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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 22/08/2026

#promosky ✍️ Writing (fiction & nonfiction) 🏳️‍🌈 Queer storytelling & Chosen Family 🎭 Character-driven storytelling 📖 Folklore & myth 🎲 TTRPGs (playing & narrative design) 🎶 Music (listening & writing to it) 🏺 Material culture & everyday history 🧬 Family history 🌿 Esoterica ashleighwritesbooks.com

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Ashleigh writes books – and spins tales

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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

they know we don't want it. they do not care.

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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Cruelty beyond grotesque.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 10/08/2026

From the opening scene of "Good Bones" a murder mystery set in he south end of the Puget Sound, Washington. Dr Anna Jones and LCDR Brooke Morningstar were married in Canada in 2007 when Anna was 20 weeks pregnant with their IVF-conceived child, Riley.

AI-generated image depicting the owners’ suite of the Mill House Bed & Breakfast on Eld Island, Washington. Brooke Morningstar stands in a white U.S. Navy officer’s Dress White uniform with ribbons and insignia, carrying a black case and holding a cane, while her wife Anna smiles at her from beside the bed. A large text panel reproduces their playful exchange about Anna’s love of seeing Brooke in uniform. The warmly furnished room overlooks the water and evergreen-covered shoreline, with decorative coastal and lighthouse motifs framing the scene.
At the left side of the image is a body of text that reads:
MILL HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST
Owner's Suite * Eld Island, Washington

Brooke had donned her Dress Whites, strapped on her sword, adjusted her cover, made certain her medals were properly aligned, picked up the package on the bureau, and, tucking it into a satchel beneath her arm, paused a moment before grasping the cane she rarely needed these days, thinking that with all of the standing and walking she would likely be in need of it sooner rather than later, then headed downstairs to join her waiting wife.

"Damn, Lieutenant Commander Morningstar! I do love a woman in uniform!" her wife greeted her as she came into view.

Slightly blushing, Brooke smiled at Anna and replied, "Yeah, I know, it was the uniform that attracted you in the first place. Except that was a librarian uniform, and you didn't know I was a veteran yet. Let's go. I don't know how long I can stand to be in this thing before I start to rip it off, and that would scandalize the Yacht Club bunch."

"Mmm, do tell. But I may hold you to that later. Are we taking the bus, or just walking, since it's only a few blocks?"

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 30/07/2026

I like big brushes and I cannot lie. You other pundits can't deny. When you paint a generation with one enormous stroke, I'm gonna ask where you bought that brush.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 24/07/2026

Working on a long-overdue update of the website. This was so much easier to mange when I was in my 40s. 🤣 Back then managing a dozen or more website was nothing. Of course I didn't sleep then, either. #booksky #writers

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 18/05/2026

Yeah … so #LeftCoastCrime2026 didn’t manifest in my budget and Good Bones did not get completed because of a major delay with Unseen, the first book in the historical fiction trilogy.

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MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🗺️ This is for everyone who has a #government that does horrible things in their name, who voted for a campaign promise but got nothing or the opposite, who has been disappointed repeatedly, who feels unheard, or who never even got a chance to vote at all! #Politics #Design #CC0 Madeindex.org 1/2

Design of a waving black flag on a red background. It has "MY GOVERNMENT DOES NOT REPRESENT ME" written on it.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 07/05/2026

Some thoughts on Erdelezi - the song and the day. Spring/early Summer observances around the world have so many similarities. substack.com/@ashleighwri...

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Some thoughts on Erdelezi - the song and the day. Spring/early Summer observances around the world have so many similarities.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 08/04/2026

41k words into the rebuild. Prologue, Epilogue, & first 3 chapters complete. Sadly, those are the easy ones. Not much changed from the early versions of those. No one to blame but myself… well, & Loki. It’s always Loki’s fault. Just ask Thor. He’ll confirm. 🤭 Hush, Loki. You know I love you. 1/2

Screen capture of Scrivener corkboard showing project folders and files for the novel "Unseen", book one of the trilogy "The Dream That Carried Us" by Ashleigh Renée

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 24/03/2026

Once again, voices from the past… (I am a fan of much of David Horsey’s content.) www.seattletimes.com/opinion/our-...

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Some wisdom from President No. 2 for President No. 47

John Adams feared a dishonest and ignorant man in the White House.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 14/03/2026

This was one of the albums that was in my Bandcamp recommendations email this morning. Of all, this one caught my attention for the title , so I gave it a try. If you like it drop some more for it. #music #bandcamp damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/album/whats-...

