Ashley M. Hill

It's hard to sit down and coin something about myself. Not that there's not a lot to say about myself -- I mean, I do love to talk about me -- it's just... you know. Where do you start? Where do you stop? What do people care about? So we'll keep it simple. I'm fairly young, engaged, and a mother. I have a hard time seeing myself as a mother. Mother is my mom. I'm just Ashley. However, Ashley has a beautiful son names Miles, after the ever-so-awesome literary character Miles Vorkosigan. I was introduced to said character and series by my fiance Andy, who was introduced to it by his mother.

I was born in Wisconsin, but my mother (see?) joined the military when I was about one, so I've grown up all over the place. Sometimes interesting places: England, Japan. Sometimes not-so-interesting places: Nebraska, Kansas.

For a long time I described myself as being from Wisconsin. Anymore I consider myself as being from Kansas, which is funny considering how much I hated finding out we were moving to Kansas. But in Kansas I met my fiance, I had my son, I'm getting married, and I'm doing more growing up than I realized I would beyond the age of eighteen.

I've been writing since I was about ten or so. I'm not proud of all of it. At the age of ten or eleven I wrote a letter to a publisher (and I regret not saving this letter) asking what steps I would have to take in order to write a novel in the Star Wars universe. I liked Star Wars, and though I didn't yet realized it, I love(d) fanfiction. Then I went to my grandmother's in Wisconsin for the summer.

One day my mother calls and tell me that I got a letter back, and they didn't know what steps I should take -- which baffled me, since said publisher was on the books I was reading at the time -- but that they wished me luck. They also returned my letter, which someone had gone through with a red pen to correct all the errors.

This did not scar me the way it probably should have.

I proceeded to write fanfiction for the better part of ten years, most as a hobby until I was suddenly seventeen, living in a new state with no friends, and bored for the summer. Then it became a way of live, which may not be necessarily healthy, but it made me a lot of friends. Online. Still counts.

I started working on my novel when I was eighteen, but didn't really actually make any progress until I was nineteen-going-on-twenty. By this time I had a boyfriend, had no time for the internet, and was going to college -- which I really just used as zoning-out time in order to write. As you can imagine, I later dropped out of college. I stopped writing fanfiction in order to work on my novel. (Which sounds so snooty, you know?)

I've written a couple short stories, the latest of which was rejected sometime in my last trimester (think February 2009), and after having the baby I'm only just now returning to a normal life and series of hobbies.

I took a photography class in high school and loved photography. I still do it sometimes, but given that film is on the pricey side and my digital camera is moderately awesome, I don't really do it very often for the art of it anymore. I'd like to more often, but for the time being it's a back-burner hobby.

I fell in love with make websites sometime around the time I was lonely and alone at seventeen. I'm not great at it, but I enjoy it and I can do it on a regular basis without much cost. I've done a couple websites for a friends, and I've had half-a-dozen personal and fandom websites, but nothing to really call home about.

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