Ask the Author: Clare Ashton
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Clare Ashton
Hi! Thanks for your question 🙂
I don't have any full-length novels planned for the Oxford characters, but I may write a few short stories to fill in gaps or scenes which happen off the page in the trilogy.
It's lovely to hear you enjoy my books! Thank you 🙂❤️
I don't have any full-length novels planned for the Oxford characters, but I may write a few short stories to fill in gaps or scenes which happen off the page in the trilogy.
It's lovely to hear you enjoy my books! Thank you 🙂❤️
Clare Ashton
Yes! I'm working on it right now and I'm hoping it will be out later this spring 🙂
Clare Ashton
Yes it is 🙂
Clare Ashton
Hi!
Yes! I'm writing the third book (with that couple🙂) and aiming for a Spring publication.
Yes! I'm writing the third book (with that couple🙂) and aiming for a Spring publication.
Clare Ashton
Hi!
Thanks for your question 🙂
I hope to have both Poppy and The Goodmans out on audio at some point. For now, Finding Jessica Lambert, The Tell Tale, and That Certain Something are all available and Meeting Millie will be out next month 🙂
Thanks for your question 🙂
I hope to have both Poppy and The Goodmans out on audio at some point. For now, Finding Jessica Lambert, The Tell Tale, and That Certain Something are all available and Meeting Millie will be out next month 🙂
Clare Ashton
Hi!
Sorry about the slow response. Yes! Tantor are producing the audiobook. It's out in August and I can't wait to hear what it's like!
https://tantor.com/finding-jessica-la...
Best wishes,
Clare Ashton
Sorry about the slow response. Yes! Tantor are producing the audiobook. It's out in August and I can't wait to hear what it's like!
https://tantor.com/finding-jessica-la...
Best wishes,
Clare Ashton
Clare Ashton
I'm writing right now and hoping to have a romance out this year! Fingers crossed!
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Clare Ashton
Hi!
Thanks for the question.
I’d originally been working on a crime story set in a Wintery Wales (I grew up in Wales), with a protagonist that returns to her childhood home and faces her past, including a relationship with a woman (who still lives in the village) and the bigotry she faced.
But I found my heart wasn’t in it. I kept wanting to remember the long hot summers of my childhood, eating ice cream, paddling in streams and running around the lush beautiful countryside.
So I turned the entire story on its head. Crime turned to romance. I swapped the prodigal-daughter-returns main character for the optimistic girl next door who stayed home. Winter became summer. And dwelling on past bigotry became a celebration of how much has changed and how far gay rights have come.
And I’m so glad I did. It’s a book that still makes me happy when I think about it and the trip down memory lane to see people and places I adored when I was young was magical for me.
Thanks again for your question :)
Clare
Thanks for the question.
I’d originally been working on a crime story set in a Wintery Wales (I grew up in Wales), with a protagonist that returns to her childhood home and faces her past, including a relationship with a woman (who still lives in the village) and the bigotry she faced.
But I found my heart wasn’t in it. I kept wanting to remember the long hot summers of my childhood, eating ice cream, paddling in streams and running around the lush beautiful countryside.
So I turned the entire story on its head. Crime turned to romance. I swapped the prodigal-daughter-returns main character for the optimistic girl next door who stayed home. Winter became summer. And dwelling on past bigotry became a celebration of how much has changed and how far gay rights have come.
And I’m so glad I did. It’s a book that still makes me happy when I think about it and the trip down memory lane to see people and places I adored when I was young was magical for me.
Thanks again for your question :)
Clare
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