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An American author of great repute, Kristen Ashley is well regarded for her easily accessible and entertaining brand of romance. Taking a humorous approach to her subjects, she manages to attain a populist appeal with her light-hearted and easy going books. This is a career that has run for some time now and shows no signs of slowing down with more books planned on the horizon.
Early and Personal Life
Growing up in the city of Gary in Indiana, Kristen Ashley had all American upbringing as she grew up in middle-class surroundings. With a keen interest in writing early on, she honed her craft over the years as it was always what she wanted to do. Learning humor and romance, she schooled herself in the genre, whilst proving herself adept within the many different areas. Moving around as a child from places as varied as Colorado to Denver and even to the West County of England, she’s managed to gain a wide-range of experience during her lifetime. Meeting a whole array of different characters, she’s drawn from it all putting it back into her work, thus bringing her material to life on the page. Growing up mainly in Brownsburg though, she managed to intake life on their farm there, a lifestyle that gave her plenty of time to work on her writing.
With her various awards and nominations, Kristen Ashley continues to write to this very day creating her unique brand of light-hearted romance. Currently still writing continuously, she has plenty more material to come yet as theres still a lot more potential within her work as she carries on expanding upon it. Stating that there’s definitely more books on the horizon, she’s going to carry on writing from now into the foreseeable future.
Writing Career
Publishing her first book, Rock Chick, on the 8th of December, 2008, Kristen Ashley went about setting up her initial Rock Chick series overall. Creating what was to be her own empire, she managed to become a literary sensation within her own right, finding her audience and the critics highly welcoming. This set also helped to set the tone for a lot of her work to come, allowing her to establish a new and relevant voice.
At the current time she has created a number of ongoing series and franchises over the course of her entire writing career. From ‘Rock Chicks’ to ‘The ‘Burg Series’, she has produced ongoing characters that have connected with audiences and readers worldwide. Her most recent, the ‘Colorado Mountains’ series, is still ongoing at this very moment, with more to to be released shortly. As well as hitting the top of the bestseller lists though and gaining herself an international appeal, she’s also managed to garner the attention of the critics too. With a number of awards for her work, she’s attracted a mass of praise for her contributions to genre. This is attention that’s come from both the readers and the critics alike, as it’s grown alongside her career.
Producing work at an exponential rate, she has managed to construct a vibrant and well established writing career for herself. Attending events, conventions along with book-signings, she maintains her exposure levels well, with a keen eye for marketing. Not only that, but she keeps a steady relationship with her fans meeting them, and this is something that will continue as her career progresses.
Mystery Man
Initially published in 2011 on the 12th of July, this was the novel that was to start Kristen Ashley’s ‘Dream Man’ series, a new collection of books that she was to bring out. With over four books in the series so far overall, it was to prove popular with audiences with its winning combination of suspense and romance. Creating fast, vibrant and fun characters Ashley remembers that the key ingredient to good fiction is relatable people reacting to situations in believable ways, however out of the ordinary their surroundings may otherwise be.
Gwendolyn Kidd is a young urban woman who is out one night drinking a succession of cosmopolitans when she meets someone she feels to be the man of her dreams. After going home with him they spend the night together at hers, leaving her to wake up finding herself alone, with him disappeared completely. Later he turns up again though night after night, as they continually spend the night together like before, only for him to leave mysteriously as she came. That’s when her troublesome sister turns up informing her that she’s soon to be dead if she can’t get her act together as she’s got into some trouble. Attempting to help her, Gwen enlists the help of her mysterious man, Hawk, as he turns out to be quite a tough-talker when she actually gets to know him. This is what they need though when facing the Denver underground bikers, leading to Hawk wanting to take things seriously, whilst Gwen isn’t too sure as they find themselves thrust into a variety of dangerous action scenarios. Will Gwen and Hawk ever be able to be together, or will his hardened street-tough lifestyle prove to be too much for her city girl ways? Can they survive the criminal element of Denver and get the sister out of trouble? What will become of them all as they come to learn more of the mystery man?
The Gamble
Setting up the ‘Colorado Mountain’ series, this helped establish a new line of novels for Kristen Ashley when she first published it in 2011 on the 18th of April. Creating a new path it takes a somewhat different direction to what she’s done before. Building a new premise, she works well at establishing a new set of characters and rules for the stories.
Here she introduces Nina Sheridan, a woman unsure of the man she is to marry with his lack of interest in her and life, as she takes some time away in the Colorado Mountains. That’s when she runs into a snowstorm and the ideal man of her dreams; Max. At first though she is reluctant and fights her feelings, but then a murder takes place in the local town of Gnaw Bone. Everyone has motive to kill him, as he was detested, so Max and Nina must find out who and she decides whether or not to take the gamble.
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I originally bought your book The Girl in the Mist by accident. So I read it and loved it so much, then I bought on purpose The Girl in the Woods love that book also not I’m addicted to your books. Best accidental buy I ever made. That’s for these great listens. I lost my ability to read and enjoy almost a book a day.
Love your books.Did you write “Lottie’s Rock Chick book “.Thanks for so many great reading moments.❤️
I just wanted to say I love your books! A friend d of mine introduced me to your books starting with Dream Man series. I have not stopped reading your book since. You have an amazing talent for writing,looking forward to reading more of your books.