November Update

November arrived the clock’s rolled back and I am juggling multiple deadlines. While I’m busy completing the second book in the Celebutante series, The Naked Predator. I have to allow time for editing, formatting, etc. but I will announce the launch date soon. Stay tuned! More Than Love needs additional work and I’ve set it aside for the moment to complete the companion to Shameless. I am finalizing the print version and hope to have that available soon. […]

First Look at Shameless by Ashleigh Sexsmith (New Adult Romance)

TEASER! Shameless – The Sexual Misadventures of a Trust Fund Socialite January 1st Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot We had had a pre-party party so by the time our car picked us up I was in good spirits… and very expensive spirits too. I was so bummed I was practically phoning it in, Vivienne Westwood black dress and Jimmy Choo. It is quite an under-appreciated skill to be able to navigate an urban environment in […]

Rewriting Someone Else’s Story as a Writing Exercise

I’m currently writing three books (I’ll post about that later), but I’m making some time to do a writing exercise. I was talking to a friend of mine who draws. I asked him if he had ever redrawn a picture or a whole page by another artist. Many times he told me. I know of many amateur and even professional film makers that have redone a film sequence matching the original shot-by-shot. In the visual […]

It’s Long Way To The Top

…or, If you thought writing your book was hard; wait until you try to sell it. While I put off editing my next episodic story collection let me help some of you new self-published authors who have yet to do anything on the publishing side. You are editing your writing and fantasizing of posting it to Amazon–wait, we skipped a few steps… a whole lot of steps. So let’s go back to the beginning. If […]