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Zachary Ashford
@zacharyashford.bsky.social
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Husband. Horror author. Educator. HWA member. TV/Film Rep: Alec Frankel at IAG. Check out my debut novel Polyphemus here: https://lnkj.in/p/polyphemus. Book me to speak at your school or writing event here: https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/zach
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Once more, for the afternoon crowd. @libbycudmore.bsky.social @onenerdsopinion.bsky.social @richienarvaez.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com @patrickbarb.bsky.social @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @michaelsellars.bsky.social @hollywest.bsky.social @zacharyashford.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Once more, for the nighttime crowd. @stephstephking.bsky.social @toddkeisling.com @libbycudmore.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social @hollywest.bsky.social @waynefenlon.bsky.social @zacharyashford.bsky.social @scotchfullyyours.bsky.social @amina.bsky.social @alanbaxter.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Just finished Pre-approved for Haunting by @patrickbarb.bsky.social and it's an awesome collection. Definitely give it a read if you get the chance!
April 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Hell yes! Get some indeed, but also make sure you get onto Beau's Bishop Rider books. So good!
beaujohnson44.bsky.social Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · Apr 12
Hey, here’s another book I liked. You might like it too. Go on, get some @zacharyashford.bsky.social Fun was had! #BookSky📚
#SaturdayRecs
April 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Coming from Andy Cull, this is high praise! And yeah, this other lot are all rad af!
andrewcull.bsky.social 🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social · Apr 12
Hey everyone! Time for a #SaturdayShoutOut Some Aussie horror writers that should definitely be on your radar...

@zacharyashford.bsky.social
@bpgregory.bsky.social
@yolandasfetsos.bsky.social
@gregchapman.bsky.social

If you're not reading their books, you're missing some awesome horror 👻🖤
April 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Wahey! Thanks for the in-depth review!
April 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It's true! It's all true!
ghoulish.bsky.social Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · Apr 2
hey @zacharyashford.bsky.social said some really cool shit about @ryanb4890.bsky.social's really cool book! did you preorder your really cool signed & personalized copy at ghoulish.rip yet?
graphic that says "SAY UNCLE starts like the best of coming-of-age story: one about family, young love, and identity. Then the rot rears its head. Cultists, murder, unwanted obligations, and your favorite uncle stealing your bedroom – then trying to sacrifice your girl. Bradley has dropped an absolute wrecking ball of a story. Thoroughly recommended. – Zachary Ashford, author of POLYPHEMUS." in radioactive green font. the cover of say uncle by Ryan C Bradley is along the top and bottom of the graphic.
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Hey check it out! How cool is this!
March 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Check it out: a reading from my new novella, TROG. Meet Aisha, our protagonist, right at the moment the bad guys show up!
March 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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In the interests of giving people a teaser about my new novella, one that starts out as a home invasion story like The Strangers and that becomes a creature feature like Abominable, I've recorded a live-at-home reading.

Come meet Aisha, the teen protagonist in my latest!
youtu.be/HumyVqMV1Y0
Zachary Ashford live reading of TROG.
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March 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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SundayRecs? SundayRecs! Go on, get some
@jordanharper.bsky.social @shellycampbell.bsky.social @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social @michaelclarkbooks.bsky.social @steveweddle.bsky.social @stevestred.bsky.social @zacharyashford.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social Fun was had! #BookSky 📚💙
March 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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TROG is out today from @zacharyashford.bsky.social - I read it a while back and it still lingers in my mind…if a creature feature is on the cards for your reading, make sure you dive into this bloody, thrilling, propulsive read!
zacharyashford.bsky.social Zachary Ashford @zacharyashford.bsky.social · Mar 11
TROG is now free to disrupt a home invasion near you! It's a tightly paced book about an escaped cryptid amping up the terror in the knife's-edge atmosphere of a home invasion, and the young girl fighting to survive the night. Think ABOMINABLE X BECKY.

Huge thanks @eddiegenerous.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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TROG is now free to disrupt a home invasion near you! It's a tightly paced book about an escaped cryptid amping up the terror in the knife's-edge atmosphere of a home invasion, and the young girl fighting to survive the night. Think ABOMINABLE X BECKY.

Huge thanks @eddiegenerous.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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@zacharyashford.bsky.social and @eddiegenerous.bsky.social release Trog today - Congratulations!
I really enjoyed this one - Pure monster mayhem!
Trog book release info
March 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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... Dancing Through the Shadows - edited by @e-r-vickers.bsky.social all proceeds to My Sister's Place domestic abuse survivor's charity, Trog by @zacharyashford.bsky.social coming 11 March @eddiegenerous.bsky.social, One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com - out now @psychopomp.bsky.social ...
February 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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My inaugural review for FanFiAddict is live now! Come see what I thought about @zacharyashford.bsky.social's forthcoming brutal home invasion creature freature via @eddiegenerous.bsky.social, TROG.
fanfiaddict.com/review-trog-... #bookreview 🩸📚 💙📚 #horror
Review: Trog by Zachary Ashford | FanFiAddict
Synopsis After Aisha is traumatized by a stalker, her parents decide to move to a property in the outback. They say it's in her best interests. But the ...
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February 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Please forgive my continued promotional push in the lead-up to release day for this one.
Early reviewers are loving this Home Invasion tale with a cryptid twist. Think Becky X Abominable!
Out through Unnerving this March.
Pre-order in all the usual places.
February 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTONE X THE HAUNTED MASK
When Ethan saves a cursed old man from thugs, he earns an ancient mask and is sent for revenge. BUT every retaliatory beating he inflicts is a step towards accepting the old man's curse as his own. Can he stop before it's too late?
#YA #H #2025pit
January 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Hung out with this fella while I was writing at a national park today.
Large, placid lace monitor. A species of monitor lizard native to Australia. This specimen is approximately two metres long from nose to tail Large, placid lace monitor. A species of monitor lizard native to Australia. This specimen is approximately two metres long from nose to tail. In this image, it is flicking its forked tongue out.
January 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Time to shout about POLYPHEMUS again. (Looks like I found an old Encyclo logo...oops...) @encyclopub.bsky.social

Also...just truck me: POLYPHEMUS and enCYCLOPocalypse. Match made in heaven. Or hell. Whatever.
January 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Time to shout about POLYPHEMUS again. (Looks like I found an old Encyclo logo...oops...) @encyclopub.bsky.social

Also...just truck me: POLYPHEMUS and enCYCLOPocalypse. Match made in heaven. Or hell. Whatever.
January 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Not gonna lie, I'm mindful of oversharing and spamming, but this blurb from @aarondries.bsky.social (which is cut from a way longer, way cooler one) made my day when it came through. Of course, I had to bastardize it and make it fit this promotional image.
January 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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ICYMI earlier: Check out the paperback version of my debut short story collection!

Also, a new 5-star review has been posted: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Yay. Thank you @emilymarie82.bsky.social. ☺️
yolandasfetsos.bsky.social Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social · Jan 21
#Booksky! My MELANCHOLY DELUSIONS author copies arrived today & they're BEAUTIFUL. 💚

I mean, look at them. 😍

Thank you so much @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social!!
Stack of four books with one on top to display the beautiful Melancholy Delusions cover. The cover has the title along the top and my name on the bottom. Both are in green. It features a woman in front of a mirror with creepy things in the reflection. Cover made by Luke Spooner/Carrion House.
January 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Cool-as-all-hell vampire novel unleashed (for a second time)!
January 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM