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World Building Or Worldview

Hi, my name is Betsy, and I suck at world building. I can no more create a mysterious land, populate it with rare and wondrous beings, draw on human mythology, than I can fly. I enjoy reading fantasy. I really do, but to try and write it. Save your keystrokes, Ashton....

Loving Our Bad Boys

Why is it that we fall in love with our bad boys? I don't mean in real life, although that was true once for me when I fell in love with a budding rock star, until he became a star and lost his way in the drug scene. I mean, why do we like our bad boys in our books? I...

Getting Inside Your Character’s Heads

Any of you who have read my work know I love writing in the first person singular. Why? Because I can get deeply inside a character and gaze out through her eyes. I can say "her," because so far all of my first-person works have had female main characters. I really...

An Interview With An Author, Part II

Welcome back. I'm your Intrepid Reporter interviewing Betsy Ashton, author of the incredibly chilling EYES WITHOUT A FACE. IR: I'm here with Betsy Ashton. Welcome back. Me: Thanks. And thanks for the coffee. IR: We've already talked about the cover and why you wrote...