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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Popping back on Bsky long enough to shout about the art I commissioned for my WIP. Look at them! Those are my guys! Thank you to Remi (vgen.co/reminiscence) for this wonderful art of my perpetually-exhausted demon hunter Bette and her frenemy demon Chicanery

Depiction of a slim but muscled tall white woman with red hair and brown eyes. She’s wearing a green t shirt and blue jeans, and she’s crouched with her hands on her knees. On her back and pulling her hair is a gray creature with red eyes and bug-like wings. It’s grinning with pointed teeth.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Cat tax. Don’t let her fool you. When she’s not asleep she’s a little gremlin

A pretty black kitten resting against someone’s chest

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

#HiveMentor applications open TOMORROW NIGHT! Are you ready? writehive.org/writehive-me...

Orange and white text on a purple background reads 1 DAY until submissions open for WriteHive! #HiveMentor

An image of an astronaut in the bottom right corner points up at the text

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

As a reminder, submissions for #HiveMentor start this week! If you’re on the fence, I encourage you not to self-reject. Take a chance on yourself! I’m looking forward to seeing all the cool things you’re all working on!

What is #HiveMentor? #HiveMentor is a mentorship program by WriteHive for authors across all publishing paths—trad, self, and small press. Thayer than organized by genre, #HiveMentor keeps the focus on author’s writing careers.

What do you need to submit? In the application form, you will be asked to provide a submission package—including your full manuscript, a query letter or book blurb, and a 1-page synopsis.

Important dates
November 3-7 Mentor AMAs
November 13-16: Mentee Submission Window
November 13-December 30: Mentor reading window
January 1: Mentees announced

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It’s amazing that I ever get anything written.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I’m. @writehive.bsky.social mentor! My time as a mentee was vital in preparing me for the query trenches and beyond, and I’m so excited to have a chance to pay it forward. I can’t wait to see what y’all are working on! 💜 #HiveMentor

Text: If it’s our world with a little magic, a little extraordinary structure, or a little horror, I want to see it.
Send me your CONTEMPORARY FANTASY, your HORROR (especially SOUTHERN GOTHIC), your SCI FI that is more about the society than the hard science.

If it reads like Jules Arbeaux’s CAGE OF STARLIGHT, can be comped to anything by AIDEN THOMAS or feels like the movie HUSH…HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE, send it my way.

Open to: YA, NA, Adult

Important dates
November 3-7 Mentor AMAs
November 13-16th Mentee Submission Window
November 13-December 30 Mentor Reading Window
January 1 Mentees Announced!

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I went outside. I recommend it.

A bridge over a walking trail surrounded by green

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I fear she is going to struggle when I go out of town in October

A sweet black kitten curled up agains someone’s arm

A sweet black kitten sitting on someone’s lap. She leans her face against the person’s torso and looks up at the camera

A sweet back kitten curled up and sleeping against someone’s chest

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Manager: “Please turn on your cameras so we can see your smiling faces!” What my camera sees:

A sweet black kitten sitting on a person’s chest, blocking the person’s view of the camera

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Having cats means sometimes having to answer their riddles three before being able to use your bathroom

A sweet gray cat and a cute black kitten sitting on the tank of a toilet on either side of a toilet paper roll. A blue striped hand towel hangs between them. The black kitten looks directly at the camera, while the gray cat is giving a Kubrick stare. The image is both adorable and unsettling.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It’s Cat Day here are my babies

A sweet gray tabby sitting on a wooden floor looking off to one side. She’s regal. She’s beautiful. She’s never done anything wrong in her life

A little black kitten sitting on the lap of someone wearing gray sweatpants and looking intently at something out of frame. She is barely-contained chaos in an adorable, fuzzy package

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Got two books coming in today,so every time there’s a noise outside I’m at my window like

Meme image of Disney’s Snow White with her face pressed against a window in such a way that it’s pushing her nose and upper lip up. Text reads “Pakidge”

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We lost our good boy on Friday. I don’t think I’ve ever known a creature more full of love.

A sweet brown and cream furred dog with big brown eyes. He’s resting his head on someone’s arm and looking up expectantly

A sweet brown and cream furred dog stretched out on a wooden floor. A pretty gray tabby curls up next to him so they can nap together

A sweet brown and cream furred dog lying on a wooden floor next to a blue-gray cat tree. A little black kitten perches on the tree, inspecting the dog from above.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It’s been a couple weeks and Brontë has grown so much.

A little black kitten who is not nearly as little as she used to be. She reclines against someone’s blanket-covered leg as she looks at the camera

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Brontë turned off my work computer does that mean I can take the rest of the day off?

An unrepentant black kitten curled up in someone’s lap, looking at the camera with a “who, me?” Expression

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

So excited to help reveal the cover of @cj-dotson.bsky.social next book These Familiar Walls! The book comes out 4/14/26! Find it here: read.macmillan.com/lp/these-fam... #TheseFamiliarWalls

A green background with flames curling up from the bottom. On the left side, the cover of These Familiar Walls by CJ Dotson: dark green background with the green-tinged image of a house with light in the windows at the bottom and title text that looks like the letters are on fire. Text to the right reads “A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Catriona Ward. On sale April 14, 2026, St. Martin’s Press

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Why does she look like she’s about to engage in a hostile takeover of the board I love her

A pretty gray tabby sitting in a chair at the head of a table. She looks out over the surface unimpressed

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Just your regular Friday the 13th reminder that some people are assholes and will use today as an excuse to be cruel to black cats and dogs. Keep an eye on your babies today. 🖤

A little black kitten sprawling across someone’s lap and looking directly at the camera

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The cats are very good today

A little black kitten curled up in the crook of someone’s arm

A sweet gray tabby curled into a c shape on the middle level of a cat tree

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How am I supposed to get anything done?

