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Ash Finley

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Romance, Contemporary, Young Adult

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I'm an author in Brooklyn, trying to promote my first book, Unsound. Unsound is a 20+ year project and I'm so proud of where it is now from where it was in 1999 coming out of a 14-year-old brain.

I just finished writing the sequel, Unconscious.
I'm also working on a new project that is fantasy-based. Urban fantasy meets modern-day Brooklyn with fairies.

I love music, my latest obsessions being Bastille, 21 Pilots, Old Dominion, Dan+Shay, and AJR. I love having the radio play all day long in the background. I love old school WB: Buffy, Dawson's Creek, Charmed, just to name a few.

And most importantly, I'm constantly reading. After all, Stephen King said: “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write ...more

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Just wanted to say THANK YOU for each and every one of you who leaves a review. Even those 2 and 3 star with no explanation of what Unsound was lacking for them. I APPRECIATE YOU ALL

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Operation I Do? (For Keeps #2)

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Ash Finley liked Diana's review of Unsound: "Review This book was very well written and I read it with ease. The author has a way of writing each character that pulls you in so you empathize with their situation. I wish I had read the synopsis before reading the book because it is about teenage" Read more of this review »
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Ash Finley and 198 other people liked A. 's review of Ain't She Sweet?: "5 Stars I'm blown away. Suddenly all other books look pale in comparison. Even those I've five-starred before. You know that saying about readers and different tastes? I wish it wasn't true. Because I want all of you to see its beauty. I want all of you" Read more of this review »
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Ash Finley liked Saundra Wright's review of Unsound: "Gripping novel. This was amazing. The world building was simple and realistic. However, from the beginning, these characters make for a gripping novel. Their joy is as uplifting as their pain and trauma are gutting. This story, their stories, will st" Read more of this review »
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Ash Finley liked Samantha Rodriguez's review of Unsound: "I’ll never get over a book that breaks you in the best ways. Unsound was soo good and I just couldn’t put it down once I started reading it. Getting to know each of the individual characters and their stories while seeing how they all flowed together " Read more of this review »
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