BENEATH CALM WATERS is my third book, but Becka and Grayson are my very first bi MCs! If you like bi characters, spicy romances, and the fun of figuring out who did it in a twisty murder mystery then you should check out their story! 😍 #booksky #queerromance #romancebooks

Love a spicy romance + a good murder mystery? There's still time to pick up a copy of BENEATH CALM WATERS before June 1st and get a gorgeous art print + 2 stickers! Just fill out this form saying you bought it and I'll send you the goodies: docs.google.com/forms/d/1k_Y... #booksky #romancelandia

What happens when a pastor's daughter falls in love with her prison pen pal? Is there hope when she looses her heart to one of the dangerous ones? Find out in Deliver Me by Ashley Hawthorne, available now in ebook and paperback! #booksky #smutsky #spicybooksky

Did you know you can sign up now to get an ARC of my next spicy romance before the release date in May? You can! 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/17tW... A runaway grandson returns home and falls in love with the woman who might have killed his grandfather... #booksky #smutsky #spicybooksky

ARC readers wanted for my next spicy romance + murder mystery book! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/17tW... (No, seriously, please sign up! I only have three so far, and I need a bunch more!) #romancelandia #romanticsuspense #booksky #smutsky #reader #arc

Please take a moment to be excited about this cover reveal with me! ARC sign ups for Beneath Calm Waters will also be available starting Thursday! Like love stories and murder mysteries? You'll love this upcoming romantic suspense novel #Booksky #Romancelandia #Smutsky

February's blog is all about why I write stories where characters experience all the bad stuff we'd love to escape from and why it's extra important in these troubled times! www.ashleyhawthorne.net/post/why-i-d... #booksky #romancelandia

A pastor's daughter. A guilty man. A love story you can read today! #booksky #spicybookrecs #smutsky

I guess I should have posted this over here, too, huh? I promise to try to be more active on Bluesky!

Have you read Deliver Me yet? If not, let me introduce you to Mia and Gabriel! Their powerful love story is available now! books2read.com/u/3LNor1 #booksky #smutsky #spicybooks

Tuesday the Trump fascist WH starts mass immigrant deportations in Chicago. I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. Here I cover: •7 Calls to action to protect our immigrant neighbors •Debunking 6 common anti-immigrant claims •Answering 4 FAQs on dealing with ICE www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

I'd love to connect with other bookish people especially those who like ❤️ Romance 🔪 Murder mysteries 💀 Horror 🌞 Grumpy/sunshine trope ⚔️ Enemies to lovers 💋 Unlikable FMCs 💛 MMCs with hearts of gold 💔 Angst Readers, writers, and book enthusiasts of all kinds! #booksky #spicyreads #smutsky

Have you seen this incredible art of Ethan and Eloise? Do you like opposites attract love stories with murder mysteries? Death Sentence is available now! #booksky #smutsky #spicybooks #spicyreads #romancelandia

I'm having a great time drafting the second book in my upcoming romantic suspense duology! I haven't made it to the spicy parts yet, so have some random snippets with no context whatsoever 😌 #booksky #smutsky #spicybooks #spicyreads #romancelandia

The first in my upcoming Widow's Point Duology, Beneath Calm Waters is the story of a man who's spent twelve years running from his past & a woman who tends to throw punches first and ask questions later 💀 Romantic suspense 🏘️ Small town 👩‍❤️‍👨 Forced Proximity ⚔️ Opposites attract #smutsky #spicyreads

The Witch x The Lighthouse x The Ring ⛵ A sailor looking for refuge 🙏 A wife trapped in a nightmare 👻 A haunted lighthouse ❤️ A forbidden love that may doom them both #bluepit

I love the chance to show off character art! Left- Mia and Gabriel from Deliver Me Right- Ethan and Eloise from Death Sentence #BluePit #BluePitHype

Romance? ✅ HEA? ✅ Angst ✅ Spice? ✅ Epistolary? ✅ Grumpy/sunshine? ✅ Pastor's daughter + her prison pen pal? ✅ books2read.com/u/3LNor1 #smutsky #spicybooks #booksky #spicyreads

New blog post is up! www.ashleyhawthorne.net/post/why-i-w... #romancelandia

Hi everyone! I'm Ashley and I write romance! Currently focused on romantic suspense and horror romance. I started out writing in fandom spaces now do original stuff with an amazing small press. I have two books out already and two more coming in '25 and '26 #BluePitHype #BluePit

