"Whether readers listen to RUBY FALLS in the dark or read it with all the lights on, they'll want to carve out some time to explore this rewarding historical mystery." Love this review of RUBY FALLS! @ginphillips.bsky.social https://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/ruby-falls-by-gin-phillips#

"[T]he second half of the story is a roller coaster of emotions and action, hurtling toward an unexpected finale." Five-star review of RUBY FALLS on @bookbrowse.bsky.social!🤩 @ginphillips.bsky.social https://www.bookbrowse.com/mag/reviews/index.cfm/ref/ed331520#review

Great interview with Gin Phillips as she discusses her new novel, RUBY FALLS! @ginphillips.bsky.social @npr.org https://www.npr.org/2026/03/07/nx-s1-5677698/book-ruby-falls

Can wait to read RUBY FALLS by @ginphillips.bsky.social which has starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly AND Booklist!

Get physical with you characters, today on @careerauthors.com @ginphillips.bsky.social #booksky careerauthors.com/digging-deep...

‼️PUB DAY‼️ RUBY FALLS by Gin Phillips and THE POLITICIAN by Tim Sullivan are both out today! You're not gonna wanna miss either of these fantastic mysteries @ginphillips.bsky.social @timsullivanauthor.bsky.social

When you have all sorts of things to do before your book launch...but you decide you really need to build a donut hole waterfall. AND IT WAS SUCH A GOOD IDEA.

Word on the street is this one is gooood. 😊 RUBY FALLS by @ginphillips.bsky.social is out today! It’s a tense historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression. Sign me up!!! @atlanticcrime.bsky.social @groveatlantic.bsky.social

📚BOOK REVIEW 📚💙 ⭐️RUBY FALLS BY GIN PHILLIPS⭐️ ⭐️QUICK THOUGHTS ⭐️ ⭐️Great characters and setting! ⭐️Majority of the book takes place in caverns, very unique! #booksky #bookreview #ginphillips #rubyfalls @groveatlantic.bsky.social @ginphillips.bsky.social reecaspieces.com/2026/02/26/r...

We're less than three weeks away RUBY FALLS hitting the shelves of a bookstore near you...and I may also be landing at a bookstore near you!

I understand that it's awards nominating season. WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is eligible for all sorts of science fiction, spec fic, and literary things. It'd be neat if you read it, liked it, and nominated. But there are *hugely* important things to vote on soon. So. This feels very 🤷‍♂️

@johnarchibald.bsky.social ’s latest on one Alabama man’s deportation, plus numbers I haven’t seen on ICE’s impact in Alabama. A must-read. “18% of Alabama's 3,300 ICE detainees had criminal convictions in 2025. Of those, about a quarter are jailed for traffic offenses.” www.al.com/news/2026/01...

Another starred review for RUBY FALLS! Very grateful to Booklist.❤️

I am a huge fan of the brilliant @ginphillips.bsky.social Look what arrives in bookstores on March 4!

RUBY FALLS gets a shout-out in this exciting list of new reads coming out this year! @ginphillips.bsky.social https://www.ajc.com/arts-entertainment/2025/12/bookshelf-5-southern-novels-we-cant-wait-to-read-in-2026/

Seriously, Merriam-Webster?! Went looking for synonyms because I hate "middle-aged" and then things got so much worse.

"A hyper-immersive novel that fearlessly explores the darkest, most primal corners of the human heart." RUBY FALLS gets another starred review, this time from Kirkus!💎 @ginphillips.bsky.social https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gin-phillips/ruby-falls-2/

Starred review from Kirkus!! Very excited, especially about the line "brilliantly brooding imagination." I have never been called "brooding" in my life, so it's a fun new thing.

Thrilled that RUBY FALLS got a STARRED review in Publishers Weekly! (And delighted by the shout-out to The Frozen River, which I loved.) Side note: I am editing out a big fat spoiler in the review. On shelves March 3, 2026. 😊

It's true! I'm going to Tempe to talk about the novel, utopia-dystopias, and Asimov's mutton chops (more gazing at them, really). Can't be there in person? Attending online should still let you cackle at the slide on "homogeneity."

I reviewed #RubyFalls by @ginphillips.bsky.social on Goodreads, B&N and NetGalley. Please share.

