David Ashby

Writer, GRIBBLEBOB'S BOOK OF UNPLEASANT GOBLINS, debut MG book, now available, thanks to @sarahodedina and @pushkinpress

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

Very excited to be working with the great @sarahodedina and @pushkinpress on Gribblebob!
Pushkin Children’s signs two after opening submissions https://t.co/6h4IOomtWj

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Just thought I would share this Simple Stockholm Story from someone I know quite well!

https://t.co/4vqAUbdyid

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Got thinking about growing up around nuns and tyres https://t.co/pmPYG43egg

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@_Ally_Bally_Bee Bally

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Stockholm City Hall looked magical last night.

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Sitting on a Swedish jetty reading about lost places in Britain and the excellent writing by @drmatthewgreen is making me feel a little homesick for somewhere that doesn't exist any more. Great book by @faberbooks

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

@JamesKestrel @HardCaseCrime You're welcome. It really is a great book that works on so many levels and covers so much emotional ground.

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

I've just finished #FiveDecembers by @JamesKestrel from @HardCaseCrime and it's phenomenal. There are some books, that after you have stayed up late to finish them (sadly, for me, 9.30pm is late!) you know they have written themselves into you and will always be there. Amazing!

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

I always knew I was... something, I just didn't know it was ambilevous.

https://t.co/i7QQOrtKnm

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This is about the brother I never knew I had.

https://t.co/PsZMz1exaN

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Sorting through some stuff and I found this story about the evening 20 years ago when I first moved to Sweden and the vicar came to tea. https://t.co/B5EbKko1hV

[North Stand Chat @NorthStandChat]

“With Accor, you are guaranteed to have a pleasant and comfortable stay” promises the @All / @Accor website.

Let’s talk about that...

On the way to the Marseille Europa League game, myself and two friends had reserved *AND PAID IN FULL* for hotel rooms, independently, directly on the @All website. We’d also checked in online on the @All website, notifying them of our expected time of arrival.

When we arrived at the hotel, despite our bookings and advanced payments, we were told there were no rooms available. And that was it.

It was late in the evening and no assistance was offered to help us find another hotel.

In the end we paid a substantial amount on a taxi, trawling around various hotels to find a vacant room. We found one around 2am. Literally one. Instead of us having a room each for the night, we had one to share. My two friends got cosy in a double bed whilst I slept in a small child-sized bunk above.

We put it down to experience though, as surely @All would refund us for the rooms we booked, and were unable to use, at the very least. Hopefully, they’d also help us with the money we had to spend to find somewhere else to sleep for the night.

No they won’t. Accor are refusing to refund us for rooms booked on their very own website that we were unable to use as they’d given them to other people.

Let’s repeat that: We booked and paid for hotel rooms with Accor. They gave those rooms to other people. They won’t refund us.

Simply, the most appalling customer service it has been my misfortune to experience.

You have a choice as to which hotels you use. I suggest you think long and hard about using @All.

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

Nice to read the first pages of 3rd placed EBONIE WOODHEAD IS NOT A WITCH at the #stockholmwritersfestival. It was great to hear winner @BethLucy read from SCOUSE GRAFFITI too and to be transported a little to Liverpool. Thanks to @StockholmWriter @catpett for a fun day.

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@nine_pound @sarahodedina @PushkinPress Sorry. Thought you were Elon.

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

Very excited to be working with the great @sarahodedina and @pushkinpress on Gribblebob!
Pushkin Children’s signs two after opening submissions https://t.co/6h4IOomtWj

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@mepowell @StockholmWriter Congratulations!

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@BethLucy @StockholmWriter Congratulations!

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

Congratulations to @BethLucy and the other winners of @StockholmWriter First Five Pages Prize. I'm very honoured to take third place!
I'm so pleased that you liked my writing, and thank you for saying such nice things about "Ebonie Woodhead".
See you in August!

#SWF23 #MGLit

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[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

Nice news for a Monday - now I am on the shortlist for the Stockholm Writer's Festival First Five Pages Prize with my middle-grade fiction story Ebonie Woodhead is NOT a Witch. And she really isn't.

Thanks @StockholmWriter
#SWF23
#MGLit

[David Ashby @David_J_Ashby]

Really happy to make the longlist for the Stockholm Writers Festival First Five Pages Prize with "Ebonie Woodhead is NOT a Witch"

Good luck to the other participants - some of the titles sounded really intriguing. Here's the full list:
https://t.co/laZ7blsgHY

#SWF23

#MGLit

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@cox_tom I love imaginary / lost albums. This 1971 Elvis Presley folk LP is one of my favourites: https://t.co/RgpJy0kbZp