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Ash is A.M. Ruggirello
@ashleyrugg.bsky.social
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putting the vampires back in Romania (and other stories) ✨ 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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Ash is A.M. Ruggirello @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · Sep 16
✨Now with BIG 5 EDITOR interest! ✨

Updated YA Gothic romance #agentsguide🫀

🦷His life is at stake for biting her

🦇Her life is at stake for surviving

👑All she wanted was to find family, now she has to 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦

#litagents + #editors
~12 requests #querying
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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
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). 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. Background image: same as other slides
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
Editors! Hit up my agent for my #NA Romantic Fantasy🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

A SAVAGE, INFINITE NIGHT

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

#AG #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Editors 👀
#YA Gothic romance • BRIDGERTON x DRACULA

👑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

#ag @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

#questpit #h #pr
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
#YA Gothic horromance #readersguide🫀

🦷His life is at stake for biting her
🦇Her life is at stake for surviving
👑All she wanted was to find family, now she has to 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦

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

#AG: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

#QuestPit #H #PR
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
BRIDGERTON x DRACULA

Eden survives a vampire bite meant to kill her. Bad news: the royal family wants to finish the job. Worse: the infuriatingly hot prince who bit her won't help. Her only shot? Uncover why her blood bleeds with centuries-old secrets

#Agented #PitDark #YA #GH
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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🦜 1K FOLLOWERS EVENT! 🪶 THANK YOU!
Giveaway! 🫶
Winner receives headshot like below!
✨Rules: REPOST + FOLLOW to participate!
At 100 and 200 Reposts I'll add another winner~

Optional: What about my work drew you in? I'd love to know! And/or comment a character you'd like drawn!
Ends NOV 7 ‼
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
I am thrilled/ecstatic/over the moon/*thesaurus your favorite word* to be represented by @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social at Mad Women Literary Agency! When Alex found the heart of my story, I knew she was the one 🫀

#amwriting #amreading #agented
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Saturday night plans: Show 'em what horror fiction can do. Come out and play!
Flyer reads: Horror Writers Association presents THIS AIN'T YOUR DADDY'S HORROR. Author headshots and their corresponding names, in order presented: Laura Blackwell, a pale woman with silvering hair, cat-eye glasses, and a little smile; Fred Wiehe, a thin, pale man with blond hair, light beard, and an intense expression; Ben Monroe, a fair-skinned man with short, dark hair, rectangular eyeglasses, and a bemused expression; Loren Rhoads, a woman with shortish silver hair, awesome cat-eye glasses, and a radiant smile; Jonathan Fortin, a man with long, dark hair and beard, wearing a black brocade coat and an intense expression; and Francesca Maria, a woman with dark eyes, dark curly hair, and the concentration of an author giving a reading. Text goes on to say "Lit Crawl San Francisco" in logo format and gives the location and time: Silver Sprocket / 1018 Valencia St., S.F. / Sat. 10/25 8-9 pm.
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Sharing a moodboard look at my LAST - NOW- NEXT book drafting workload 👀

#amwriting #amediting #amrevising #WIP
October 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Well this is gorgeous (by feyspeaker)
September 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Welp, there it is, the best rejection I think I have ever (& will ever) receive.

THE BLOOD BETWEEN THE LINES is an 83k YA Gothic romance that's my love letter to Romania meets my love affair with bitey creatures

Any #editors want to be added to the sub list?

#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
September 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
Jumping in the trend and sharing the first - favorite - final lines from the two main characters in THE BLOOD BETWEEN THE LINES

(under new representation soon 👀)

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

If any #editors want on the sub list lmk 🫀
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
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!

👀🍷🫀🇷🇴

#YA #R #UnhingedPit
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
How about a little INdifference for today's #WIPSnips?
September 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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How many exclamation points is too many exclamation points?
September 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
✨Now with BIG 5 EDITOR interest! ✨

Updated YA Gothic romance #agentsguide🫀

🦷His life is at stake for biting her

🦇Her life is at stake for surviving

👑All she wanted was to find family, now she has to 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦

#litagents + #editors
~12 requests #querying
September 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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NEW EPISODE

Does literary fiction exist anymore? If so, where is it, and what broadly is going on with reading culture in relation to it?

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Episode 181—Tote Bag Mindset
This week we evaluate the pervasive notion that “literary” or “challenging” fiction is going away, and what that means for our reading culture more broadly in age where the AI slop is only becoming m
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September 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
It's crazy to think there are some world-building elements I was originally so in love with when I first started drafting that I'm actually considering removing completely as I round the end of this first draft 😱

#amwriting #WIP #writesky
September 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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As a writer who has followed Literary Rambles for quite some time, I'm super excited to share my interview and contest details with you all! ✨️
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September 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
#WIPSnips for *outside*. Keeping it PG... for now...

#amwriting #WIP #writingcommunity
September 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
ashleyrugg.bsky.social
Dear #litagents + #editors,

Introducing the #agentsguide to A SAVAGE, INFINITE NIGHT.

🩸 inheritance like a wound that never scabs
👑 devotion that tastes like ash
🩸 siblings made sharp by the same blade
👑 gods who watch but do not answer
🩸 and a girl who bleeds, then rises
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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abuckslater.bsky.social
Today's romantasy craze is directly related to young people 20 years ago falling in love with the experience of reading Harry Potter.
pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · Sep 9
We asked agents about trends they are seeing in the middle grade category, and how they are persevering in a tough climate [of declining sales, and dips in children’s reading scores
Middle Grade Is Down but Never Out
We asked children’s book agents about trends they are seeing in the category, and how they persevere in a tough market.
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September 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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It's official, I'M GETTING PUBLISHED! 😱

After over 11 years, 259 rejections, 116 CNR, & 4 small press offers, I’ve signed a 3-book deal for WAKE with Phoenix Moirai and @whimsillusion.bsky.social!

I didn’t think it would survive the query trenches! It’s real dream come true! 🥹

#WritingCommunity
September 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Hell yes. Go after all of them. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Apple Sued by Authors for Copyright Infringement
On Friday, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of illegally using their books to train its AI.
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September 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM