Ask the Author: Ashe Barker
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Ashe Barker
Hi Pam. I'm glad you enjoyed Raven. The companion book is Falcon, which can be found in the sister anthology, Once Upon A Pirate. Or you could wait a little longer and I will release both books together in one volume.
Ashe Barker
It has to be Narnia!
The Narnia stories were some of the first I read for myself as a child and I have always been fascinated by the mix of good and evil. Maybe that's why I enjoy reading dark romance now...
The Narnia stories were some of the first I read for myself as a child and I have always been fascinated by the mix of good and evil. Maybe that's why I enjoy reading dark romance now...
Ashe Barker
Hi Angie. There isn't at the moment, but maybe I should write it. I'm about to re-publish all the Black Combe trilogies as an indie, so now's the time to do an overhaul and maybe re-visit the series.
I'm glad you enjoyed Sure Mastery enough to want to re-read it
I'm glad you enjoyed Sure Mastery enough to want to re-read it
Ashe Barker
Hi Mieke. First, I must apologise for the delay in replying. I rarely come onto Goodreads I'm afraid. If you are still struggling to obtain the books you want please feel free to email me direct - my email address is on my website - and I can let you have a price for purchasing the epub copies direct from me.
Ashe Barker
Hi Nicky. I just got the rights back to The Hardest Word and will be re-releasing it as an indie with some new content and under a new title (Hard Limits). You'll be able to get it on kindle. Unfortunately I won't be doing that until next year as I want to re-release The Dark Side and Sure Mastery first.
If you really can't wait I have a small number of paperback copies of the original version and you could purchase those direct from me if you like.
If you really can't wait I have a small number of paperback copies of the original version and you could purchase those direct from me if you like.
Ashe Barker
Hi Bea. I'm really pleased that you liked the first two trilogies in the Black Combe set. The Hardest Word and A Richness of Swallows complete the set.
Currently I have the debut novel in Totally Bound's Totally Five Star series which has just been released, and Red Skye at Night, a standalone novel, comes out on Friday 6 February. Right now I have two works in progress - a short story for TB's Over The Knee anthology, and another standalone novel with a strong BDSM theme but no title as yet
Currently I have the debut novel in Totally Bound's Totally Five Star series which has just been released, and Red Skye at Night, a standalone novel, comes out on Friday 6 February. Right now I have two works in progress - a short story for TB's Over The Knee anthology, and another standalone novel with a strong BDSM theme but no title as yet
Ashe Barker
Hi Robin
Faith is a stand alone novel. There might be more trilogies in the future, but just now I'm concentrating on stand alones, and have a few of these lining up.
I hope you like Faith - let me know what you think.
Cheers
Ashe
Faith is a stand alone novel. There might be more trilogies in the future, but just now I'm concentrating on stand alones, and have a few of these lining up.
I hope you like Faith - let me know what you think.
Cheers
Ashe
Ashe Barker
Hi Lola
Ideally you would read The Hardest Word first. The series' were written in that order, but I don't think it will matter that much. There are common characters and scenes, though where these happen they are told from another viewpoint.
I'm glad you're enjoying A Richness of Swallows, and if you like that I think you'll find Freya and Nick just as much fun whichever order you read them in.
Enjoy.
Ashe
Ideally you would read The Hardest Word first. The series' were written in that order, but I don't think it will matter that much. There are common characters and scenes, though where these happen they are told from another viewpoint.
I'm glad you're enjoying A Richness of Swallows, and if you like that I think you'll find Freya and Nick just as much fun whichever order you read them in.
Enjoy.
Ashe
Ashe Barker
A book which is to be released early in 2015 starts with a chance meeting in the Moroccan desert. A Berber peasant on a donkey passes an engineer doing a geological survey. Worlds apart, they couldn't possibly have anything in common apart from the fact they are in the same place at the same time, each with a perfectly good reason to be there. They nod to each other and go about their business. But not for long. She is not what she seems.
This is based around a true incident which actually took place in Turkey. For some reason I can't now recall I was sitting in an air-conditioned coach in a car park somewhere near Cappadocia. A speck appeared on the road in the distance, which got bigger. it became a head, then two heads. A woman, wrapped in a shawl, on a donkey. She could have been lifted straight from Ben Hur. Nothing about her would have looked out of place two thousand years ago.
She passed me, looked up. I nodded, she did too. She waved, I waved back. Then she carried on her way and I never saw her again.
Where else, I wondered afterward, could two people whose lives were so different meet, neither one be in the least surprised to see the other, exchange a friendly greeting, and continue on their way? The image stuck with me, until twenty years later I wove it into a story.
Look out for Chameleon, due for general release 2.1.15
This is based around a true incident which actually took place in Turkey. For some reason I can't now recall I was sitting in an air-conditioned coach in a car park somewhere near Cappadocia. A speck appeared on the road in the distance, which got bigger. it became a head, then two heads. A woman, wrapped in a shawl, on a donkey. She could have been lifted straight from Ben Hur. Nothing about her would have looked out of place two thousand years ago.
She passed me, looked up. I nodded, she did too. She waved, I waved back. Then she carried on her way and I never saw her again.
Where else, I wondered afterward, could two people whose lives were so different meet, neither one be in the least surprised to see the other, exchange a friendly greeting, and continue on their way? The image stuck with me, until twenty years later I wove it into a story.
Look out for Chameleon, due for general release 2.1.15
Ashe Barker
Most of my stories are crafted around a character or incident that I've encountered somewhere. It may be a small thing, a meeting, a conversation, a bizarre sequence of events, but these can give rise to all sort of imaginative conjurings.
Ashe Barker
I'm currently writing a M/M novella, the first foray of mine into this pairing so It's something of a challenge but I'm always up for that.
My next project will be a medieval spanking romance, and after that something contemporary. I have some ideas for a female plumber (readers might remember her from The Three Rs - she has a story to tell)
My next project will be a medieval spanking romance, and after that something contemporary. I have some ideas for a female plumber (readers might remember her from The Three Rs - she has a story to tell)
Ashe Barker
Read a lot, and just have a go. Try to write something that YOU would like to read. If, when you read it back, it makes you react then it's probably going to have that effect on others too.
Ashe Barker
There are so many things I love about being a writer that it's hard to pick one as THE best. A couple of things that do it for me are :
I can work at home, at my pace, in my time. That often means I'm at the computer till late at night. I work longer hours than I ever did when I worked for wages, but I enjoy what I do a lot more.
I never get tired of the thrill of seeing my books in print. We all love our kindles, I know that, but to hold a book in my hand with my name on the front... sheer magic.
I can work at home, at my pace, in my time. That often means I'm at the computer till late at night. I work longer hours than I ever did when I worked for wages, but I enjoy what I do a lot more.
I never get tired of the thrill of seeing my books in print. We all love our kindles, I know that, but to hold a book in my hand with my name on the front... sheer magic.
Ashe Barker
I very rarely get writer's block. On the rare occasions I'm not sure what's coming next in a story I just sit at the laptop and start writing. It usually flows, though not always as fast as I'd like
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