Top Shelf Favorite Author – Kristen Ashley

Today’s Top Shelf Favorite Author is brought to you courtesy of CnB Reviewer Karen.  She’s featuring Kristen Ashley.  See why she’s Karen’s Top Shelf Favorite Author below.

How did you discover Kristen Ashley?

Kristen Ashley’s name kept popping up on the book blogs I follow and once I read MYSTERY MAN, I was hooked and read all her other books.

What is it about this author and their books that have your coming back for more?

When I read one of Kristen Ashley’s books I know it will be a long, enthralling story filled with interesting and down to earth characters. The heroes are alpha males and when they fall in love, they are devoted, loving, caring and protective. The heroines are independent, feisty women and keep these guys on their toes. KA’s stories are long; she doesn’t write short books and there are never any cliffhangers. Many of her books are written in a series and all the characters are interconnected, but each book is a stand-alone. She writes the best and longest epilogues of any author I have read and she ties up all the loose ends. I know I will be sad to have the story end, but it will have a HEA and I will be satisfied.

What’s your favorite book of Kristen Ashley’s?  Why?

It’s hard to pick just one, so I narrowed it down to three, but I love every single book KA has written and have read most of them a few times. My favorite is HEAVEN AND HELL. Sampson and Kia connect from the moment they meet and their story takes the reader on an enchanting emotional journey. Sampson is the ultimate alpha male hero. DREAM MAN is the first book I read and still remains at the top of my list and I also love THE GAMBLE, the first book in the Colorado series.

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I was born a middle class white child in Gary, Indiana, USA. One of the last of a dying breed. I nearly killed my mother and myself making it into the world, seeing as I had the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck (already attempting to accessorize and I hadn’t taken my first breath!). Mom says they took me away, put her back in her room, she looked out the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days before). She remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the dramatic beginning.
Nothing’s changed.

All I’ve ever wanted to do was write (well, and be the Queen of the World, but you gotta start small) and I’ve published a gazillion books and counting (and a gazillion is a lot! shoo!).

Even though I jump genres, there is always a theme to my books…humor (hopefully), engaging characters (again, hopefully) and romance (definitely).

My loves are movies, music, food and fashion and I partake of all of them as often as I can (the middle two more than the others, the former, which takes time I don’t often have and the latter, which takes money I rarely have).

I grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and have lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus I’m blessed to have friends and family around the globe. My family was (is) loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write and growing up it was large and multi-generational. We all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm town in the heartland. I grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched). Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up.
And as I keep growing up, it keeps getting better.
So here I am, thank goodness.

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Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA. She nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorise and she hadn’t taken her first breath!).

Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana but has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her posse is loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write.

Kristen was raised in a house with a large and multi-generational family. They lived on a very small farm in a small town in the heartland and existed amongst the strains of Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).

Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up.

And as she keeps growing up, it keeps getting better. (less)

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