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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery

@ashleydwrites.bsky.social
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Writer, mom, advocate. Loves bright colors, Halloween, rainy days, and old houses. I write romcoms and cozy mysteries as an escape from the daily experience of living with a chronic illness. www.networkisa.org/profile/ashley-d…

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Erin Savage @erinsavage.bsky.social · 12h
Good morning bluesky!
Old photos of various celebrity women sporting the popular bob with flipped ends hairstyle of the 90s and early 2000s
Caption: You just had to be there
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 12h
Welcome to #DVpit 2026! Now until 8:00PM Eastern unagented marginalized creators can pitch their unpublished project in 300 characters to participating literary agents & editors! Remember ❤️ are for agents & 🔁 are for editors! Good luck! Have fun & please be respectful! More info dvpit.carrd.co
#DVpit 2026
September 30, 2026
8:00AM - 8:00PM Eastern Time
A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
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find rules & more info at dvpit.carrd.co
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This scaredy cat is watching Widow’s Bay!
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Widows Bay Show
Alt: Queen PATRICIA pouring a glass of red wine.
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Went to the park today and during my walk I saw monarchs, dragonflies, LARPers, a bride and groom, and a couple attempting acrobatics. Great day.
Sprawling branches of a live oak on a sunny day.
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Adele @theartofcharts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today's essential reading.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I realized when I saw this headline that Jeff Hiller is perfect casting for basically any Peanuts character. Let him play every character you cowards.
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Rachel Dratch, Jeff Hiller Complete the Cast of Encores! You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The company is also replacing the previously announced Hallelujah, Baby! with the Gershwins' Let 'Em Eat Cake .
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My script is based on a small village called Mistletoe in the mountains of Kentucky where my family is from. There was a post office where people would travel from all over to get the Mistletoe postmark stamped on their Christmas cards. I added some holiday magic and whimsy ✨ #screenpit #scriptsky
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Jesse @jessedofficial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
THE SPLITTER AND THE JOINER (short film) An ancient couple with mystical powers to heal and destroy live peacefully on their mountain until a coal mining company threatens their land. #Screenpit #Scriptsky #Su #Fy #Sho #SeRe #WrWo #WrDis #ISA
Movie poster showing a forest path with text overlay: The Splitter and the Joiner, a short film script by Jesse and Ashley Darland
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BOOK PEOPLE 📚❤️ When a famous writer is fired by his publisher, he escapes to a small island where he falls in love with a bookstore owner struggling to stay in business. For fans of Gilmore Girls and You've Got Mail. #ScreenPit #Scriptsky #RoCo #4Q #WrDis #LBu #Div #Fea
Poster for my script BOOK PEOPLE, a romantic comedy. Sepia toned books in the background. Neon yellow brushed font for the title (Book People).
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WISH UPON A CHRISTMAS STAR 🎄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A professional holiday decorator hired for a job at a Scottish castle finds a magical star that transports her to the 1800s, where things get complicated when she meets a dashing laird. (If Outlander and Hallmark Christmas movies had a baby) #screenpit #LBu #Hldy #4Q
Poster for my script WISH UPON A CHRISTMAS STAR. 3 images: a brass clock, a couple in 19th century clothing at a dance, and a castle surrounded by snow and water.
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Lauri Jon Caravella @laurijon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
PAINTED IN POSITANO: In search of a new identity after divorce, an empty nest artist repaints her life in Positano. When she lives out the scenes she paints, she gets caught up in the chaos of magically controlling lives. [EAT PRAY LOVE-UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN] #screenpit #Fea #Ro #scriptsky
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Stacey Russell (she/they) @staceycrussell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
THE OPEN AIR To avoid a home for adults with disabilities, a young man with Down syndrome tricks his sister into a trip through the South Island of New Zealand to find the rest of their family, and themselves. Actor Cole Sibus attached! 2027 Sundance lab 2nd round (so far!) #screenpit
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Victoria Male @victoriamale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHOWSTOPPER: A director in 1950s Hollywood risks his life's work to defend his estranged wife against anti-communist attacks while making the biggest film of his career. The untold story of Gene Kelly & the making of Singin' In The Rain during the Red Scare. A 2023 Nicholl Finalist #screenpit
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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When their mom is diagnosed with terminal cancer, a pair of siblings gamble on an experimental treatment to “fix” their estranged MAGA parents in order to bring the family together one last time. But things turn deadly when the administering doctor arrives with her own agenda. #Screenpit #Fea #Ho
REUNIFICATION, a feature by Leah Simmons

"What if there was a cure."

