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Author Benjamin Ryan

@brclothwrites.bsky.social

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#WritingCommunity #NYC 🏳️‍🌈 Author of MADAME ELDRIDGE’S WAYWARD HOME FOR UNRULY BOYS BenjaminRyanBooks.com Amazon Best Seller, Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Award, Book Fest Award Winner, & Book Blogger’s Novel of the Year Award FINALIST! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · Feb 18

Are you looking for an award winning magical story that will have you at the edge of your seat from page one?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Preorder today! a.co/d/6SqFeEf

#WritingCommunity #booklovers #YA #indieauthors 📚

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 16h

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 16h

ONG thank you sooo much!!

Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 16h

AMIDST EVAN'S MIDLIFE CRISIS, HIS CHILDHOOD WISH CAME TRUE--EVERY CAR IN THE WORLD WAS NOW YELLOW. BUT EVERYTHING IS SOON THROWN INTO CHAOS;
THAT OUTRAGEOUS BIRTHDAY WISH OF HIS WASN'T THE ONLY ONE COMING TRUE. AND HIS MOST RECENT ONE IS FILLED WITH DEADLY COSMIC CONSEQUENCES...

#DVpit #Own #Humor

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 1d

There ya go!!!

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Welcome to Midlothian Boulevard

When Savanna Casanova is allegedly declared dead during a trip to Mexico, her neighbors appear to mourn—all the while constructing alibis—but no one is completely innocent. As days pass with two frien...

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Omg yes pls!!! Click the link and sign up!

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 1d

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Welcome to Midlothian Boulevard

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 1d

ARC readers needed for my new adult mystery thriller coming December 6th!!!

🔥 You get to read the book for free!

❤️ All we ask is that you leave an honest review online.

🔪 I promise the twists and adventures are award-worthy…

Leave a message or link below!👇🏼

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 7d

It took a lot of scheduling and rescheduling just to get my CT scan for today. Insurance denied it twice. Finally I got it to go through. I will definitely ask as many questions as I can.

Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 7d

This is what losing 175 pounds looks like.

Never give up on YOU, nor on your dreams. I once said, “I don’t want to die with these stories still inside me.”

Today I am my dream come true.

#AmWriting
#weightlossjourney
#DREAMS_COME_TRUE

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 9d

MAJOR pain around belly button and into side. Possibly a hernia. No big bulging but I can feel it under the skin. Painful or sore to the touch. It comes and goes but the sore feeling is always there. The other day I was at a 7.5 / 10 pain.

CT scan Saturday. Follow up for results on the 16th. 😮‍💨

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 9d

✨📖 COVER REVEAL 📖✨

When Savanna was murdered, everyone raced to establish alibis. No one was innocent & everyone was guilty, of something…

I say it as a warning…WELCOME TO MIDLOTHIAN BOULEVARD.

Thank you @conquestpublishing.bsky.social!

#AmReading #ThrillerBooks
#NewBook #Book
#WritingCommunity

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

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You are too beautiful, and I’m so flattered! Thank you so much for making me feel good today. I’m so sorry you still have to wait, but I promise books are coming out soon!

Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

Hahah none of these are published. This is a pitch event called “unhinged pit” where agents can look at the tweets I’m sending out, and ask for me to query them.

But thank you for wanting to read my stuff!

I have a book coming out in December! I’ll drop the information soon!

Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

This is a pitch event to try and get agents.

Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

Side effects of reading BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR:

🤣 Pants-peeing laughter
🤯 Plot-twist explosions
😵‍💫 Page-turning addiction
😏 Kvetching in Yiddish
🧐 Reflecting life choices

One disastrous wish could shatter the world, but what about many?

#UnhingedPit #A #F #T #OWN

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

CHARACTERS:
“Matilda” minus magic but with flooded eccentricity.

SETTING:
“Sideways Stories From Wayside School” thrusted into a mystery.

STAKES:
“The Westing Game” plus humor and a dash of suspense.

Trust no adult…EVER. 🔥🔥🔥

#UnhingedPit #MG #Q
#Mystery #Disabilities

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

It's happened before, long ago, in an event whispered about only as
"The Crossing."

🌀 PORTALS
🔥 REVENGE & DECIET
🔀 INTERTWINING PLOTS
💣 MODERN DAY WITCH-HUNT
🪔 PSYCHICS & CLAIRVOYANTS

What exists beyond the other side is more than just spirits…

#UnhingedPit #Q #A #T #H

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

While her fiancé impedes her murder investigation…

Karis falls for a local man who shows her a well-kept secret...

Vampires aren’t anything like what the “white myths” claim…

And when she enters their world, she learns of DARK TRUTHS…

#UnhingedPit
#A #F #R #T #Q

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 15d

✅ Agents ask fulls
✅ Agents compliment
✅ Agents unsure how to market

Brave enough to try?

“The 100‑Year‑Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared” + “The Midnight Library” with the magical flair of “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”

#UnhingedPit
#A #F #T #OWN

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · Aug 17

Love the colors!

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · Aug 17

I do them with masks too.

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · Aug 17

I did an art project today! Look!

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thanks! If only an agent would pick it up!

Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

Karis “solved”
a murder in her fiancé’s small hometown but bringing justice would mean unleashing a DARK TRUTH the world isn’t ready for.

Now she must make a choice between secrets or justice…

🪓 Fiancé sabotage
🪟 Dark atmosphere
🩸 Reinvented vampire trope
❤️ Love triangle

#PosterPit #Q #M #S #R #A

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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · Aug 15

Every medium and clairvoyant around the 🌍 experienced the same dream.

The instructions given guided them to open a physical 🚪 to “the other side”.

This has happened once before, but oh how we assume warnings ✍️ long ago are simply myths.

#QueerPit #A #AC #SF #T #S

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