This week on Page to Picture, Kim sits down with debut dystopian author Ashley Peters to talk chaos, survival, and the stories that won’t leave you alone.

Ashley opens up about her journey from writing as a quiet hobby to publishing her first novel, In Stasis, a story born from real conversations about society, stagnation, and what it means to survive when the world is falling apart. We dig into the book’s deeper themes like resilience, identity, and finding hope in the mess, plus the emotional heart of the story (yes, we’re talking about the dog 🐶).

We also get into:

• What In Stasis really means (and why it hits a nerve)

• Writing an “average woman” as a dystopian hero

• Why dystopian fiction is having a major comeback

• Ashley’s next project (climate fiction 👀)

• Her debut-novel tattoo (icon behavior)

• And, of course, a rapid-fire round to close it out

If you love dystopian stories that feel a little too real but still give you hope this episode is for you.

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