Ashley - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hey y'all! Thanks for stopping by. I'm from Louisiana, but now live in Tennessee. I've been writing Fiction stories for twenty years. Of course, that means Nothing wrapped in velvet if others who know and feel and remember and dream can't see what I'm saying on the page. My stories are cinematic in tone. I started out writing short stories, then tried a novella (a lil' 200 pager) and in college, I attempted my first novel. Now I have three milk crates full of four unpublished manuscripts that will see the light of day whenever the muck is slung off the pages and I believe they're ready for everybody's happy eye. Critical eye. Angry eye. Pleasured eye. The Reader's Eye.A few years ago I wrote a book called "The Parent Killer." amazon.com. The title alone is a testament to 'don't judge a book by its cover."My second novel, "Dear Arial," has recently been unleashed on the reading public. It's six hundred and sixty pages of psychological horror and suspense in a small Louisiana town. Available at amazon.com, bn.com, and at authorhouse.com's bookstore for your reading entertainment.Nowadays, I'm working on my third fiction book, "Dark Bayou." If you'd like, check out the blog "Info on Writing" for more information on my books "The Parent Killer" and "Dear Arial,".What else, what else....um, my favorite color's emerald green, fav number's 4....I'm old school. I don't bullshit people...I only lie on the page.This page is set up for networking with other writers and readers and folks in the business of publishing books....if you don't have a pic, please don't ask to be added. Unless you're super agent Molly Freidrich. Or I know you from way back. Thank you.

My Interests

Creating images of life on paper. Reading lots of fiction, listening to lots of music, and watching movies that don't suck like most do nowadays...beer, smart women. The lake. Working outside.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in creative writing and making real the imagined story in any way, shape, or form. I've added very talented writers to my friends list, along with those in the movie and music industry, and want to say it's so nice to meet all of you. I'll switch around my Top Pics periodically for the benefit of new friends. I am looking forward to reading several interesting stories! Good luck with your writing dreams, folks. -AB

Music:

AC/DC, Blind Melon, Beastie Boys, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, B.B.King, Stone Temple Pilots, The Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Portishead, George Jones, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, BACK THEN, The Floyd, Hank, Jr. Nineties Alt. Rock, 70's Rock, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Snoop Dogg, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, KORN, Hendrix, The Doors, The Highwaymen, Sublime, Audioslave, Ice Cube, Pearl Jam, Collective Soul, Patty Loveless, Eminem, Sheryl Crowe, The Raconteurs, Geto Boys, Willie Nelson, The Offspring, Temple Of The Fuckin' Dog, GNR Appetite, Radiohead, Toni Braxton, Ty Hager, Soundgarden, Kenny Wayne Sheppard Band, John Fogerty, CASH, and anything else worth listening to.

Movies:

Any movie with a solid storyline and not so much animated digital effects.

Television:

Took a sledgehammer to it. Then burned it.

Books:

James Lee Burke, Stephen King, Jackie Collins, E.A. Poe, Bentley Little, Thomas Harris, S.E. Hinton, John D. Macdonald, Kelly Braffet, Steinbeck, Bryan Smith, Kinky Friedman, Brad Listi's A.D.D. William Faulkner, Owen King, Jack Kincaid, Michael Laimo, Horror Author. Richard Briley, author, "Nightriders," Inside Story of the West/Kimbrell Clan.

Heroes:

My parents. Tom Petty. Stephen King. People who graduated college. My butcher.

My Blog

cornbread chicken and dressing and other ramblings

yep. I'm cooking that up come Thursday. first time out. tryin' to make it right. any ideas on this would help......i've got the basic recipe, but if you know what NOT to do, I'm all ears, or eyes. I w...
Posted by Ashley on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:01:00 PST

Questions for writers.

Hello everybody. Anyone may respond to this, but I just had a few ques. for those folks out there who actually write. 1. What color's the blood on your forehead? 2. Where do you begin? ...
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:32:00 PST

gravity+momentum+3 beers=plant face on ground

There's some things better than drinking Jack Daniel's in a duck blind overlooking a lake at 8 am feeling the sun on my face, but not many I can recall offhand, especially without offen...
Posted by Ashley on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:45:00 PST

winter doesn't have a Louisiana on its map

Four seasons is a beauty to see. Since moving to Tennessee 9 years ago, I've experienced them all. For the most part, the seasons linked together smoothly. It was something new. In Lo...
Posted by Ashley on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:35:00 PST

something about bitchin' or somethin'

Griping. Gossiping. Bitching. Wayfaring emotions. Hollywood starlets going all out. It all adds up. It all takes away. Hey, we're human. We talk. We blog. We keep secrets, expunge secre...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:57:00 PST

Relax, it's just the voices in my head

A friend of mine asked me how I could romanticize violence and write all the crazy stuff I put in my stories. "With feeling," I told him. It's a literate stew. But all my stories have that viole...
Posted by Ashley on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:18:00 PST

Ramblin things I thought of on a hazy night the other night, about a week or two ago. I think.

Damn, this is a hazy night. It's all foggy, can't see too good. There's dead bugs smeared all over the windshield--gotta get the spray and clean it clear. What the? Is my left headlight...
Posted by Ashley on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:46:00 PST

Hurling in bushes sucks the life out of a good party

Wasn't me. Didn't do it. Not this time. I went out to a party last night in the middle of a field surrounded by the beautiful hills here in Tennessee. It stopped raining early on and the bonfire ...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:54:00 PST

WTF is McDonald's Problem?

Today I heard a commerical for McDonald's. The All-American family restaurant was spouting off another ad about "I'm lovin' it," beginning with a guy promising his w...
Posted by Ashley on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:25:00 PST

The Crying Rain part 10

"Say that again?" she said into the phone. "I said your crazy cousin Herman hauled off and hit me in the stomach!" ...
Posted by Ashley on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST