The Essentials With Author Ashley Poston: Disney, Local Bookstores and ‘A Novel Love Story’

Growing up in a small town in South Carolina, Ashley Poston found community in writing. “I got picked on as a kid because I had a pretty bad speech impediment where I stuttered a lot, and so I turned to writing,” Poston tells Observer of her earliest writing days in grade school. “I found most of my people online in the fanfic community, and they helped me sort of figure out who I was.” That creative space also helped Poston fine-tune her writing skills across multiple genres, earning her local...