A little black kitten with its paws stretched out asleep on someone’s lap

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Get you a guy who can do both (hit 10k on a project and be cat furniture)

Picture of a word count screen in Scrivener. Workout reads 10,009

A small black kitten perched on the neck of a white person with brown hair

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A little gothic girl on an adventure. (I love her so much)

A little black kitten perched on top of a pile of books

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Her name is Brontë, and I love her.

A little black kitten being cradled in someone’s arms

The same little black kitten curled up in someone’s crossed legs

The same little black kitten curled peeking her head out from part of a rolling desktop

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Shared the full spread elsewhere, so

Souvenir programs for the 1997 Les Mis tour, the 2001 Beauty & the Beast tour, the 2004 Les Mis tour, the 2004 Phantom of the Opera tour, the 2006 Chicago tour, Wicked on Broadway (2006), Les MIs on Broadway (2007), Spamalot on Broadway (2007)

Souvenir programs for Jersey Boys in Broadway (2007), Wicked in Chicago (2007), A Chorus Line 2009 tour, Les Mis 2025 tour

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

About to ascend to my final form (See Les Mis for the sixth time)

A souvenir program for the North American tour production of Les Miserables

The set for Les Mis: a painted backdrop that looks like a cloudy sky flanked by two wooden structures that look like the outsides of buildings

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

That’s is for Wrestle Posts tonight. Please enjoy these pictures of the neighborhood cats I feed.

A lovely tuxedo cat stretched out on a wooden porch

A pretty long haired-gray and tan cat with a tabby pattern loafing on a wooden porch

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

And that’s night 1 of Wrestlemania! As promised, here are the babies I met today! They are tiny and wriggly and precious. That’s it for Wrestle Posts tonight

Six newborn kittens curled up in a cardboard box. There are three dark gray kittens with a tabby pattern, one light gray with a tabby pattern, one that’s white with patches that have that dark gray tabby pattern, and one black kitten with white feet and a white belly. They are so small!

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hopefully reading this draft will feel less like a fist fight than writing it did

A laptop and a glass with a pinkish red liquid on a black table

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day here’s my spouse telling Rhea Ripley I have a crush on her.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Okay, that’s it for wrestle posting. Have a cat picture for your patience

A sweet gray tabby curled up in a cat tree. She’s looking off to the right of the frame.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Tag team 2 out of 3 falls next. DIY is one of my favorite tag teams. I’ve even met them! #ASWrestlePosts

Me and my spouse with the tag team DIY (Tomasso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano)

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Monthly cafe writing group. I am gonna finish this book this month.

A rose gold laptop and a maroon coffee cup filled with a latte sitting on a dark brown wooden table

A cheesey biscuit on blue and white checked paper in a plastic basket

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Them: ‘So what’s your book marketing strategy?’ Me:

Tony award winner Lin Manuel Miranda dressed up as pro wrestler Dominik Mysterio

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Somehow, the words are still wording. Somehow this book is STILL NOT DONE.

Image of a project target pane in Scrivener. The word count reads 70,339 of 110,000

Picture of a gray and white cat screaming at a brain on a white background. Text reads “why is book not done? Why is it so long?”

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I said “Let me check my notes” and she said “no.”

A sweet gray tabby sitting curled up on top of an open spiral notebook on the surface of a desk. I need to see the notebook she’s sitting on top of, but she clearly does not care.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My very first writing friend has her book out today, and I’m so glad other people are going to get to meet Nona

Amazon page for She’s a Natural by S.K. McBird. Cover depicts a young woman with blonde hair wearing blue coveralls standing in a junkyard facing away from the viewer. In the distant sky, what looks like an air jet ski flies overhead

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA x WWE Wrestler Georgia wants to prove she’s more than her famous dad’s legacy—but she keeps getting booked to lose. A masked stranger offers help by taking out the competition. George has championship dreams, but they’re going to require a hell of a heel turn #P2PPit #S #A #C

A series of images inspired by Phenom, a pro-wrestling retelling of Phantom of the Opera. Top left to right:pro wrestler Bayley destroying one of her inflatable Bayley Buddies, promotional image for Bianca Belair and Becky Lynch’s SummerSlam 2022 match. Middle left to right: promotional image for the Phantom of the Opera musical, promotional image for the 2019 NXT War Games event, the cover of Matt Wallace’s BUMP (illustration of a little girl in a lucha mask leaping from the top rope of a wrestling ring). Bottom: promotional image for Taylor Swift’s single “Look What You Made Me Do”

Six image grid. Top, left to right: pink neon text on a black background reading “ready or not,” a red rose, neon tubes in the shape of a lightning bolt on a black background. Bottom left to right: a femme athletic form in shadow, a figure in a mask holding a finger to their lips, a stone statue of an angel sitting on a gravestone. Pink text at the bottom reads “Phenom an adult Phantom of the Opera retelling in the world of wrestling by: AS Crowder represented by: Alex Brown @ Mad Woman Literary

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

1. Yayyy 50k 2. Omg I will never be done with this book

Scrivener project target pane showing a word count of 50,041 out of 110,000

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

One day I’m going to come up with a book idea that makes use of my special interest in the Tudor dynasty. One day.

An image on a television of a painting of a white woman in Tudor-era dress

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I don’t cook as a rule, but this turned out pretty good.

A white plate. On it, white rice, broccoli, and fish

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