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✍🏽 Urban Fantasy Writer working on debut novel 📚 Avid reader of fantasy, sci-fi, and romance 🎨 Artist and graphic designer 👩🏽‍💻 @AshleyTWrites 🗞️ https://ashleytwrites.substack.com

Photo of certificate of authenticity for art by Ashley Toombs
Watercolor palette
Four panel comic excerpt from BB&D by Ashley Toombs. Art by Ashley Toombs. Panel 1: blonde woman blooming out an suv window with face reflected in side mirror (Luca) “WHAT'S WRONG JAMIE? DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE ALREADY TIRED!” Panel 2: blonde woman in the passenger seat hit on the arm playfully by black haired man in the driver’s seat with shadowed figure in the back seat. Shadowed figure “YOU TWO REALLY HAVEN'T CHANGED IN ALL THIS TIME.” Blonde woman (Jamie): “OW! KEEP YOUR PAWS TO YOURSELF!” Action bubble: WACK Panel 3: blonde woman and black haired man blushing with heads down while blond haired man leans forward from the back seat. Blonde man (Theo): “DO YOU REMEMBER THE LAST TIME THE THREE OF US TOOK A ROADTRIP?” Panel 4: Jamie and Luca laughing at the awkward misunderstanding while Theo looks on confused with chin resting between finder and thumb.
An Agent’s Guide to Bound in Blood & Darkness by Ashley Toombs Adult Urban fantasy Status: Edits Authorashleytoombs@gmail.com @ashleytwrites Picture of blonde woman in white tee shirt and blue jeans. Picture of book cover for Bound in Blood & Darkness. Picture of blond man with glasses wearing a three piece suit.
Digitally inked drawing over physical sketch on Procreate
An Agent’s Guide to Bound in Blood & Darkness by Ashley Toombs Adult Urban fantasy Status: Edits Authorashleytoombs@gmail.com @ashleytwrites Picture of blonde woman in white tee shirt and blue jeans. Picture of book cover for Bound in Blood & Darkness. Picture of blond man with glasses wearing a three piece suit.
Height comparison chart: Theo cm: 180.34 ft: 5’11” Luca cm: 190.5 ft 6’3” Jamie cm: 175.26 ft: 5’9” Ben cm 195.58 ft: 6’5”
“Jamie Davis” blonde woman with with tan skin and brown eyes. She’s wearing a white tee shirt and blue jeans Art credit: Kalee’s Eternity
“Jamie Davis” blonde curly haired woman with tan skin, brown eyes, and wearing a white tee shirt, denim jeans, and brown belt. She’s looking off to the side with her hand on her hip. Character art by Kalee’s Eternity
“I took a final pass over my appearance before diving into hostess duties. My recently enhanced dark blonde hair shined, though the heatless curls were tighter than I liked. They’d fall as the night went on. I just hoped it wouldn’t frizz in the humidity of a home full of warm bodies and hot food.” Bound in Blood & Darkness by Ashley Toombs Over character art of a blonde woman with tan skin and a black bearded man.
Excerpt from unreleased paranormal romance by Ashley Toombs: “Go! Follow my magic to the kids, someone’s coming.” Izzy said urgently. Felix didn’t question, just shot off with incredible speed down the illuminated path. Izzy reached out to the amber and gold lights of the pack, lighting the way in hopes they’d understand and follow. She touched an old oak. Please lend me your power. Energy poured into her. Too much. She tried to shut down the exchange but it was too late. The tree gave her all it had. She was finally able to pull her hand away and pressed her head to the trunk. Bark fell away, crumbling to dust at her feet. “Thank you.”
Except from unreleased paranormal romance by Ashley Toombs
Fictional Phone conversation between three people. Excerpt from unreleased paranormal romance by Ashley Toombs
Except from unreleased first draft of a paranormal romance by Ashley Toombs
Izzy Blackwood character art by Ashley Toombs
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Excerpt from unreleased paranormal romance novella by Ashley Toombs.
Unedited excerpt from unreleased paranormal novella by Ashley Toombs @ashleytwrites
“The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out” projected on a screen. Person with short black hair, glasses, and white collared shirt, vest, and tie, wearing a birthday cap.
Digital drawing of black woman with black hair
Lyrics to “this is what falling in love feels like” by JVKE on an ombré purple background
“That’s it we’re going to Dallas!” Said Clarke, leaping from the couch. “We are not going to Dallas,” said Izzy. With the Dallas skyline in the background.
“Drink your coffee. Read your books. It’s chaos out there.” Over full bookshelves
Book page with key illustration
Four mini paintings with used water color palette, three paint brushes, and murky paint water in but bowl.
Short cuts book cover screenshot
AshleyTWrites, Ashley Toombs|urban fantasy writer, follow @ashleytwrites. Picture of Ashley wearing a ghost sweater. Picture of book cover “Bound in Blood and Darkness” status:editing. Picture of book cover “Short Cuts” read for free Ashley T Writes on Substack
Book cover that says “Short Cuts, Season One” by “Ashley Toombs” with chalk style drawings of meat, animal cuts, and stars. There are call outs around it “shifter romance”, cozy urban fantasy, slow burn, serial novel, and Grumpy x Sunshine which points to two characters. A male with a beard and chin length straight brown hair and grey eyes with crossed arms in a layer top with cream Henley and olive green button down with rolled sleeves. Grumpy points to him. Sunshine points to a petite red headed woman with pale skin and green eyes. She wears an off white cropped sweater over a plaid skirt.
StoryGraph wrap up: first book: Quicksilver, last book: the Knight and the Moth, longest book: Quicksilver, shortest book: Beautiful Nightmare; total books read: 63, total pages read 22,658; top genres: Romance, Fantasy, Contemporary, Short Stories, LGBTQIA+; top authors: Abby Jimenez, Ali Hazelwood, Meghan Quinn; 5 star reads: Peaches and Honey, Nettle and Bone, Part of your world; average rating: 4.05
Ashley standing in front of a bookshelf
Man with brown hair and gray eyes with hand over his chest. Woman with hand hovering over his hand, back to viewer. Red wavy hair down to mid-back.
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Word count 7711
Word count displaying 5890 words.
Screen displaying 1003 words written today
Picture of computer screen with a note that says “rewrite”
Text message thread. “Started golfing. First hole” reply: emoji depicting two men swinging golf clubs toward a golf green with red flag. An emoji eagle is swooping down to catch any balls
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The definition for the word “sidle”
Word count 1079 of 150461
“Words written today 610” progress bar says 61%
Screen saying page number “410” “Chapter ???” As a chapter header and “the street” as the first sentence
Google maps street view of Billy Bob’s Texas
Computer screen showing 159 words
Before and after shot of word count “where it started” “4195 words” “where it’s going” 5277 words”
Screen showing 4107 words
Image showing computer scree. With box showing “Word Count” at the top and “Pages 21” “Words 3107” “characters 16788” “Characters excluding spaces 13742” and a checked box indicating “display word count while typing”
Document showing 2288 words
Ashley walking in dinosaur park wearing tie dye cap and aviator sunglasses before everything went south.
Computer screen showing open google doc with a heading that says “Episode Three” and a subheading that says “something witchy this way comes”
Computer screen that says “THE END” in all capital letters
A grey screen showing word count athe top and 7472 words, 40,207 Characters, and 32850 including spaces
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