Help Build Ashes & Embers.
Earn lifetime free access, a permanent book credit, and a seat on our Editorial Board.
Welcome to Ashes & Embers. Female owned and operated by Phoenix Hawthorn, author of the upcoming atmospheric fantasy The Witherlands, and my own personal memoir, The Geometry of Solitude. I am building the Ashes & Embers Founders Circle, because I don’t rely on corporate algorithms or social media ad engines to grow. Instead, I rely on genuine human connections with readers who love good stories and want to see independent literature thrive without corporate gatekeeping.
My journey as a publisher began because I finally felt ready to write my memoir. But as someone who uses AI daily, trying to find a space where my work wasn’t judged by an AI warning label before the cover was even opened led me down a deep rabbit hole of AI research and neurodivergence. Before long, that frustration exploded into unfiltered neurodivergent advocacy and a quest to publish without gatekeepers clutching their pearls over AI assistance.
From that journey, Ashes & Embers was born.
Like all great publishing houses, I need an editorial team to screen future publications to make sure they align with our vision, mission, and ethics. Help me spread the word: a new publishing house is open for business. One that doesn’t censor, is AI friendly, and specifically champions neurodivergent and disabled writers.
Join the drive, help us grow and earn your spot with the Founders Circle to curate the best AI assisted stories, represent real authorship, and prove to the world that human guided AI literature is anything but slop.
🏆 The Founders Circle Reward: Only 35 Seats Available
I am limiting the Founders Circle to strictly 35 dedicated readers.
When you claim one of the 35 Founders Seats by hitting 100 referrals, you lock in a permanent, lifetime insider relationship with myself and Ashes & Embers:
📚 Phoenix Hawthorn Personal Perks:
- Guaranteed Digital ARCs: Receive a free, pre-release digital copy of every finished Phoenix Hawthorn novel 6 weeks before it hits retail platforms.
- Lifetime Store Discount: An exclusive, permanent 20% discount code for all physical print books, special hardcovers, and merchandise in our shop.
🏛️ Imprint-Wide & Editorial Perks:
Ground-Floor Builder Status: The pride of knowing you helped build an independent, gatekeeper-free publishing house from the ground up—shaping a permanent, safe harbor for neurodivergent creators and stories that mainstream publishing overlooks.
Reader Editorial Board Seat: Direct voting power on your assigned Genre Panel. You will receive early access to unreleased third-party author submissions to screen manuscripts, enforce community standards, and vote on which books the imprint accepts.
Universal Book Acknowledgments: Your name immortalized in the official printed and digital acknowledgment sections of all Phoenix Hawthorn fantasy novels and all third-party books published under the Ashes & Embers imprint.
(Note: Retail book sales and discounts for third-party authors belong strictly to those creators to protect their independent income. All neurodivergent advocacy, trauma recovery essays, and homesteading pieces will ALWAYS remain 100% free to the public).
🏆 The 35 Founders Circle Seats & Specialized Panels
To build a publishing house that genuinely represents under-served communities without exploitation, our 35 Founders Seats are divided into 7 dedicated Panels of 5 readers each (guaranteeing a built-in tie-breaker vote on every submission):
Seats are claimed first-come, first-served as readers reach 100 referrals.
- Panel 1: Fantasy (5 Seats)
- Panel 2: Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk & LitRPG (5 Seats)
- Panel 3: Horror, Gothic & Dark Suspense (5 Seats)
- Panel 4: Anthropomorphic & Furry Fantasy (5 Seats — SFW / Strict No-Erotica Rule)
- Panel 5: Little Space, age-reg & DDLG Fiction (5 Seats — SFW / Comfort, Fairytales & Allegory / Strict No-Erotica Rule)
- Panel 6: Romance & Romantasy (5 Seats)
- Panel 7: Kink & Alternative Dynamics (5 Seats — Adult / Spicy consenting dynamics)
Note: Panels 4 and 5 enforce a strict non-erotic standard, focusing entirely on high-quality narrative craft, emotional comfort, and authentic representation.
🎯 How to Earn Your Founders Circle Seat (100 Referrals)
To earn one of the 35 Founders seats, refer 100 readers to Ashes & Embers using your unique personal referral link.
How to get started in 3 simple steps:
- Get your custom referral link.
- Share it: Send your unique link to reading friends, fantasy groups, memoir lovers, or on social media. Send it in a text, an email, or wherever your voice carries. Anyone who subscribes through your link becomes part of your referral count.
- Track your referrals on the leaderboard.
As the publication grows, it unlocks expanding tiers for Phoenix Hawthorn’s Beyond the Ink author fan club, a private creator space on Patreon.
- 3,500 Publication Subs ➔ Curatorial Council Seats Claimed
- 4,000 Publication Subs ➔ Beyond the Ink Tier 1: The Early Bird ($5/mo)
- 4,500 Publication Subs ➔ Beyond the Ink Tier 2: The Insider ($10/mo)
- 5,000 Publication Subs ➔ Beyond the Ink Tier 3: The Writer’s Circle ($20/mo)
- 10,000 Publication Subs ➔ Beyond the Ink Tier 4: The After Dark Vault ($30/mo)
Thank you for helping this space reach the people who need it. Every ember shared has the power to light someone else’s path.
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