Blood, Ink & Fire: Part I

From #1 Amazon Bestselling Author, Ashley Mansour comes a dystopian thriller, a terrifying vision of the future that readers say is reminiscent of Ray Bradbury s Fahrenheit 451...

"YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK! It s like reading Fahrenheit 451 all over again and that is a good thing! Promise!"

Like nothing I ve read before! Absolutely LOVED this book!

A promising debut. Beautifully written...

Absolutely riveting! I couldn t put it down once I started reading.

Blood, Ink & Fire is an apocalyptic vision of a future world without books...

In the future, books are a distant memory. The written word has been replaced by an ever-present stream of images known as Verity. In the controlling dominion of Fell, reading is obsolete and forbidden, and readers themselves do not cannot exist.

But where others see images in the stream, Noelle Hartley sees words. She s obsessed with what they mean, where they came from, and why they found her.

Noelle s been keeping her dangerous fixation with words a secret, but on the night before her seventeenth birthday, a rare interruption in the stream leads her to a mysterious book linked to an underworld of rebel book lovers known as the Nine of the Rising.

With the help of the Risers and the beguiling boy Ledger, Noelle discovers that the words she sees are precious clues to the lost books of the earlier time and that she might be the world s last hope of bringing them back.

Blood, Ink & Fire is a gripping, evocative tale that asks, who would we be without books?

So many twists you just don t see coming...

  A YA novel with a heart and a brain.

A compelling page turner with brilliant visuals, a gripping story, and great characters.

Ashley Mansour is an international bestselling author, award-winning producer, and writer and the founder of LA Writing Coach originally from Los Angeles, California. Ashley has over eight years of entertainment and digital media experience and eight years of combined experience as a Producer/Creative Director. Her first feature film, Back Roads starring Juliette Lewis and Alex Pettyfer, premiered as an Official Selection in the Spotlight Narrative section at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and the Heartland Film Festival and won Best Feature First Prize for the Official Selection at the 2018 Rhode Island International Film Festival and for Best Drama at 2019 Stockholm Independent Film Festival. She has experience writing and producing content for a multitude of screen sizes and audiences and a seasoned writer and storyteller who loves crafting thrilling narratives and captivating audiences through the written word.

In mid-2014, Ashley began a yearlong experiment. She overcame her fear of social media, set up an Instagram profile--@ashleymwrites--and began sharing her own personal writing journey (pitfalls and all) with readers and writers online. She discovered a community of amazing people who cared deeply about reading and books--and about the curious story she was writing that featured a world without both of them. One year later, Ashley's dystopian sci-fi novel for young adults, Blood, Ink & Fire, was complete.

Blood, Ink & Fire is a compelling story for anyone who is passionate about literacy and believes in the power of books. A bibliophile at heart, Ashley loves crafting thrilling narratives for young audiences and imagining future worlds where anything is possible. She currently spends her days in Southern California, where she is enjoying being back on home soil and working on her next novel and film.