Meet us in Pittsburgh! We're all settled in and setting up at #StokerCon. #HorrorSky #BookSky

RSVP'd yet? We hear there'll be snacks Poppy Leathers would risk her lactose intolerance to eat. 🍷🧀📕 links.ruadanbooks.com/POPUP Omni William Penn Hotel, Friday night, walk over from StokerCon. Get a pre-release copy of POP! and meet @angelluiscolon.com! #ThrillerSky #HorrorSky #BookSky

“Time was a battlefield littered with broken hearts.” Meet Leksi, Nightmare incarnate & hopeless romantic. She's one of the god-sibling MCs in this queer dark epic fantasy. Pre-order @xanwriter.bsky.social's BORN OF MALICE here for exclusive art by locky0001: links.ruadanbooks.com/BOM #BookSky

StokerCon and Pittsburgh, we are on our way! Hit reply and tell us if we'll see you there. #BookSky #HorrorSky

Did we lose or gain aura for being fashionably late? cc: @jeffsomers.bsky.social #BookSky #ThrillerSky

Friday night, Pittsburgh! Join us for an exclusive pre-release party for @angelluiscolon.com's darkly comedic organized crime thriller POP!. Get your copy early, get it signed, enjoy wine & cheese (& other delights!). 30 free tickets available! RSVP here: links.ruadanbooks.com/POPUP #BookSky

StokerCon folks! Come join the POP-Up this Friday!

POP!-Up this Friday! Coming to StokerCon? Live in Pittsburgh? You're in for a treat! Join us 6/5 at 8 PM ET at the Omni William Penn Hotel for an exclusive pre-release event with @angelluiscolon.com: we have early copies of POP! available! RSVP for your free ticket: links.ruadanbooks.com/POPUP

At StokerCon this week? We hope to see you! We'll be vending in the dealer's hall, and our CEO R. B. Wood will be participating in pitch sessions. Come out & see us to score an audio-related gift and discount for our online store! Need to register? links.ruadanbooks.com/StokerCon #Pittsburgh

Imagine your books whispering to each other, shelf to shelf. Books DO talk to each other, you know, and they talk to you—explore that conversation with Karen Heuler in “Waving Across the Book Divide.” 📚 links.ruadanbooks.com/heuler #WriterSky #writingcommunity #AuthorSky

“Fear—admiration. Two sides of the same coin, & while Zal certainly preferred one over the other, he would happily accept both…” Meet Zal: underworld prince & problem child. Pre-order @xanwriter.bsky.social's BORN OF MALICE direct for exclusive art by locky0001: links.ruadanbooks.com/BOM #BookSky

* NETGALLEY KLAXONS*

Can't wait to POP!? Get your eyeballs on an ARC of @angelluiscolon.com's off-the-wall crime novel now: NetGalley: links.ruadanbooks.com/POPNG UK: links.ruadanbooks.com/POPUK Edelweiss: links.ruadanbooks.com/POPEW Audio: NG: links.ruadanbooks.com/POPANG UK: links.ruadanbooks.com/POPAUK #BookSky

One of our Milfordites @naomieselojor.bsky.social from 2024 has shared the cover reveal for her novella debut! Congratulations, Naomi!

May is Williams Syndrome Awareness Month. Please take a moment to listen to this message from author @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social . Learn more about WS by visiting @williamssyndrome.bsky.social’s website at: www.williams-syndrome.org Thank you.

We're thrilled to share the cover for THE CITY OF FACTORIES by debut author @naomieselojor.bsky.social: Set in an alternative history Nigeria, this Africanfuturist steampunk novella is a tale of resistance & technological responsibility. Pre-order now: links.ruadanbooks.com/TCOF #BookSky #TBR

The call is coming that only your manuscripts can answer. Have a horror/thriller/noir hanging out on your hard drive? Fine tune and stay tuned... #AuthorSky #writingcommunity #WriterSky

Libby Cudmore's on board for another thousand books about Poppy Leathers. You know how to find out why. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/POP POP! by @angelluiscolon.com is available for pre-order wherever books are sold. #BookSky #ThrillerSky

