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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉

@ritacoolbeans.bsky.social

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Best-selling author of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love • they/them • queer neurodivergent nerd 🏳️‍🌈 A BALLAD FOR SLAYERS & MONSTERS (Out now!) Website: https://ritaarubin.wordpress.com/

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · Jul 27

Do you want a sweet little MM slice-of-life romantasy? I’ve got you covered!

Or are you after a sapphic vampire x monster slayer tale with an all female cast? Because I got just the book for you

Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin, a slice of life romantasy with a bi4bi MM romance between a knight and the former servant of evil

A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin, a sapphic fantasy romance with an all female cast and inspired by The Witcher and Castlevania

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 8h

I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say this revelation came out of nowhere

Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t believe you

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 14h

We love to see them hanging with good friends 😌

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MAF @ MCM London M-14 @velnna.bsky.social · 1d

💣💥

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 1d

I think we’re on to something here

Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think EA will take my two figure book royalties in exchange for freeing Dragon Age from their clutches?

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Please someone save Dragon Age from this 😞

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh thank you 😭💕💕

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Sarah Barlowe @sarahbarloweauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 😭 and y’all need to check out all of Rita’s books. You will squeal, I promise 🙏

Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 1d

If you enjoyed Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love then you should be reading:
- Meliora by @tallimorgan.bsky.social
- The Curse of Indy Moore by @sarahbarloweauthor.bsky.social
- So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 2d

What books should people be reading if they enjoy yourself? Shout them out! #WritingPrompt

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 1d

And if you liked A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters then try reading:
- Silver Blood also by @tallimorgan.bsky.social
- Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
- Coal Gets In Your Veins by @catrector.com
- The Modern Mythos Anomaly by @ardentgrove.bsky.social

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 2d

What books should people be reading if they enjoy yourself? Shout them out! #WritingPrompt

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Alex Larkspur 💛 Queer Fantasy @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet & Wild is an MM fantasy romance in a small town with a mysterious forest, and a spirit lurking within! It's sweet as honey, with just a bit of sting! 🐝

Universal Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9
Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...
Cover Art: @northyme.com

A trope arrow book cover social media post for Sweet & Wild! The background shows a forest with sun breaking through the trees. The arrows read: - MM Fantasy Romance - Sunshine MC - Mysterious Spirits in the Woods - Forest Magic - Healing and Growth - Cozy Adjacent The cover description: A young man, Micah, kneels in a field of purple flowers. He holds a bundle of purple flowers in one hand while reaching to gather more with his other hand. He has peach skin, golden hair, and brown eyes. He wears a white shirt, brown pants, and a wide-brimmed straw hat with flowers woven through. Behind him, there is a verdant forest of trees. Bees buzz around the man as he looks down towards his work. The title, Sweet & Wild, is above him and the author’s name, Alex Larkspur, is below him.

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 2d

All I want is to write so many 🏳️‍🌈 books that when I stack them I’m in danger of having them tip over and crush me

Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 2d

Can [REDACTED] hurry up and approve my [REDACTED] so I can scream about it already? 😭

Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 2d

❤️🧡🤍💖

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Eric Bourdages @eze3d.bsky.social · 2d

"It's innevitable."

"Adapt or die."

"Embrace it or get left behind."

"The genie is out of the bottle."

"It'll get better, just wait."

"This is the worst it will ever be."

These things are said to get you to believe/fear you don't have agency to resist, question & criticize.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · Jun 23

"Sometimes there came a sensation as if a hand was drawn softly along my cheek and neck. Sometimes it was as if warm lips kissed me, and longer and longer and more lovingly as they reached my throat, but there the caress fixed itself"

cropped image of an illustration of the vampire Carmilla caressing Laura's neck while she sleeps.

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Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · 3d

Still spooky month, still perfect time to read The Devil in the Woods, my teen horror novella! Here's a snippet from Charlie's POV. She's not the nicest person, but I hope people still come to like her.

THE DEVIL IN THE WOODS available now! ⬇️
🕯️ books.earlronove.com/thedevilinth...

A snippet from The Devil in the Woods. It's all in black and white. To the left is an illustration of Charlie with his blonde pony tail, worried expression, and her fur lined bomber jacket with a black t-shirt. To the right of her is the snippet and it reads: "“Felix?!” Charlie’s anger sung in her voice, but she didn’t care. No one just disappeared. He was fucking with them and when she got a hold of his scrawny ass, she was going to kick it. "

Below the snippet is where to find the book and that is: books.earlronove.com/thedevilinthewoods

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 2d

🎉🎉

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 3d

I know I already have 2 WIPs on the go right now, but what if I put old man yaoi into Bear God WIP? 🤔

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Finn Frei @finnfrei.bsky.social · 3d

Share your couples art♥️

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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 3d

My sapphic space fantasy is still on sale for ✨🌸$1 on my kofi🌸✨

Come get your cosmic lesbians holding hands while the horrors persist 🫶🏻

ko-fi.com/s/748ece637a

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to my dear, sweet editor Kai for saving Of Bards last month from my repetitive words and that I don’t actually know where commas go half the time 💖

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 3d

Also have to say a happy Lesbian Day to the lesbians in gay dragon riders WIP. They're about to go on a romantic dragon ride.

Picrew of a smiling elf woman with short black hair and blue eyes

Picrew of a woman with long dark brown hair and yellow eyes, holding a sword

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · 3d

Good for them 😌