Sometimes I even passed them on as truth. I liked to make them up, even when I was very young. I don’t know when it started, but I’ve always been fascinated by stories. This has really gotten me thinking about what I do, and why I do it. So there.ġ.Why storytelling? What made you yearn to tell a good story, and how long was this story within you before it came out? Anyway, Dyrk’s mom liked the way the name looked when spelled with a “y” instead of the more common “i”. The highland Scots fought against the English, the lowlands sided with them, you see). Truth is, his father is of (mixed) English decent, and his mother (mixed) Scottish, (a Campbell, no less, though her father always emphasized that they were highland Campbells, not lowland. He’s been told many times it sounds like the screen name of a Soap actor or porn star. Still, he’s been heard to paraphrase the immortal line of Billy Mack (played by the ever fantastic Bill Nighy), from Love Actually: “If you believe in Father Christmas, children, like your Uncle Dyrky does, buy my festering turd of a novel.”Īnd yes, Dyrk Ashton is his real name. He’s found he loves the writing process, actually needs it, and will continue to write even if nobody buys the stuff. Writing novels is something he’d always wanted to do but never had the time, gumption, or the maturity, more likely, to actually do. Dyrk Ashton was born in Athens (Ohio, not Greece), on a chilly Halloween morning.
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