Ash Litton's Blog

It's finally happening.

My first novel.

Uncertain Heirs, the fantasy/steampunk novel I've been working towards publishing for years, is finally launching. 

It'll be available in paperback for $15.99 and on Kindle for $9.99 (available now for pre-order). If you want to collect both, buy the paperback first , then select Matchbook for a $2.99 Kindle version! If you have Amazon Prime, you'll be able to read it through KindleUnlimited for free!

You'll notice there's now a separate "Novels" page l...

I know, I know. I've been AWOL for the past year. I'm trying to be better. I'm trying to live better. And as such, I've got a new face, new body, and new ebook out to celebrate!


Pick up your copy of No Diet, No Surgery, No Sweat: How I Lost 85 lbs & 4 Pants Sizes, available now on Amazon Kindle and Smashwords!

But is actually a line that looks like a toddler attempted to draw a squiggly storm cloud. We have to follow the Muse, and if the Muse whips out an unfinished manuscript in the middle of another unfinished manuscript, well . . .

You gotta do what you gotta do. And in my case, I'm doing what I can to finish Comedy of Rain, but I also have to obey the Muse and get back to other things, like No Signal or the Queen of Seasons quintet, which haven't been touched in a dog's age. Since I don't have m...

Greetings, everyone! Apologies for the lack of posting last month, but life got in the way and I wasn't able to get things posted like normal. On the upside, today I'm bringing my last interview with HT Lyon, an author aspiring to write some near-future, hard science fiction based on technology rooted in contemporary science. His work focuses on creating as much realism as possible, so that means no FTL travel, artificial gravity, aliens, etc., but he does this with Economics as his...

And that's certainly true whenever we're trying to hammer away at an ending that's been eluding us.

I'm sure you all remember my many promises to have Comedy of Rain done long ago, but what with writer's block and my recent illness this past Spring, progress got pushed further and further back. On the plus side, at least I was able to sew up some plot holes and brainstorm how to get some of my original ideas back into the ending.

See, I had to go back and restructure things from about chap...

As part of my continuing series of spotlighting fellow authors, this month I'll be interviewing Imogen Keeper.

I had the pleasure of meeting Immy through a critiquing website, and by an exchange, I got to read her Sci-Fi Romance/Erotica novel, The Bonding , before she debuted it. The novel, which is about a princess sent into space in order to save her people, focuses on the unusual bonding between a tribal space warrior and said princess. A bonding rooted in collar-loosening, hand-fanning erot...

Aside from the ones I make, that is.

One of the best things about being a self-publishing author is that I can pick and choose my release dates, blog dates, etc. based upon my own schedule. Being sick these past two months made me realize that more so now than before.

There's always a catch, though. For me, a fair bit of my platform is automated. In this day and age, technology makes it easy for me to prep my posts in advance, and then I just set them up to post either weekly or monthly (depend...

Apologies everyone, but this spring has been killer for allergies and stomach bugs, and I'm behind on so much (blog posts included). No major updates to report, so I'm going to finish mending and getting back into the groove of editing Comedy of Rain. Chat soon!

April was a bad month for me. I went from a sinus infection to fluid buildup on my ears to a horrible stomach virus. Needless to say, my writing has been suffering because of it.

When I last left off, I was deep into the edits of Comedy of Rain, compiling notes for major changes, altering snippets here and there, cleaning up verbosity, and—most importantly—seeding Kadiza's proper motivation where it was lacking. It's starting to feel more like Kadiza's story, as it should, and I'm so happy for...

As part of my continuing series of spotlighting fellow authors, this month I'll be interviewing Tullio Pontecorvo.

Tullio's an author who believes the greatest virtue of speculative fiction is the Socratic exercise. Suppose blank: what are your choices, what are your beliefs? In his view, a good speculative story can tell you more about yourself as a reader than about the author who crafted it, because it doesn't beat you on the head with a stick: it confronts you with a complex situation akin...