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What's Past is Prologue (live at Café Oto), by Damon & Naomi

8 track album

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 13/03/2026

An interesting thread. I know several trans men and women who have struggled with accessing treatment, and coercion to deny their identity, but none who actually regret transitioning. Most say it was the best decision they ever made. Almost all say they are alive today because they did.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 11/03/2026

Seriously panicking. Somehow the final version of the novel that needs to go to Ingram by next week is missing. I am terrified that during the recent two weeks of insomnia and mental fog that in cleaning up the working and draft files I have deleted everything. #Unseen #booksky 1/2

Cover for the historical fiction novel Unseen by Ashleigh Renée.
A dark, smoke covered ske with the figure of a young girl running from the destruction behind her. Text above UNSEEN
test below in a black band “THE DREAM THAT CARRIED U(PART ONE)
Beneath the Ashleigh Renée

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 11/03/2026

This song dropped on my Daily Discovery playlist today on Tidal, and I’m enraptured. It’s a lovely variation on “Counting Crows” that I’ve not heard before #music tidal.com/track/241459...

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The Unthanks - Magpie

Listen to Magpie on TIDAL

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 06/03/2026

Typos. The bane of my existence. Why, when this iPhone is constantly turning predictive text back on after I disable it, is it still unable to note and remedy a simple typographical error like “U” instead of “I”? #rhetoricalquestions

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 06/03/2026

What U said on the other account…

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 20/02/2026

So, which is it? The Department of Jokes? Department of Jerks? Department of Jacka**** Because it is anything but Justice. Hmm. DOJ running out of attorneys. Like rats off a sinking ship. Aha - it's the sinking of the Department of Juicitania?

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 17/02/2026

Feeling gutted by the news of Robert Duvall's passing. So many of his film roles are iconic in my memory. But the ones I remember best are Frank Burns and Tom Hagen.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 17/02/2026

I've only just been inroduced to the music of this ensemble, and I am loving it. Bio & Press — Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble www.kitka.org/biopress

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Bio & Press — Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble

Bio & Press

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Doodlebloom - COMMISSIONS OPEN ❗️ @doodlebloomm1.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Hope you guys don't mind the bump... Really need it - if you don't need any art atm, please consider a repost. It helps a ton to get discovered. #commissionsopen #anime #artistonbluesky #writer #gamers

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 11/02/2026

I have a publishing question fo those friends & acquaintances who would know, I'm fefusing to deal with Amazon KDP. Looking at both Lulu & Direct2Print for offering print versions of my books. Anyone have advices? Procs/Cons/suggstions? I've go the ebook part settled already. #booksky #IndieAuthors

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 02/02/2026

We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Nicola Griffith Mat Johnson Fonda Lee Darcie Little Badger Peter Rock Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 31/01/2026

Oh, look...another distraction from the DOJ/ICE overreach. and still not the full release of the Epstein files, by any count. Don't believe the lies. Don't be distracted by the smoke and mirrors. Impeach and convict a corrupt government.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
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FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 26/01/2026

Think globally, vote locally.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 24/01/2026

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 24/01/2026

I was going to try and be upbeat today. I don’t know if it’s possible. I will try again tomorrow.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 14/01/2026

Unseen has a tentative release date of April 2026. It follows the story of a young Romani girl who survives the eradication of the “Gypsy Family Camp” at Auschwit-Birkenau.

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 14/01/2026

Yes, I indulge myself on AO3...

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 11/01/2026

Heard a song this morning on my drive to Seattle. It’s not new, but one I hadn’t heard before. Well, the song, anyway. The story? Yeah. Old news. Married to a woman. Woman myself. Three female bodied (now adult) children. So. Dedicated to all men named in #TheEpsteinFiles youtube.com/watch?v=Aa_B...

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When Will I Be Mine? Lyrics

YouTube video by Hailey Orion

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

WATCH — @pabloreports.bsky.social : “Any reaction to the White House blaming the police for the violence on 1/6?” @crockett.house.gov : “They’re trying to rewrite history. It’s a disgrace.”

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ByAshleighRenée @byashleighrenee.com · 05/01/2026

Reason #8784794504561 why I may not immediately erspnd to people... memnapped from the Book of F@ces

white text on black background: Hey sorry it too me 6 days to get back to your text, I myself am undersaffed at the moment lol

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