Ashley Mathias Root

🍎🖋🖤🌈 Author/Teacher | Sour/Sweet | She/Her THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA (2025) 🩵 *Updates Only* Find me on IG, Threads, + TikTok ✨

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR. 🥹🩵

It didn’t hit me until last night and for the first time, I let myself cry tears of joy. I freaking DID it. I published a BOOK! Little me would be so proud. ✨

THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA is FURYBORN x CURIOUS TIDES w/ a dash of SAILOR MOON. ⚔️🔮🌈

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

THE VALOR. 🎨✨🌈🖤

Behold these gorgeous portraits of my fave girls (and my fave guy!) Like no notes. They’re exactly as I see them. In LOVE. 🖤

🎨 @jiyaneru

THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA is a Young Adult Fantasy, pitched as FURYBORN x CURIOUS TIDES w/ a dash of SAILOR MOON.

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GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! 📣🩵✨

For this month of giving, I’m doing a book giveaway over on the Goodreads site! Enter to win a signed paperback copy of TDDoA w/ a bookmark + sticker included! 🫶🏻

TDDoA is a YA Fantasy, pitched as FURYBORN meets CURIOUS TIDES w/ a dash of SAILOR MOON.

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

I like my books like I like all things—DARK + GLITTERY. ✨🖤

About my book! ⤵️

THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA is a Young Adult Fantasy, pitched as FURYBORN meets CURIOUS TIDES with a dash of SAILOR MOON. 🔮⚔️🩵 @PublishConquest

#WritingCommunity

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

Some reader love my recent debut has received! It’s a fun, vibrant epic of glittering girl-power, forging friendships, and forbidden first love, but it’s also a haunting mystery steeped in loss and grief and the scars of generational trauma. I hope it finds its’ readers. ✨🌈🖤

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

Hold your breath. You’re going to need it. ⚔️💦

About the book! ⤵️

THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA (09.02.25) is a Young Adult Fantasy, pitched as FURYBORN meets CURIOUS TIDES with a dash of SAILOR MOON. 🔮⚔️🌈🖤

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MAGIC SCHOOL CREST REVEAL 🌈✨

Be nice about it because I made it annnd I love it. 😝

Which club would you belong to?

❤️ Club Ignis : fire
🧡 Club Ventus : air
💛 Club Fulmis : lightning
💚 Club Tellus : earth
💙 Club Maris : water
💜 Club Aevus : timespace

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

She crossed worlds to return home. Now she’ll have to save it from sinking—or drown trying. 👀

THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA (2025) is a YA Fantasy debut that combines elements of Furyborn x Curious Tides + a dash of Sailor Moon. ⚔️🔮🌈🩵

🎨 @littlegirlonice

@PublishConquest

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

Our sweet Luna turned 15 years old yesterday!! So grateful for another year with this golden girl. ✨💜🌙

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

Welcome to the club. ✨🌈🖤

Loved magical girl groups so much growing up, I decided to create my own!
🧡 Astraea
💙 Coralin
❤️ Vectoria
💚 Florance
💛 Temeya

THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA is a YA Fantasy: FURYBORN x CURIOUS TIDES w/ a dash of SAILOR MOON. 🩷

🎨: MaryEllen Kelly

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

Saw this pie chart trend floating around a few weeks ago, but I was so deep in revisions that I couldn’t bring myself to partake—and then I finished them and got fomo. 🙃

SO, here is a taste of what you’ll find in my debut, THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA, publishing 09.02.25! 🩵

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

Oh burnnn. 🔥

Like fantasy stories with warring politics? Say less. ⚔️

THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA is a Young Adult Fantasy, pitched as FURYBORN meets CURIOUS TIDES with a dash of SAILOR MOON. ⚔️🔮🌈🩵

@PublishConquest

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

@PatricksQuill @PublishConquest Thank you! 🩵

[Ashley Mathias Root @amrootwrites]

It’s been 37 years since I debuted on Earth (03.22.88), and this year my book babe will finally debut too (09.02.25)! To celebrate, here’s our first pic together! We’re in our blue era. 🩵🪼📘🌀❄️💦💙

I can’t wait to share this book of my heart with y’all. 🎉🖤 @PublishConquest

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@Dunn4Authors @PublishConquest Thank you! 🩵

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@margaritapoet @PublishConquest Thank you! 🩵

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@talishammas @PublishConquest Ahh thank you!! 🥰🖤🖤

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@AmeliaGThorn @PublishConquest Best birthday comment ever. 🥳🖤

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@sosawnin @PublishConquest Thank you!! 🩵

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Please admire this pretend bookshelf where I placed my debut book among other amazing YA Fantasy books that I think it would sit with. ✨

If you like any of these books, then you’ll love my upcoming debut, THE DROWNING DAZE OF ASTRAEA, releasing 09.02.25! Add it to Goodreads! 🩵