cover. A massive thanks to JV Artists for making the cover of my dreams! Child of the Dragon is releasing March 10, 2026 from @inkedingraypress.bsky.social and preorders are available now on their website!
A purple background with the cover for Child of the Dragon (A cover with fire on the left edges and ice on the right edges centering around a girl in shorts and a tank top, raising a sword high and summoning lightning in front of a massive purple-y european dragon inside some sort of arena. The title: Child of the Dragon is written across the center in a curly, silver font, and the author name is in a smaller version of the same and says Ashley N.Y. Sheesley). Fire and ice surround the cover in a way that gives it a somewhat 3D effect. The text reads Cover Reveal at the top and across the bottom it says Coming March 10, 2026
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I can't believe I get to be in @ellatholmes.bsky.social second disability anthology! I've been TRYING to convince them to call it 2 ARTIFICE 2 ACCESS but I think I've been overruled 😔
Artifice & Access means so so much to me, and I am so excited to be in this one too
#CrippingDystopia
A kinda creepy green background with a scaloped edge like a stamp. inside the frame, it reads "My story was accepted into the Disability in Dystopia Anthology coming May 2026. or as I lik to call it 2 Artifice 2 Access. in the center, there is a stamp of a green mushroom cloud with a skull in the corner. a disability pride flag sticks out of the corner A green and purple background with text that reads Anthology acceptance. the same stamp of a green mushroom cloud from the first slide is in the upper right corner. Underneath it says "you can look forward to short stories from the following authors! Shantell Powell, Alexis Ames, Ashley NY Sheesley Sally Sultzman, Morgan Greensmith, Gabriella Hassan, Noelle Falls, Casper E. Falls, Ellis Nye, Kara Siert, Julie March, Leigh Ann Cowan. Dysability in Dystopia Anthology coming 2026" A kinda creepy green background with a scalped edge like a stamp. inside the stamp fram, it reads: My short story is about a a bunch of disabled rogues causing some good trouble in a dystopian society It’s got: A sassy narrator best friends to enemies annoyance as resistance my old nemesis . . . stairs and a whole lot of disabled rage a mood board with a lot of blacks and electric blues. There are 9 grids. the top left, middle-middle, and bottom right have text that across the 3 reads "It's like a game of cat and mouse we like to play in which I am the mouse--clever, slippery, and destructive."the images are:top row: box 1 (text) box 2 dark server room lit with blue lights from the server towers. box 3 a black and white flight of metal stairs.middle row: box 1 a starless night sky with blue-ish light pollution. box 2 (text), box 3 a misty view of a bunch of sky scrapers as pictured from abovebottom row: box 1 yellow eyes of a cat stare out of the darkness. Box 2 glowing blue circuit board. Box 3 (text)
February 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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sallysultzman.bsky.social
HEY SO guess who has a story coming out in print this May in Disability in Dystopia? That's right, me! #CrippingDystopia
A dark green background with the text "My story was accepted into the Disability in Dystopia Anthology coping May 2026" #CrippingDystopia with the center image being a green mushroom cloud framed like a stamp with a skull nearby.
February 5, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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alexisames.bsky.social
I have a story coming out in the Disability in Dystopia anthology run by @ellatholmes.bsky.social ! The book comes out in May. Stay tuned! #WritingCommunity
A graphic that reads: My story was accepted into the disability in dystopia anthology. Coming May 2026.
February 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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ajsuper.com
I’m excited to announce that ARIA UNSUNG, my book with mech-driving witches who use resonance magic with crystal technology, has been acquired by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social for publication in the Spring of 2027!

Check out the blog announcement: inkedingray.com/aj-super-and...
AJ Super and Inked in Gray Press Announce Aria Unsung |
Inked in Gray Press has acquired world English rights to Aria Unsung by author AJ Super.Aria Unsung is an adult/crossover science fiction novel about power, ...
inkedingray.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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kaitlynabdou.com
I haven't posted on here much, but I would really love some help boosting this video!

I forgot to say it in the video, but please don't forget to add A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES On Goodreads!

linktr.ee/kaitlynabdou
February 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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karasiert.bsky.social
A reluctant soldier and his steadfast partner embark on a final mission to investigate the horrors appearing across the land. The truth may unravel them both.

💀Seven deadly sins as monsters
🩸Chronic illness
🥀Religious themes
🖤Found family
#W #YA #F #H #questpit
Image shows a dark floral background with four photos: a stone angel statue, a stone cathedral, hands reaching for the sky, and a skull. Text reads: “Who will I be if I return?” with name Kara Siert in the bottom corner.
January 31, 2026 at 1:11 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I’m putting a street team together for my queer small press debut coming out March 10! It’s A YA contemporary fantasy that’s kinda like if ERAGON took place in the modern day, but instead of a boy finding a dragon, a girl finds out she is a dragon.
Sign up here: forms.gle/udyPGSzVUYZP...
January 29, 2026 at 10:33 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I adored IN THE NAME OF HONOR! IN THE NAME OF PRIDE is an absolutely perfect sequel!!
Happy book birthday @collinsauthors.bsky.social!!!
collinsauthors.bsky.social Courtney & Clarke Collins | Fantasy Co-Authors @collinsauthors.bsky.social · 12d
🏹IN THE NAME OF PRIDE is now available!!!!🏹

To those of you who walked in darkness, and the ones who showed us that we are not alone.
To those who ever felt trapped or helpless, yet refused to give in.
To those who need to heal.
To the helpers.
This story is for you.
Green graphic with the cover of IN THE NAME OF PRIDE on the left and tropes on the right: kidnapped princess who must save herself; wounded MMC; unhealthy amount of stakes; exquisite yearning; and your favorite cheese thief. Text at the top announces now available.
January 27, 2026 at 7:38 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I’d be a dragon right now if I could. But alas. The curse.
January 21, 2026 at 10:03 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
because sometimes it's just really important everyone sees this art again
ashintheashes.bsky.social Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON @ashintheashes.bsky.social · Apr 23
"Ask me one more time..."