“Was there still time to go back and undo all the damage…before my legacy became nothing but a cautionary tale?” Meet Niki: musician, scholar, highkey threat to the status quo. Pre-order @xanwriter.bsky.social's BORN OF MALICE direct for exclusive art cards by locky0001: links.ruadanbooks.com/BOM

Oooh, this here is much cool! Thanks to the publisher, editors, and contributors! I have a novella in there: JOSEPHINE BAKER VS THE ISLAND OF HORRORS and, lo, a collection of Baker novellas featuring lots (like, heaps) of Nazi killin' from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social is on the way. 😀 #booksky #blacksky

Sinister Societies has won silver in the IBPA Book Awards for Horror. Thank you, IBPA, and congrats to: @cindyoquinn.bsky.social, @erricknunnally.bsky.social, @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social, @comicazimike.bsky.social, @horrortom.bsky.social, & @inkwellmonster.bsky.social. #BookSky #horror

Warning! Not subscribed to our newsletter? You're missing out on deals, steals, & highlight reels of everything from new releases to events & more! 🦊 links.ruadanbooks.com/newsletter Sign up before Monday (May 25) so you don't miss out on May news and June teasers. 👀 #BookSky #indiepublishing

“Darling is a Southern Gothic that understands the deepest truth of horror fiction: that dread means nothing unless you love the people in danger.” - @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social's DARLING recommends you don’t try to go home again. 🌕: links.ruadanbooks.com/darling

Wondering how to level up as a short story writer, and see those stories in print? Michael Barrington has some ideas. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/barrington Read “A Regimen for Growth as a Writer” on Thoughts from the Writer’s Desk now. #WriterSky #writingcommunity #AuthorSky #writingtips

I MIGHT BE BIASED BUT THIS BOOK FUCKING ROCKS

Poppy's got places to be. And you REALLY don't want to get in her way. Organized crime thriller + hitman ennui + self-actualization no matter the cost = POP! by @angelluiscolon.com. Out this August. Pre-order direct and score a magnet: links.ruadanbooks.com/POP #BookSky #ThrillerSky #TBR

Wake up! The world is breaking. We are delighted to share the cover for BORN OF MALICE, a South African & Finnish mythology-inspired queer dark epic fantasy by award-winning author & Sauúti Collective member @xanwriter.bsky.social. Pre-order: ✨ links.ruadanbooks.com/BOM #BookSky #DarkFantasy

Missed the Five Funerals launch party? Catch up with @jeffsomers.bsky.social in conversation with @nmamatas.bsky.social now on YouTube! Watch the Q&A and serial mini-readings: 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/FFYT Don't forget to like and subscribe while you're there. #BookSky #ThrillerSky #HorrorSky

Nonfiction writers! Thoughts From the Writer’s Desk is OPEN. We are looking for unpublished, original nonfiction essays about the writing life, from tips on the craft/business to thoughtful columns on horror, dark thrillers, & more. Guidelines: links.ruadanbooks.com/nonfiction #WriterSky

Looking for a scary spring read? Get Spring in the City from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social via your favourite bookshop, or visit: 🌸 links.ruadanbooks.com/spring 🌸 Tales of the dark underbelly of different cities in spring, including my story 'Chester' #BookSky #HorrorSky #FolkHorror #Chester #horror

You never know into what perilous waters a book might take you. Looking for a copy of Sinister Societies? Buy wherever books are sold, or direct: links.ruadanbooks.com/buyS6 Illustration by Kip Ayers from @comicazimike.bsky.social’s Vengeful Spirits. #BookSky #darkfantasy #HorrorSky

Listen as @eaaymar.bsky.social gives it to you straight: “This is a book no other writer could create, and nobody writes like Angel Luis Colón.” Pre-order POP! by @angelluiscolon.com now and see for yourself August 18! 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/POP #BookSky #ThrillerSky #TBR

Booksellers, librarians, reviewers—run to Edelweiss, where you can now request Darling by @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social! Small town living can be paradise, but Darling is hell on Earth for one single mom who must return home in this Southern Gothic cautionary tale. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/DEW

Booksellers, librarians, reviewers—run to Edelweiss, where you can now request Darling by @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social! Small town living can be paradise, but Darling is hell on Earth for one single mom who must return home in this Southern Gothic cautionary tale. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/DEW

Congratulations to our Sinister Six* and editor Linda Hartley: Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors has been named a finalist for the IBPA Book Award in Horror! *The Sinister Six are Cindy O'Quinn, Errick Nunnally, Mercedes M. Yardley, Michael Burke, Tom Deady, & Sarah Read.

