Charles Ashton writes children’s stories, adult books, poetry and some songs. Since the publication of Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire in 1990 (now Part 1 of the one-volume Dragon Fire trilogy), Charlie has produced various other published titles, all on (or in most cases now off) the “children’s market”: Billy’s Drift, Time Ghost, Ruth and the Blue Horse, The Giant’s Boot, The Boy who was a Bear, and The Snow Door. His latest effort, The Smoke People, is currently looking for a publisher in a world that seems to have turned cut-throat enough for the ‘nineties to seem like a lost time of bumbling gentlemanliness. Charlie has long since abandoned earlier attempts to establish himself as a Poet, and renders his activities in this field meaningful by writing poems dedicated to family or friends, thus ensuring some degree of (at least polite) feedback.

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