and it's a picture of a red pill
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
💌 The Magical Mailbox of Mistletoe ✨ When a magical mailbox that sends letters to Santa is stolen, a small-town mail carrier teams up with a handsome stranger from the North Pole to catch the thieves before Christmas. Pitched/Requested #ScreenPit #Scriptsky #RoCo #4Q #Fea #Div #SeRe #Hldy #My
A mood board for my holiday script THE MAGICAL MAILBOX OF MISTLETOE
-a postal service employee scanning a package
-a man staring at a murder board
-a red North Pole mailbox
-a happy couple holding hands in the snow
-a bundle of mistletoe
-a Dear Santa letterDesigned like an envelope with a candy cane border and a post office seal. THE MAGICAL MAILBOX OF MISTLETOE in cursive font. Underneath: A holiday romcom by Ashley and Jesse Darland.
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Incredible premise. This needs to be made. #scriptsky
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I read an early draft of Lisa's script. Laugh out loud funny and full of shenanigans. #scriptsky
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MERRIER WITH A TERRIER 🎄 A new-in-town music teacher under pressure to put on the perfect Christmas concert and a single dad chemist are forced to attend obedience classes or get kicked out of the neighborhood when their terriers stir up trouble during the holidays. #ScreenPit #RoCo #4Q #Fea #Hldy
Poster for my screenplay MERRIER WITH A TERRIER. Red background, two Christmas trees, and two terriers: a Westie and a Scottie. Twinkly stars for some added whimsy.
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The Peach Pod @thepeachpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Autumn Equinox!
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P.S. Literary Agency @psliterary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages." —Barbara Kingsolver
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Contemporary London- based painter Charlotte Hardy #Womensart
Painting of a teapot with twigs with blossoms protruding out of the top, next to two tea cups on a blue table
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I should like to be Poet Laureate of Buc-ee's.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'Transcend' from Gemma Matthews, aka The Sewing Songbird, contemporary embroidery artist who creates free hand pieces #WomensA
Circular embroidery featuring a white female ballet dancer surrounded by flowers under a full moon
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thankful for screenwriter friends @phendrickson.bsky.social and @lisepyles.bsky.social and the amazing notes they provide. 🩷 #scriptsky
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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Whimsy is revolution, rest is rebellion and creativity is resistance.
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Maybe the next South Carolina senator will answer their phones. I have called Lindsey Graham’s office pretty regularly since 2017. His staffers never answered the phones and didn’t respond to messages. Graham’s legacy: he never wanted to hear from his constituents.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 06/07/2026
Believe women.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Maija Isola (1927– 2001) Finnish designer of printed textiles who created over 500 patterns, including Unikko ("Poppy") #womensart
Fabric design with repeated simple red and pink flower motifs against a white background
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Tammy @tlowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” ‘The New Colossus’. She is: Mother of Exiles. Her name: The Statue of Liberty. #America250
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 04/07/2026
The Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD) condemns recent attacks on the integration mandate: “This effort to nullify the civil rights of people with disabilities must be soundly rejected.” Full statement: www.c-c-d.org/fichiers/CCD...
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
How young is too young to for Godzilla? My son is begging me to watch. I’m not a monster movie person so I haven’t got a clue.
