Meet Eden!

Hi everyone! I have started a new story. Maybe the reason that I haven't written on my blog about writing anymore!

This story is about Eden McCallahan. At the beginning, she is a work-a-holic. She spends all her time at work. But in the first chapter, she decides to take the summer off work and go home to spend time with her family. The family that she's been neglecting since she finished college. (Only going home for her brother's, and then her sister's, weddings.)

She starts spending time with her sister, brother-in-law and their baby son, Connor. When a sudden tragedy happens and her sister is killed, and Eden has to have to start raising her nephew, she knows that she can't go back to the big city and back to her old job. She starts working for a small business in her home town.

Then the unexpected happens....

...she finds out that her ex-boyfriend, Trevor, has also moved back into town. (No cover model for him as of yet...but when I get one, you'll be the first to know!) When they FINALLY see each other, they realize that their feelings for each other haven't actually gone away.

But neither are ready for a relationship...but they need friendship.

Eden finds out what the most important things in life are. They aren't work and trying to find the perfect man to live her life with. They are family and friends that truly care about you.

But Eden does want love....

...Will she choose her brother-in-law (her sister's husband who needs help with his son), or will she choose the guy she used to date before they both went off to college and went separate ways?

I am about 45,000 words into my story and I've only started it less than 10 days ago.

Check back for more about this story in the next few weeks! :)

~Ashley

ps...thanks to my beautiful friend Ashley for letting me use her for the cover model for Eden! 

For You Hunger Games Fans

Thanks to my friend, Kylie, for sharing this with me.

Gale:  You're on the phone with your baker he's upset 
Katniss:  oh no 
Gale:  Goin' off about some cake that he burnt 
Gale:  'cause he doesn't know how to hunt like I do 
Katniss:  Gale stop 
Gale:  I'm in the woods it's a typical Sunday afternoon 
Gale:  I'm hunting the kind of squirrels he doesn't like 
Gale:  He'll never be able to hunt like I do 
Gale:  CUZ HE BAKES BREAD 
Gale:  I MAKE SNARES 
Gale:  HE EATS CUPCAKES 
Gale:  AND I HUNT BEARS 
Katniss:  Gale just stop 

Ideas For Book 2

So I've been working on ideas for book two to A World Without Sound. I had, at first, thought that the book was just going to be a stand-alone, but I always have way too many ideas for my stories that they could never fit in one book.

So I always end up with series'. I can't help it.

I wasn't sure how I was going to think up a title for book 2, because I wasn't sure that I could come up with something that was going to sound as awesome as A World Without Sound. I love the title for my book, and was really proud of myself for coming up with it. But trying to come up with another creative title for book 2, felt really hard.

Not to mention the fact that I thought maybe I'd used up all my creativity on A World Without Sound.

But thanks to my amazing friends on Facebook, I've gotten some amazing ideas for the title for book 2...and I'm going to share them now. Leave a comment below letting me know which is your favorite.

1. The Sound of Silence
2. A World Without Words
3. The Music of Silence

Proof Copy

About a week ago, I finished my book, A World Without Sound. I decided that I was going to order a proof copy of it, because I've always wanted to hold the book "in my hand", so to speak.

So the other day, I ordered 2 copies of my unedited book, A World Without Sound. The cover looks great, and it even looks great inside...but the editing definitely needs done. Since I ordered 2 copies, I'm using one as my Editing book - I write all the mistakes in pencil and I plan to fix those mistakes in draft 2.

Well, I got my proof copies in the mail today! I'm so excited. So below are a couple of pictures from when I received them this morning. :D