She had to put in a lot of energy and time and do numerous rounds of edits, revisions and drafts even as she juggled this with her personal life.ĭuring this time, she was also working a day job and would come home exhausted but still have to meet her writing deadlines. The road to becoming a published author for Ashley Shuttleworth was just as hard as that of many of her peers. Along the way, there would be several books that inspired her to become an author but one of her favorite works for which she wrote fanfiction was Cardcaptors by Clamp.Īshley Shuttleworth was inspired to write “A Dark and Hollow Star,” her debut novel, from her many experiences reading and writing novels and fandom. She has asserted that her love for faeries sprung out of her love for these novels. But the first novel she ever really loved had to be the Artemis Fowl series which she devoured within hours of her father getting them for her. She would eventually move to places such as A03 and FF.Net where she would hone her craft.Īshley remembers her father sitting her and her siblings down as a little girl and reading them the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit. Since she loved fandom, she soon wanted to become an author herself and as a child she turned most of her notebooks into playgrounds, where she wrote about her game worlds. During her childhood, she was into several fandoms and it was at this time that she was introduced to The Legend of Zelda Games. Shuttleworth first discovered she was cut out for writing when she started reading and writing fanfiction.
She is also into sword collecting, cosplay and when she is out of things to do can be found at the wine store and loves to think of herself as a Wine Merchant. Her best games are Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and Zelda which she plays almost every week.
When she is not writing her novels, she loves to travel even though her favorite things are home based activities such as gaming and reading. Shuttleworth published “A Dark and Hollow Star” the debut novel of the series in 2021 and has not looked back since. In Ontario, she went to Trent University from where she would later on graduate with an English Literature degree majoring in Greek Roman mythology, the Romantic Period and Milton. She was born in British Columbia but after several moves, she ended up in Ontario. Ashley Shuttleworth is a young adult, fantasy and LGBTQ author best known for “The Hollow Star Saga” series of novels.
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