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Kara Schlegl @karaschlegl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I know it's unfashionable to label characters as neurodivergent when they aren't diagnosed, but I truly feel that "The Other Bennet Sister" is a love letter to autistic women and girls everywhere, and I am so grateful for it.
Mary Bennet, sitting on a chair, looking out a window with a soft light on her face.
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I subscribed to Britbox for The Other Bennet Sister. What else should I be watching? #tvsky
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Marshlands at Sundown (1908) by US painter Alice Pike Barney #WomensArt
Painting featuring a purple and blue twilight landscape with a view over reedy marshes towards hills and a darkening sky
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Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
someone on tumblr said it better than i could
I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
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Jesse @jessedofficial.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hey #scriptsky - looking for advice. What’s the best way to format a text message in a screenplay? Is it dialogue, or action?
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Happy 100th to Paul Lynde. He deserved better than a closeted, “too busy for a wife” life, but still managed to be funny as hell on stage, film, sitcoms, game shows, cartoons, and variety shows for 30 years. #BOTD #TVSky #pride
A 1970s magazine article w/ a ridiculous premise
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
'Night Clocks' by contemporary printmaker Lisa Benson #WomensArt
Print featuring a field full of grasses and dandilion seed heads under a dark sky and full moon
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wrote 1k words yesterday on my WIP! Today: making bruschetta from garden tomatoes 🍅
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Bright colors for Friday 🌈
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I voted!! Let’s send Lindsey Graham home. He doesn’t want to hear from his constituents (I should know, I have been calling his office for years and his staff members never pick up the phone). South Carolinians, get out and vote for change!!
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DishonoredLady @dishonoredlady.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#SummerOfDarkness starts tonight (and Sat. night) with fabulous #FilmNoir lineups on @tcmtv.bsky.social to kick off the festivities. Catch The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa, and the classic romcom road trip Detour (1945) w/ Tom Neal & Ann Savage. #TCMParty #TCM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
'The Sun' from the Tarot cards, by Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington #WomensArt
Painted illustration featuring a white fiure on a white horse holding a red flag under a large sun in a gold landscape
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Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“The ACE Basin stands out as one of the last remaining bastions of traditional Lowcountry landscape, culture, and community.” —Robby Maynor reports on the fight to protect the ACE Basin from becoming the site of a data center complex. 🔗: shorturl.at/vkjhB
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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
📽 Beautiful shot from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958)
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A couple of ox eye daisies near Ely👇🏼. When we look at images of landscapes & plants we recover from stress 60% more quickly, so this is for your brain if you’re strung out rn 🌿:
Many hundreds of ox eye daisies in a meadow near Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK. To the top right of the photo is a green lush hedgerow and above is a blue sky with white clouds.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/05/2026
This is Eddie. He has been waving for over a decade and has gotten pretty good. Can even do it with both paws. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: the_adorable_eddie)
a white jack russell terrier with one tan ear and eye sits on a lush green hill with the ocean in the background. he's wearing a dolphin harness and waves at the camera with his right paw. all of his toe beans are on clear display.Eddie sits on a rock with the ocean in the distant background. he's wearing a Lilo and Stitch harness. he waves at you with his front right paw, his ears flopping and his tongue poking out.Eddie sits on a beach with both front paws in the air. all of his toe beans are covered in sand.
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Ashley is writing a cozy murder mystery @ashleydwrites.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My hip finally popped back in after being partially dislocated for a week. #EhlersDanlosSyndrome
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Hallelujah: Woman Celebrating
Alt: Elaine from Seinfeld with her hands up in the air celebrating. The word Hallelujah is at the bottom.
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Girl Interrupter @girlinterrupter.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
West and Amanda. #SummerHouse
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Dedra Meero: You Disgust Me (Star Wars Andor)
ALT: Dedra Meero: You Disgust Me (Star Wars Andor)
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🍂🪦ℭ𝔥𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔵, ℭ𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔅𝔯𝔢𝔴 & ℭ𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔰🪦🍂 @chthonix.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Do not allow perfection to get in the way of the good.
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