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Ashley Mansour

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Ashley Mansour is a bestselling author, award-winning film producer, and storyteller known for creating immersive, emotionally charged narratives that blur the line between beauty and darkness.
Her internationally bestselling debut novel, Blood, Ink & Fire, imagined a world where reading was forbidden — a haunting love letter to the power of stories. After its success and film option, Ashley transitioned into the entertainment world, producing and writing book-to-screen adaptations, including Back Roads, the adaptation of the Oprah’s Book Club bestseller by Tawni O’Dell.
In 2025, Ashley returned to fiction, this time exploring the darker sides of domestic life. Her upcoming domestic suspense novels, Dark Ugly Places and The Girl That Jack Kil
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Ashley Mansour For me, writer's block is a clue that I need more clarity about what I'm writing. Usually I will make sure I'm in my optimal writing space (dining tab…moreFor me, writer's block is a clue that I need more clarity about what I'm writing. Usually I will make sure I'm in my optimal writing space (dining table looking out the window at the nature path and trees, cup of tea in hand) and that I have done enough freewriting to get the creative juices flowing! Once I've done those things (and planned my book with the TAP Method!!) I'm usually good to go. If you're stuck with writer's block, try freewriting for 5-10 minutes and watch what happens. ;) (less)
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What Writer’s Block Really Means … And What To Do About It

The way to treat writer’s block is to understand it, to decode it so you know what your particular type of writer’s block is trying to tell you.
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This past week I was so sick that I couldn’t leave the living room sofa for an entire day. After hours of lying in one position, I got fed up with my own inertia and pulled open my laptop to try and write.

Ten minutes went by and my cur

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“You cannot change someone's mind by lighting fires, burning their history, and persecuting their people. That will only push them further into extremism.”
Ashley Mansour, Blood, Ink & Fire

“We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don’t talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.”
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“So?" Mac says.
I shrug.
"Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?"
"It was nice, I guess."
"You guess?" Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. "Tough crowd."
"Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.”
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