I'm here and ready to make this place as usable for me as possible! You'll be seeing lots of posts about writing, books, having grown and nearly grown kids, funny stories about my much loved husband, and living with more rescue pets than anyone with good sense would have. Welcome to my chaos 😅

In case you needed more evidence that billionaires are always awful. What a piece of shit

The stress of being alive gives me a headache 💀

If I'm going to be here instead of one of those places owned by billionaire bootlickers, I have to figure out how to successfully reach readers! What hashtags are we using for book stuff, especially promo for romance novels? 👀

Libraries? Even the libraries are jumping in line to comply with purity culture nonsense? Removing themselves from larger networks to keep you from going elsewhere? Taking out the computers? What the hell is happening in this country and why are we all letting them get away with it 🤢

Looks like Zuck is taking Meta in the same direction Elon took Twitter so I may be having to rehome myself again. I'm going to try to refocus some of my energy here. Fingers crossed I can learn to like this place 🤞

2025 is my first year writing a plus size FMC and she's a relatable queen 👑 #romancelandia #booksky

Back to the marketing grind, so just as a fun reminder, you can get some spicy romances from me that have a lot of angst and some murder 💀🔪 in them...if you're into that 👀 (I know you are, you weird little freak 😌) #booksky #romancelandia

I had a dream once where some unseen entity told me if I wanted to sell books, I needed to get naked... 🤔

My next book comes out in five months! It will be my third published book, which would seem like a miracle to my younger self, who though getting a book published was a thing that only happened to people who deserved it more and were more talented than I ever could be

It's spicy snippet day! (Am I allowed to do that here?👀) #romancelandia #booksky

Vote for Diane and all your fave Indie authors! #BookSky

Indie Ink Awards voting opens today! Go vote for Deliver Me and Death Sentence (and be glad I wasn't nominated for my graphic design!) #Romancelandia #BookSky

I think it's a good thing to have concrete writing goals. One of mine? Having a book I wrote get an audiobook version someday!

My next two contemporary romantic suspense novels have official publication dates! Come to Widow's Point with me to find open door spicy love stories and mysteries to solve! #romancelandia #booksky

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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 I really liked the suggestion of quote posting your previous day so you can flip through them like an actual advent calendar, 9 days in isn't too late to start 😘 If you're an artist making gifts for the holidays remember to make something for yourself too ❤️ #polymerclay

The book community doesn't feel as connected here as it does on Threads and idk if it's because I'm not using the right feeds and hashtags or if I just really need a place with an algorithm 😩

Deliver Me and Death Sentence have both been nominated in the Indie Ink Awards! Voting opens soon and only the top ten in each category move on to the next round of voting! #Romancelandia #BookSky

We do finally broke out the Christmas lights yesterday so I guess it's time to start getting in the holiday spirit. Time for hot chocolate and animated Christmas classics (The Grinch 1966)

Sure, I'm a little biased but I do think those were some very pretty covers! #BookSky

Need a reason to follow me on IG? Here's a good one! I do frequent lives with the amazing Juliet Bridges to talk about author stuff and this month our guest is historical romance author Liana De La Rosa! We're chatting at noon tomorrow, so find me there through the link in my bio! #romancelandia

Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who is determined to turn up the volume and EXPOSE all of the brutal, deadly consequences of abortion bans in America. They're not "pro-life." They're pro controlling women's bodies.

If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.

“Everybody wanna be demon, ‘til they get chipped by a throwaway” — Kendrick Lamar

When men rage, they blow and shoot things up and start wars. When women rage, we create. We knit, do embroidery and cross stitch. We create new things ... while we figure out how to fix the broken things. Behold rage project #1

Authors Against Book Bans are having an all member group Zoom on Dec 6th & a Sex on the Page meeting on the 9th. There's still time to join & register! This is an area that's worth fighting for and a pretty well organized group of activists, so I wanted to pass along the info! #romancelandia

Surprisingly enough I am getting so much done this week. A little extra time and a firm daily to-do list have really been key for knocking out a bunch of stuff I have been avoiding. December isn't usually the it month for me, so I'll definitely take the unexpected boost!

I'm not advocating for murder but maybe having several dozen people standing menacingly outside their houses at all hours of the day and night might send a message