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Amidst chaos and life transitions, Ashley found solace in writing

I was a mess.

I’d just quit my job as an ER nurse, moved across the country for my husband’s medical residency, and had my third child. I was alone in a new state with a mostly absent husband and three small children.

Quitting the night shift was supposed to make this transition easier. It didn’t. It turns out not talking to adults and only using your brain to calculate when you need to breastfeed next only makes things harder.

I needed a challenge. A reason to get up in the morning and a way to keep my brain occupied while I cleaned crayon off the walls. My whole life I’d loved to read mystery books and decided it was time to write one of my own. So, I sat down and googled, “how do you write a book?”