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Ashley Taylor
@ashtaylorwrites.bsky.social
Enthusiastic storyteller, incurable dreamer, patiently impatient mum, autistic, proud kiwi ✍️💭👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ♾️🇳🇿 #amquerying
Watching Casper with the kids. I wonder how this has aged?!

All I recall is the roller coaster to the secret lab and “can I keep you?”
😂
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
New WIP wants to be in past not present… well here goes changing five whole chapters! 😂
September 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Started a brand new WIP! These characters are so new and fresh, and I have no clue how they are going to react to the madness I’m throwing them into.
#amwriting
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August 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
WIP at 80k! 🎉💪
Final act to go!

#writingcommunity
June 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Happy mamas day! Lego flowers for the win! 🥹
May 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Birthday book haul!!!
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Second round done and dusted!

#shortstorychallenge2025
April 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
40k into my new WIP! Midpoint madness reached! 🔥❤️

#amwriting
March 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Come on, March! I have good feelings about you!

🤞 🕯️ 🤞

#amquerying
March 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“I could no sooner pick a favourite star in the heavens.”

#NZWrites
#NZWrites Feb 13: What's your favourite book?
February 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Young Adult Fantasy when it comes to novels. My short fiction is much more variable - and I often do comps that push me out of my comfort zone when it comes to genre.
#NZWrites
#NZWrites Feb 3: What's your favourite genre to write?
February 3, 2025 at 5:59 AM
A little bit late to the game, but hi!
I’m Ashley, writer of YA fantasy novels and all sorts of short fiction.
I live in Christchurch with my husband and two young kids. I’m late diagnosed autistic and often use that lens in my writing.
#NZWrites
To help our Kiwi writers find and get to know each other, we're starting a thing! Tomorrow!

Just answer the prompt every other day and include the #NZWrites hashtag 🥝📚

#NZbooks #NZauthors
February 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Does your town have a witch? Mine does. She’s the reason Mum’s dead, Dad drinks, and I’m my brother’s keeper.
But she won’t be a problem much longer… 🔥

Agent’s guide to The Witch in the Woods.

#P2Ppit #YA #F #Q #ND
January 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
THE HAZEL WOOD X SPINNING SILVER

🔥 Hot-headed female MC
👫 Touch him and die twin dynamics
🧚 Hansel and Gretel twisted
🎃 Celtic myth/Samhain
🧙 Witchy Magic
❤️ Enemies to lovers
🌲 Are the woods sentient?

#P2Ppit #Q #YA #F #ND
January 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
👋 I’m Ashley! Autistic mum/writer/teacher.
I write mostly YA and mostly Fantasy with fairytale and mythological elements and always with weird and wonderful ND characters.
🎉Time for the #P2Ppit Q&A Party! 🎉

Hello and welcome to the question and answer party for #P2Ppit!

- 1st Question: Can you tell us about you and your writing?
January 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Considering doing #p2ppit over here. How do pitch event work where the skies are bluer??
January 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My #amquerying silence was just broken with a form rejection on a full.
😞
December 2, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Reposted by Ashley Taylor
#AgentsGuide to The Peculiar Craft of Shadow Repair, 93k, 3-POV #specfic. Please like/share! #WritingCommunity #MomsWritersClub

Comps: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore. Time travel element is similar to Octavia Butler’s Kindred forced time travel.
November 20, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Been super quiet in the #amquerying trenches this week.
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November 24, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Still figuring out this platform, but I just made this #agentsguide and wanted to share 😁
#amquerying
November 22, 2024 at 3:31 AM
What is a starter pack?!? I don’t understand how this works 😅
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Still don’t know what I’m doing on here 🥴 where’s the #writingcommunity at?!?
June 26, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Officially #amquerying my third project!!!

Third time’s a charm?!?
January 15, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Happy new year!!

#2024
January 1, 2024 at 4:57 AM
100 queries sent on my little ND fairytale inspired fantasy.
I can’t help but feel we are reaching the end of the road 😔
September 29, 2023 at 7:26 PM