Fun interview with Ali Karim for Shots magazine. We had a wide ranging conversation in which I out myself as a weirdo and shill for @pazsays.bsky.social and @ginphillips.bsky.social, because their books are amazing. Check it out at wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Nothing gets you closer to your editor and fellow writers than an inexplicably small Uber XL. This photo doesn't fully capture the impossibility of knees in a back-backseat. #bouchercon

COVER REVEAL! Here's RUBY FALLS, coming 3/3! @atlanticcrime.bsky.social One body. Five suspects.Total darkness. Set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression, RUBY FALLS is a twist on the locked-room mystery, as well as an exploration of loss and what it means to start over.

May you one day have a friend with a new book that gives you the chance to make a tongue bouquet. (Fake tongues. Don't panic. Also tulips.) Congrats to @alinaetc.bsky.social on her beautiful book of poems that's now out in the world!

As a kid, I always asked my grandmother to make me cream of wheat for breakfast when I spent the night. I love the memory of her at the counter swirling honey into the bowl and I love that even if my son’s childhood has been plenty different from my own, here I am, swirling honey into his bowl.

This is one of my favorite kinds of writing days. I might not write a word, but I'll walk through the neighborhood for a few hours while I move the pieces of my next novel around in my head. (This is also the dogs' favorite kind of writing day.)

UAB has such power in Alabama--they have a chance in this time and place to make a compelling argument for doing the right thing. They're choosing to do the opposite. www.al.com/news/2025/04...

When you wonder if a character could hear three drops of blood hit the floor and decide to test it out in the kitchen with hot sauce. (Yep. Audible splats.)

One joy of editing a novel set in the 1930s is that each round is a chance to add a few more fantastic words that I never get to use in conversation: Saphead. Duped. Flimflam. Cocksure. 😊

Ah, the inevitable arc of book research: you start out studying hunger and crime in Chattanooga during the '30s and instead wind up learning how to can lima beans.

I can tell I’m thinking about my next book release because I start craving nice new Sharpies. 😏

In 1st grade, my son loved making up albums. One was by a fictional band called the Lee-Birds, which included hits such as "Let's Take Medicine Just in Case" and "Look at Those Soccer Players"..... 1/2

The answer to what do you give a 13-year-old actor at the end of a play if he's not into flowers? Moonpie bouquet.

I always tell the grocery store bagger to make my 2 or 3 recyclable bags as full as possible, no extra bags. They usually say "this is really heavy, ma'am" or "sure you don't want a cart?"--and I reiterate, nicely, that they cannot make the bags too heavy for me. (1/2)

Never underestimate the power of a great snout.

As often as I go for a hike or a run to think through some problem in a manuscript, my best ideas come while walking in endless circles around the dining room table. Usually in the dark. While everyone else is asleep.

One last moment admiring the loveliness of swans before I hauled my butt out of reach of this guy.

One thing about having your car in the shop for multiple weeks--don't even get me started-- is that you really appreciate a bookstore in walking distance. I've postponed a lot of things, but I still got my hands on Nancy Johnson's latest, so thank you @thankyoubooks.bsky.social .❤️

Pascal got a haircut and now he looks like he belongs on the cover of a WHO WAS ...? book. #bigheadsmallbody

One thing I love about this stage of life is that some of my clothes are older than plenty of humans I know. I remember buying this skirt at the Express in Montgomery Mall during college. That means it's nearly 30 years old, which makes it feel more like a friend than a skirt.

A little piece I wrote on the joy of murder. With shoutouts to @richardosman1.bsky.social , @tomryanauthor.bsky.social , Andromeda Romano-Lax, and Marybeth Whalen. booktrib.com/2025/02/18/w...

Very excited to welcome @ginphillips.bsky.social and Ruby Falls to @atlanticcrime.bsky.social!

Some news. 😊

Not sure how I feel about the teenage years, but at least my 13-year-old still wants me to blow up a glove when we go to the pediatrician’s.

If you want to feel better about how long the publishing process takes, get yourself a dead engine and wait for a call back from the car dealership. It's like waiting for edits on a manuscript, only you don't get edits. You just get a bill.

Circle of life. There are years where someone slices and scoops your grapefruit for you--thanks, Memama--and then it's eventually your turn to labor over someone else's grapefruit.

Cancer research. Birth defects. Heart disease. Alzheimer's. It is unimaginable, what's being cut. And all of us are going to feel it, Alabama. www.al.com/news/2025/02...

Happy Pub Day to @nancyjauthor.bsky.social and PEOPLE OF MEANS, which is getting all sorts of great buzz! I've got a copy waiting for me at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social , and I can't wait to start.