This week's #wipwednesday is from my next #hockeyromance story

quote with two of your book covers and/or art pieces! [just two, so the images aren’t squished!] Here are two of my covers! I don't do the art but design my #hockeyromance covers, but @isthiseva.bsky.social designed the Tessa one 🥰

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Me reading heated rivalry fic and it gets to the hockey parts:

i haven't even gotten to playoffs yet......

why do i have four centers? ryan, lars, evan, henri. I DON'T PLAY CENTER. IT IS MY LEAST FAVORITE POSITION. lol what am i doing to myself??

Just really enjoying the Olympics

Attended a book bedazzling event tonight, which was all the more fun because it was at a brewery in Brady's childhood neighborhood ♥️🍺

New Hockey Romance Q&A I have a personal goal to write a new hockey romance novel each year - I'm 2 for 2 so far, and trying to make it 3 in a row. If you follow me on social media, you might've noticed a few hints about this upcoming project. Well I'm here to answer some major questions about…

Lars playing against Anders: 🤬😤😡👿 Lars playing with Anders: 😊🥰🇸🇪🤩

I think it's time to meet the lineup of the Albuquerque Turkeys, coming to a #HockeyRomance novel near you 🦃🏒 Get ready to meet Dylan Everett and Luc-Henri Baptiste later this year 🧡🤎 #mmhockeyromance #SportsRomance

Anders whenever he thinks about Lars and Ryan: now I have two little brothers :) and one of them is nice to me :) and plays on my team :) and makes my real brother be nice(r) to me :) Ryan is low-key the favorite in the Nilsson household

This week: - new hockey romance q&a - hockey bois 🍻🏒♥️ Ashheardwrites.com

tfw your kid wins a tournament but you can't post on socials about your kid winning the tournament because you were "sick" from work today so your kid could play in said tournament. whomp whomp

i leave little notes in scrivener summarizing what happened in that chapter/section. and for most, it's plotty notes. major event here! moving towards other major event there! PLOT. then there are just chapters where the summary is "dat first time" and "dat second time" and "sex chicago morning"

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Happy Valentine's Day y'all! Whether you're looking for the perfect gift for that special something or for a cozy book to curl up with to read on your own, there may be the read for you on our list of queer books about (romantic) love! (1/2) list in text format: duckprintspress.com/2026/02/14/4...

If you see this, post a character that starts with L.

We will be doing a re-release of Trade Deadline with a special hardcover edition later this year! We'll be getting to work on a re-edit in June.

Also if anyone is wondering why... ...this is why...

wut WHAT? From draft2digital's author advantage monthly newsletter. (for anyone wondering how many sales this means, the answer for print is: somewhere around 350 (I don't have the exact data accessible at the moment cause I'm on mobile at a con 🤣)) @ashheardwrites.bsky.social stay winning!

Happy #boskone weekend, #boston! Arrived safe and sound, set up unusually quick, and am now chilling til the vendors room opens. Our hours are not as long as the con runs each day, of course. We'll be here: Fri 4 to 8 Sat 10 to 6 Sun 10 to 5 Come say hi!

The Valentine’s Day Bundle on itch.io includes 29 romance books, some queer, some not – some spicy, some not – some short, some long – but all focused on love! Our novella The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers is in the bundle. It’s a bittersweet romance-mystery, m/m, fantasy. itch.io/b/3515/valen...

god, it'd be so much fun to write an olympics hockey story. IF ONLY PEOPLE KNEW WHO THE FUCK HENRI AND DYLAN WERE.

i usually outline a novel a bit ahead of time. then at some point i get to writing out later parts of the novel and it's like "damn, this is so out of character, what dummy wrote this?" i'm the dummy, i just hadn't met these idiots yet and didn't know half of these notes make no fucking sense

Me at work during Olympic hockey: give me two seconds before I answer your question, just let me watch Wilson smash this guy...... Alright, what do you need?

What are five things in your upcoming release? 🏒 Hockey 🦃 Albuquerque Turkeys 🇨🇦 French-Canadian Center 🇺🇸 American Winger ♥️ Yearning

I didn't mention this in my blog post, but realistic hockey also requires me to take an insane amount of notes on what I said everyone did and when. This is just my "what the heck year did everyone play on each team????" file.

i cannot emphasize enough how much i hate naming books. coming up with book titles is THE WORST.

...and so many other sports! Check back on 2/17 for our hockey recs! (2/2)

Looking to extend the post-Superbowl glow? Enjoying the winter Olympics? Just enjoy sports? We've got you - check out our favorite queer sports books! (Hockey will be in a post next week...) In text format: duckprintspress.com/2026/02/09/o... buy on bookshop.org: bookshop.org/lists/sports... (1/2)

all the refs in my books waiting for the random banter to stop between the centers so they can play the fucking hockey game that everyone's there for

At Velum Fermentation today in Pittsburgh with lots of authors, vendors, and beer at High Street Society's Adult Book Fair - come say hi!

Writing Realistic Hockey Part of why I write hockey romance is because I love hockey. Between my own playing, watching the Capitals, and my kiddos, I get a lot of hockey exposure that I draw off of in my books. When I describe scenes or plays, I'm usually envisioning a real scenario that I've seen…

Tomorrow! Subscribe at ashheardwrites.com - Accurate Hockey Stats in Romance - Short Story: Riley's Stupid Bet Part 2

I started watching the show Barbaren on Netflix because I'm a slut for Roman stuff. And the whole fucking first episode, I'm like guys.... just tell me that one "Roman" guy's name. Tell me his name. Why are you not telling me his name. You're fine telling me that's Varus. But THAT GUY RIGHT THERE!?

Evan's captions 🔧 🟢 Mini-golf 🟡 Fighting practice with @ bardownbarzy 🟢 Riveters Practice 🟡 Duquesne Incline 🟢 Pond hockey back home 🟡 @ bardownbarzy I think the mouthguards work better when you keep them in your mouth

Riley's captions 🏒 🟡 My beloved Queen Sophia was upset that I only gave her two cans of wet food before heading to practice. I’m forever a disappointment 😽🥰 🟢 Why is @ evanabernathy21 so serious? It’s practice bro gotta chill 😉 🟡 Why yes, I DO have nice hair 😊 (1/2)

So for example, I just wrote in a penalty shot. I then described Kuzy's shootout move. But... Do I need to explain what a penalty shot is and when/why they happen?

The dynamic of writing hockey scenes is not unlike writing sex scenes, except that I can't assume the reader has ever heard of sex before

i really want to write a goalie goal, but i also want to save it for if i ever write a goalie romance...

Ugh I played a double header because I'm stupid and now my lungs are uncomfortable because of all the cold air and I blocked two shots so now my leg hurts and I want to melt into my blankets but the kids still have games

January Accountability Post: - I clocked 63,016 words in January across four different projects! - I wrote words! In December, I really struggled to get anything on the page, so this is AMAZING <3 Hope to keep the momentum going, even if it slows down for (checks notes) two travel tournaments.

me having to do math to figure out stats of made up players that i control like some sort of fool

(me rereading my own WIPs) boy I sure hope the author updates soon

it was the kind of cold this morning that when I went out for the older kid's 2 pm practice, my initial thought was "wow! it's so warm now" and it was 14F

7 am hockey practice on a saturday when it's -7F out. i hope my son appreciates that nothing about what i just said was a thing i wanted to do, but i did it.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. - Classical Mythology - History of the English Language - Golden Age Love Poetry (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus) - History of the Roman Empire - Medieval German Literature