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ABOUT

Ashley Michel is the emerging author of “Fugue” (2014) and the upcoming “Girl in Gray.” (2017) She majored in anthropology at Louisiana State University, and then later returned for a Masters of Library and Information Science, also from LSU. She has had a series of early jobs ranging in everything from insurance to massage therapy, but finally found her way back into the library, where she worked as a student in college. After working in academic libraries for twelve years, she then turned to the public library system and is currently a Reference Librarian in the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


During this time, she re-discovered her love of writing stories, having ventured into fanfiction during her college years, though she had been writing stories for her sisters since childhood. After some encouraging feedback from fellow fans, she decided to try it “for real,” and signed up as a freelance ghostwriter online. After working several years writing stories for other people, she decided it was time to give it a try for herself. After a few tries at taking part in National Novel Writing Month, where you are challenged to write 50,000 words of a story during the month of November each year, which produced some really bad initial stories, the third time, in 2013, produced her first book, “Fugue,” which she thought might be good enough to publish.

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After diving into the deep end of self-publishing through LuLu.com, this novel is now out as of October 2014. Also avialable is her second book, "Girl in Grey," which was completed for NaNoWriMo 2015. For NaNoWrimo 2016, she finished writing the first book in a seven book series, "Robicheaux Bayou 1: The Loup Garou of Landry Swamp," and NaNoWriMo 2017 saw the near completion of "Robicheaux Bayou Book 2: The Lights of Langlois Landing." Already, she is setting her sights on her next novel for NaNoWriMo, “Robicheaux Bayou 3: The Voodoo Queen of Vigneau Place,” which will be published in 2019.

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Presently, Ashley lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her husband Russell, thier son Garrett, and two cats. She is a Reference Librarian at the Main Library on Goodwood and teaches classes in the use of computers, Microsoft applications, and self-publishing.

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