I got art of my girls from my short story, Hope, be it Never So Faint in Artifice & Access! I'm so in love! The artist is @Nev_The_Artist on twit, @nevtheartist.bsky.social on bsky, and @nev-jpgg on tumblr and now I need to commission all my characters from Nev!
Alt text: A stunning painting done in a medieval style of a red headed woman with a quivver on her back kneeling over a noble woman in a wheelchair. They are gazing lovingly at each other, and the noble's hand is being held to the redhead's heart. They are in a rose garden at night. Around their heads are gold halos and there are gold decorations in the top and bottom left corners.
January 18, 2026 at 6:08 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
when I was in high school, I was feeling chased-by-dragons levels of stress from all the AP classes and colorguard and friend drama. disappointingly, there were NO ACTUAL DRAGONS. So I wrote a book about a girl who fought dragons in high school. And also could turn into a dragon. and it was DOPE.
January 16, 2026 at 3:45 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I forgot to post it here but got my first Netgalley review the other day and the reviewer posted separately on tumblr and made FANART and I will never be normal again 🥹😭😭😭 done by @ forestcowboi on Instagram (shared with permission)
A screenshot from Tumblr that reads: I just read a book that changed my brain chemistry, so of course I had to draw fanart for it! The book in question being 'Child of the Dragon' by @chronicallydragons (seriously it's my new fave and thank you for writing it) (also it's not any scene from the book, but a what if scenario, in which Jason procures a camera and decides to use it on Cole A screenshot from tumblr that reads I would die for all of them ngl, but Coleman is just sO... *biting a chair and shaking it like a possessed dog* I'm absolutely normal about him (but seriously it's so well written, that I felt like | was actually there and I'm so in love with this book and the characters) #bookblr #Child of the Dragon #my artwork #fanart #I'm a changed person An illustration of a young man with red hair and a green shirt with a dragon necklace being recorded on a camcorder in a green field with a dragon in the background
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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elizmanderson.com
upcoming: queer cozy horror THE LORD OF THE WOOD (July 2026)

recent: queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (March 2025)

oh dear, jump scare of my face. well anyway

#WeeknightWriters

www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
January 9, 2026 at 1:52 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
My debut comes out in March and is currently available to request on Netgalley! It’s a YA contemporary fantasy with queer and disability rep and dragons
www.netgalley.com/catalog/?tex...
And here’s more info:
inkedingray.com/books/child-...
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I don't use AI to write. I do what everyone else does: I hack off chunks of my soul, give them names, breathe life into them, and then put them in situations until I cry. And then I make my friends read it so they cry too
January 8, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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ajsuper.com
The digital boxed set is out now! Check out the trilogy on Amazon!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G8MGZ5B4
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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dragons.bsky.social
2026 is our debut year!! Here are some of the SFF authors I have the honor of debuting with early this year. I am really excited about these books so please check them out when you have the chance!

#booksky
Tidespeaker A Barista’s Guide to Love & Larceny A Vow in Vengeance Into the Midnight Wood The Book of Blood & Roses The Poet Empress Godstorm Once Upon A Song February🌷 Heart’s Gambit Queen of Faces The Forest on the Edge of Time The Faithful Dark All We Have Is Time The Iron Garden Sutra Weavingshaw Saltswept The Last Starborn Seer Midnight on the Celestial These Shattered Spires Child of the Dragon A Wish So Deadly Prodigal Tiger Honeysuckle Aicha The Geomagician The Celestial Seas
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I was reminded tonight of my favorite paper at the intersection of literature and epidemiology that I decided to adopt with no further questions asked that argues Shakespeare's Macbeth had a prion disease from the Weird Sisters
January 5, 2026 at 3:58 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
Child of the Dragon is now on page TWO on Netgalley's Most requested in Teens & YA AND LGBTQIAP+!!! Holy cow, thank you all so so so much!!!
January 4, 2026 at 4:24 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I've been waiting for 2026 since I got an email in October 2023 offering publication and now it's FINALLY HERE! MY BOOK COMES OUT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
if you want a YA contemp fantasy with ownvoices queer & disability rep where a high school sr must team up with her anxious best friend, a chronically ill ex-assassin, and his sarcastic best friend to take down an evil dragon government... the Child of the Dragon ebook is in the B&N preorder sale 👀
December 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
Child of the Dragon is already on page THREE of most requested Teens & YA and page FOUR of the LGBTQIAP+ category on Netgalley, and I already got back a really nice review and 🥹🥹🥹 thank you all for the support!!!
December 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
I was hoping to get 200 goodreads adds for Child of the Dragon by Christmas, and, with the GR stats still being broken, it's hard to tell how close I got, but I think I'm ~25-ish adds away?? Which is probably too much to ask for on Christmas Eve, but if anyone wants to help me get a little closer 👀
December 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
ack!! Child of the Dragon is finally on Netgalley!!!!!! and my publisher has their own ARC sign ups with a very limited run of physical ARCs available to request + normal eARCs if you'd rather not use Netgalley
I've been so excited for this and I'm a lil emotional but also terrified out of my mind 😅
A cover with fire on the left edges and ice on the right edges centering around a girl in shorts and a tank top, raising a sword high and summoning lightning in front of a massive purple-y european dragon inside some sort of arena. The title: Child of the Dragon is written across the center in a curly, silver font, and the author name is in a smaller version of the same and says Ashley N.Y. Sheesley
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
ashintheashes.bsky.social
i just personally believe i'd be unbelievably attractive in full plate armor
December 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM