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A.M. Ruggirello

@ashleyrugg

home of the murder-cute™ trope ✨ rep: Alex Land @ Mad Woman Literary FROM DILL TO DRACULA (cookbook, 2020) TULLY THE TADPOLE (pb, 2023) also a book designer: www.cardboardmonet.com

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Hoping you get some sleep soon 🤞🏼❤️

07.03.2026 18:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And for the lady, perhaps a trend featuring my NA Mesopotamian-inspired, high heat romantasy?

(aka A SAVAGE, INFINITE NIGHT)

#writingcommunity #booksky

05.03.2026 20:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@kennedywrites.bsky.social debut novel THERE USED TO BE PEOPLE HERE is out on November 3!

#booksky #blackbooksky

05.03.2026 20:15 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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My favorite episode of InuYasha is Return to the Place Where We First Met (S2E21) and from it I got to thinking of all the pivotal places things happened at in THE BLÓOD BETWEEN THE LINES, my 92k YA horror romance that's my love letter to Romania meets my love affair with bitey creatures.

#booksky

03.03.2026 21:48 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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hot take Tuesday👀

03.03.2026 15:05 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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WISH YOU WERE HERE, OMRATHIS, ARA'KESH 🐂👑🔥

⚔️A princess, chosen by sacred bulls—rejected by her own blood
☠️A warrior, forged by monsters and haunted by a human past
💔A dying kingdom, where love might be the last rebellion...or its only hope

#unhingedpit #na romantasy #ag

28.02.2026 17:53 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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When "it's a good year" takes on an entirely different meaning....

#UnhingedPit #YA Horror Romance | THE INVITATION x BRIDGERTON

🩸Blood is thicker than water… 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑦.🩸

#Editors, can I interest you in a taste?

28.02.2026 14:27 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Come stay at Casteliul Ardeliu where BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER... but tastes may vary.

Ressurecting my OG #unhingedpit for my #YA Horror Romance | Editors ♥️ if interested.

rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

28.02.2026 14:08 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Gonna be spamming you soon!

Just in time for book three to come out in exactly ONE MONTH!!

27.02.2026 17:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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a woman in a red sequined dress with the words cray cray is the way we roll Alt: a woman in a red sequined dress with the words cray cray is the way we roll

YES WE’RE LATE BUT IT’LL BE OK. THIS IS YOUR (less than) 24 HRS NOTICE #writingcommunity Feb 28th, 8am any time zone you want.

Be free. Get unhinged.
#UnhingedPit

27.02.2026 14:51 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 6

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27.02.2026 14:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy #MSWL Day! I acquire everything from picture books to YA, including graphic novels. Behold the thread below for some MSWL items I am hoping, praying, begging, asking very nicely for 👀🥺🎉

26.02.2026 14:50 👍 66 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

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26.02.2026 20:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hoda Agharazi – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

Happy #MSWL Day! I’m an acquiring editor for Entangled. For both YA and Adult, I’m actively seeking commercial / high-concept stories. I’m open to most genres as long as there’s a strong romantic element.

manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ho...

26.02.2026 17:44 👍 62 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 0
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OMG! Check out this Airbnb I found! I think it'd be the perfect getaway to explore Romania and try to reconnect with distant family!

We have to go! 👀

(Any #editors want to join me? Drop a ❤️)

#Goth #R #MupPit *92k words

13.02.2026 17:00 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Kade Dishmon – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

I'm acquiring middle grade and young adult fiction for Peachtree and Peachtree Teen! Especially looking for horror, mystery/thrillers, grounded speculative fiction, contemporary, and romance. Authors and agents, check out my #mswl 📖

26.02.2026 15:01 👍 67 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 2

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26.02.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Laura and I are doing a donation drive for a food program here in the twin cities. We’re offering query critiques in exchange for donations. Details below

26.02.2026 15:02 👍 23 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
Seek The Shore Print Preorders (and ARCs!) Happy Monday, Merfolk! Today is a busy day full of book news, so hold on to your tailfins. First: pre-orders are now live for signed copies of Seek The Shore! I need to know how many copies to order for publishing day, so if you want to get your signed copy as soon as possible, you have two weeks to order!

Seek The Shore Print Preorders (and ARCs!)

Happy Monday, Merfolk! Today is a busy day full of book news, so hold on to your tailfins. First: pre-orders are now live for signed copies of Seek The Shore! I need to know how many copies to order for publishing day, so if you want to get your signed…

16.02.2026 13:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Roses are red, Hydrangeas are teal, capitalism sucks and birds aren't real

Roses are red, Hydrangeas are teal, capitalism sucks and birds aren't real

Happy almost Valentine’s Day from my novel-in-progress! Because even though birds aren’t real, my excitement about the second draft of this book absolutely is 😎

#writing #writercommunity #valentines #wip #capitalismsucks #birdsarentreal

12.02.2026 18:37 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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OMG! Check out this Airbnb I found! I think it'd be the perfect getaway to explore Romania and try to reconnect with distant family!

We have to go! 👀

(Any #editors want to join me? Drop a ❤️)

#Goth #R #MupPit *92k words

13.02.2026 17:00 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Publisher's Marketplace announcement. Storm Literary Agency: Madelyn Knecht has been promoted to associate literary agent.

Publisher's Marketplace announcement. Storm Literary Agency: Madelyn Knecht has been promoted to associate literary agent.

SURPRISE!!!
Ecstatic to share that I am now an Associate Literary Agent at Storm Literary Agency! I'm so excited to continue working with this talented group in this new capacity.

For an idea of what I'm looking for, I'll drop a link to my wishlist 👇

I'll open to queries 2/16!

11.02.2026 16:36 👍 76 🔁 9 💬 11 📌 0

No immediate needs, but thank you!

03.02.2026 12:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok but so much of this picture fits my MMC and setting in A SAVAGE, INFINITE NIGHT 👀

#amwriting #writingcommunity

03.02.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Thank you everyone for all the amazing support during #QuestPit! Please consider visiting this directory to see if you can help somewhere:

www.standwithminnesota.com

#WritingCommunity #horror

01.02.2026 10:22 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

#questpit

01.02.2026 01:37 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you! I'm a sucker for them...

Pun absolutely intended.

01.02.2026 01:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#YA horror romance • BRIDGERTON x DRACULA • #editors ❤️ if interested

👑a deadly royal court
🩸ceremonial hunts & balls
👑meet-cutes + murder-cutes
🩸there's only one haystack
👑Targaryan-esque family trees

Blood is thicker than water...but tastes may vary

#questpit #ag

01.02.2026 00:48 👍 26 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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HOTD x Blood Beneath the Snow

⚔️A princess, chosen by sacred bulls,rejected by her own blood
☠️A warrior, forged by monsters and haunted by a human past
🔥And a dying kingdom, where love might be the last rebellion...or its only hope

#editors ❤️ if interested

#QuestPit #NA #RF

31.01.2026 22:36 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible.
Text: 
A Novel By Kelton Davis
Blood Red Sand
109000 Words
Adult Gothic Western Fantasy
Querying Soon

Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Image: A man in a black cloak and a wide brim western style black hat, holding a revolver; only his eyes as yellow pinpricks are visible. Text: A Novel By Kelton Davis Blood Red Sand 109000 Words Adult Gothic Western Fantasy Querying Soon Art: Apocalypse by Oliver Odmark

Title: Comparable Titles
Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian.
Text drawn with an arrow from each image: 
Found family (from the Devils)
Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller)
Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit)
Unlikely travel companions (from all).
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Title: Comparable Titles Images of the covers of The Devils by Joe Abercrombie, Godkiller by Hannah Kaner, and Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. Text drawn with an arrow from each image: Found family (from the Devils) Reluctant parent figure (from Godkiller) Western-inspire Gothic setting (from Red Rabbit) Unlikely travel companions (from all). Background image: same as first slide.

Title: Pitch
Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck.

 Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him. 

But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all.

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Title: Pitch Text: Corado is just trying to survive the night—every night. Being a nightrunner, one of the few brave or foolish enough to defy humanity's vampire masters to traffic himself and others across barony lines, doesn't make it any easier though. With vampire posses stalking the desert during the day and their ravenous Horde filling the sky each night, it's a miracle he's survived as long as he has. Some of it he chalks up to skill, some to instinct, but he knows that when the dawn comes, the main thing seeing him through the night is good old-fashioned luck. Nothing lasts forever though, and Corado's lucky streak soon comes to a quick and bloody end. After nighttime attack from the Horde leaves him stranded in the desert with a newly-orphaned boy named Hectar, he finds keeping the rest of the world at bay may not be as easy as he thought. Newfound companion in tow, he sets out to find what remains of the boy's family and finally put the whole thing behind him. But as he knows by now, no job is ever so simple. As he tries to escort Hectar to safety, whispers of rebellion start drifting on the wind. With a world free of the Horde beginning to look like a real possibility, Corado must face vampires, twisted monstrosities, and the darkness lurking in men's hearts before he decides whether the world he's cut himself out of is one worth fighting for after all. Background image: same as other slides

SINNERS x THE DEVILS x CASTLEVANIA

There's three rules to surviving as a nightrunner: don't get comfortable, don't be a hero, and don't be unlucky.

Corado's about to break all three.

🤠 Vampire Cowboys
🦇 Monstrous Night Hordes
🏜️ Pueblo Pit Cities

Querying soon!
#A #F #W #QuestPit

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