Ash 🐉 CHILD OF THE DRAGON
@ashintheashes.bsky.social
Author | ARTIFICE & ACCESS out now! | CHILD OF THE DRAGON coming 2026 | repped by
@redpenkaitlyn.bsky.social | disabled as heck | MPH | Epidemiology | Virology | she/her 🖤🤍💜
https://linktr.ee/ashley.sheesley
@redpenkaitlyn.bsky.social | disabled as heck | MPH | Epidemiology | Virology | she/her 🖤🤍💜
https://linktr.ee/ashley.sheesley
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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!
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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...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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...
Sign up here: forms.gle/udyPGSzVUYZP...
I adored IN THE NAME OF HONOR! IN THE NAME OF PRIDE is an absolutely perfect sequel!!
Happy book birthday @collinsauthors.bsky.social!!!
Happy book birthday @collinsauthors.bsky.social!!!
🏹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.
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.
January 27, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I adored IN THE NAME OF HONOR! IN THE NAME OF PRIDE is an absolutely perfect sequel!!
Happy book birthday @collinsauthors.bsky.social!!!
Happy book birthday @collinsauthors.bsky.social!!!
I’d be a dragon right now if I could. But alas. The curse.
January 21, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I’d be a dragon right now if I could. But alas. The curse.
because sometimes it's just really important everyone sees this art again
"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!
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!
January 18, 2026 at 6:08 AM
because sometimes it's just really important everyone sees this art again
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
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.
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)
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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)
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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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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-...
www.netgalley.com/catalog/?tex...
And here’s more info:
inkedingray.com/books/child-...
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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-...
www.netgalley.com/catalog/?tex...
And here’s more info:
inkedingray.com/books/child-...
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
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
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January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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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
#booksky
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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
#booksky
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
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
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
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!!!
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
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!!!!!!!!!!!
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
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 👀
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
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!!!
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
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 👀
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 😅
I've been so excited for this and I'm a lil emotional but also terrified out of my mind 😅
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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 😅
I've been so excited for this and I'm a lil emotional but also terrified out of my mind 😅
i just personally believe i'd be unbelievably attractive in full plate armor
December 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
i just personally believe i'd be unbelievably attractive in full plate armor
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They put my sister in the snow globe on a Thursday.
Not secretly, nor illegally. It arrived already approved, polished, and explained to us as a necessary compromise.
We put it in the living room, clear and shining, centre-stage so she wouldn’t feel ignored.
(1/16)
Not secretly, nor illegally. It arrived already approved, polished, and explained to us as a necessary compromise.
We put it in the living room, clear and shining, centre-stage so she wouldn’t feel ignored.
(1/16)
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
They put my sister in the snow globe on a Thursday.
Not secretly, nor illegally. It arrived already approved, polished, and explained to us as a necessary compromise.
We put it in the living room, clear and shining, centre-stage so she wouldn’t feel ignored.
(1/16)
Not secretly, nor illegally. It arrived already approved, polished, and explained to us as a necessary compromise.
We put it in the living room, clear and shining, centre-stage so she wouldn’t feel ignored.
(1/16)
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Cover Reveal Countdown #5: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a steamy pirate romance! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Cover Reveal Countdown #5: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a steamy pirate romance! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social
getting a book ready for publication is just a long process of finding out new grammar rules you never even knew existed. At this point, I don't think I even know what words are.
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
getting a book ready for publication is just a long process of finding out new grammar rules you never even knew existed. At this point, I don't think I even know what words are.
I need everyone to understand that if you ever see me willingly on purpose using gen AI, assume I am a demon and must be destroyed.
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I need everyone to understand that if you ever see me willingly on purpose using gen AI, assume I am a demon and must be destroyed.
New profile picture! Still me!!
December 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
New profile picture! Still me!!