LAST CALL for novellas! We’re looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, and dark speculative fiction—if you’ve got a complete manuscript between 25k-40k words in one of these genres, we want to hear from you. Guidelines: links.ruadanbooks.com/Novellas26 #WriterSky #writingcommunity #AuthorSky

For the Thursday morning folks: I wrote an essay about the silence/waiting part of publishing. Writing this helped me process my own feelings, and I hope it helps others know they’re not alone. ❤️

Is ghosting now just another part of the submissions process? @lmanusos.bsky.social digs in with “The New Art of Ghosting” for Thoughts from the Writer’s Desk. Read now: links.ruadanbooks.com/manusos Writers, let us know: are you dealing with ghosting more often these days? #WriterSky #AuthorSky

This book is a scream!

We're delighted to share the cover for @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social's THE BRINK! When the keeper of a demonic hell hole falls in love with the perfect sacrifice, she must choose between loyalty to her family & village, or her own chance at happiness. Order: links.ruadanbooks.com/thebrink #BookSky

Chester is calling and refuses to go to voicemail; have you grabbed your copy of Spring in the City yet? Available wherever books are sold, or direct: 🌸 links.ruadanbooks.com/spring Photo of the Chester Civic Trust mosaic in the Roman Gardens by contributor @diebooth.bsky.social. #BookSky #TBR

Something wicked is coming… Book announcement from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social tomorrow

You, too, can be as cool as S.A. Cosby* and read POP! by @angelluiscolon.com. Pre-order wherever books are sold, or direct from us: links.ruadanbooks.com/POP *I have been informed that we cannot guarantee this level of coolness, apologies. But you have a chance! #BookSky #ThrillerSky #TBR

This excerpt from Todd Grimson’s “See America” lays out scenes of prosaic devastation with a poet's gimlet eye, all with a background soundtrack of Cabaret Voltaire's prescient "Slammer." Grab 120 Murders, edited by @nmamatas.bsky.social, wherever books are sold. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/120M

This excerpt from Todd Grimson’s “See America” lays out scenes of prosaic devastation with a poet's gimlet eye, all with a background soundtrack of Cabaret Voltaire's prescient "Slammer." Grab 120 Murders, edited by @nmamatas.bsky.social, wherever books are sold. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/120M

Are you a bookseller or librarian eager to snag POP! by @angelluiscolon.com? Request it on Edelweiss! Poppy Leathers is a burned-out, bright-eyed sociopath who won’t let the retirement of her hitman boss take her out, too; chaos ensues. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/POPEW #BookSky #ThrillerSky #TBR

The stunning cover art for DARLING by @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social is by returning cover artist @hrabotalesser.bsky.social.

We're delighted to share the cover for DARLING by @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social, a small town horror meets domestic thriller in metaphysically off-kilter rural Louisiana. Out 09.08.26! Pre-order early & receive a “Welcome to Darling” magnet: 🌕 links.ruadanbooks.com/darling #BookSky #HorrorSky

Writers of nonfiction! Our online column, Thoughts From the Writer’s Desk, is OPEN. Send us your unpublished, original essays about the writing life, from in-depth tips on the craft and business to thoughtful columns on genre fiction. Details: links.ruadanbooks.com/nonfiction #AuthorSky

It's been a beautiful spring day in Chester, the setting for my story in Spring in the City from @ruadanbooks.bsky.social - available at your favourite bookshop. Or visit: 🌸 links.ruadanbooks.com/spring 🌸 #BookSky #HorrorSky #FolkHorror #Chester