Isabel Ashdown
@isabelashdown.com
Author, mother, dog hugger, friend. Writing coach & Royal Literary Fund Fellow. "Ingenious" (Sunday Times) 📚 "Fiendishly Clever" (Red Mag) 📚 "Delivery was late" (Amazon reviewer)
Publisher: @orionbooks
Agent: @agentkateshaw
www.isabelashdown.com
Publisher: @orionbooks
Agent: @agentkateshaw
www.isabelashdown.com
Lovely to see you Lulu - thanks for a fascinating evening! Can’t wait to read Beast x
August 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Lovely to see you Lulu - thanks for a fascinating evening! Can’t wait to read Beast x
Oh, such parallel paths! 🙌 So encouraging for anyone who didn’t fit the one-size-fits-all constraints of early education.
February 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Oh, such parallel paths! 🙌 So encouraging for anyone who didn’t fit the one-size-fits-all constraints of early education.
Updated pic to showcase my books 2009-2024 📚 15 years, 2 great publishers, 1 amazing agent, many sleepless nights … 10 books! 4/4 (a thread)
February 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Updated pic to showcase my books 2009-2024 📚 15 years, 2 great publishers, 1 amazing agent, many sleepless nights … 10 books! 4/4 (a thread)
… by 39 I had graduated with a first class degree, signed with an agent and published my first book. Fifteen-year-old me could never have dreamed it. I repeat: NEVER GIVE UP! 3/4 (a thread)
February 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
… by 39 I had graduated with a first class degree, signed with an agent and published my first book. Fifteen-year-old me could never have dreamed it. I repeat: NEVER GIVE UP! 3/4 (a thread)
… I loved reading and I loved writing, but where would that ever get me? In my mid-30s, after twenty years of hard graft, and with two small kids, I enrolled at university to study English and Creative Writing … 2/4 (a thread)
February 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
… I loved reading and I loved writing, but where would that ever get me? In my mid-30s, after twenty years of hard graft, and with two small kids, I enrolled at university to study English and Creative Writing … 2/4 (a thread)
What a beautiful picture 🥰
January 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What a beautiful picture 🥰
It really is. My father was in the system from 7, battled lifelong demons and was dead by 50. This book was enlightening and all too familiar.
January 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It really is. My father was in the system from 7, battled lifelong demons and was dead by 50. This book was enlightening and all too familiar.
Same John - we’ll miss you in April! Our paths will coincide again, I’m sure 🙌
January 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Same John - we’ll miss you in April! Our paths will coincide again, I’m sure 🙌
Great news John - can’t wait to hear more ✨
January 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Great news John - can’t wait to hear more ✨
Easily one of my favourite books of all time 🙌
January 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Easily one of my favourite books of all time 🙌
Yes! We must check in as we go along, to celebrate our creative successes 🙌
December 30, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Yes! We must check in as we go along, to celebrate our creative successes 🙌