Ruthanne Reid's Blog

Greetings, lovely readers! I’m delighted to report that Floriography is almost ready to publish at just under 32,000 words, and I really like how it’s shaping up.

Since it’s connected to Half-Shell Prophecies, I wanted to be sure you had a chance to read that book first—so it’s going out free today.

Download Half-Shell Prophecies here!

If you want anyone else to have it, I’d love it if you could send them to my newsletter. Once they sign up there, they’ll get it free in their inbox, ...

Writing Updates!

I am delighted to share my newest publication with you: The Most Important Word.

Amber Moore has screwed up a lot in her life. She’s due a win, and maybe this is it: a magic portal to lands unknown, created and run by fairy-tale monsters. As far as she’s concerned, survival is a decent trade for her freedom—but servitude is not what she finds. 

Étienne is sad. Handsome. Lonely. Also, a vampire… and she is determined to befriend him, finding hope for them both. In the middl...

Big news!

Welcome back, friends and readers. I’m co-hosting a panel tomorrow! I’ll be sharing the table with incredible director and storyboard artist Megan Lloyd, and brilliant historical fiction author Ren Brooke. 

Our topic is an important one: how to finish your project. We’ll be coming at it from three very different angles, and there will be time for Q&A. 

It streams live on YouTube at 11amEST as part of the super-fun online convention Invictuscon. Check it out!

Other News

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Hello, friends! I’ve got my head deep in the mines, as it were, so I thought I’d give you some updates as to what’s going on. This involves:

Business stuff that might affect your reading from here on outWriting stuffPolitical stuff (only a little, I promise)Business Stuff

If you aren’t aware of what Amazon is doing regarding your Kindle books, you need to know now. 

This may not seem like a big deal. It is, however. This come down to whether or not you actually own the thi...

Happy end-of-January!

Hello, lovely readers! It’s been a heck of a month for me; on top of all the madness in Washington, the fear for my country and loved ones, I also had to deal with a kidney stone so large it required surgery to remove.

Negative five stars, would not recommend. 

Regardless, life continues on, and I am nowhere near giving up. So!

​Here are a ton of new pep-talk videos to help you through. (A lot of focus on hope this month. Gee, I wonder why?)I have removed m...

Happy New Year, lovely readers! For good or ill, 2024 is gone, and it’s time to make something out of 2025.

On a personal note, whatever happens, survive. Everything else will happen as it happens, but you are more important than any other thing.

When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, it was an issue of great importance. When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, merchantry stopped and schoolchildren craned through windows to see. When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, Ravena never bothered to stay on...

He was the most amazing man she’d ever seen—the only one who showed no fear in the face of all that was here.

Happy New Year, lovely readers! For good or ill, 2024 is gone, and it’s time to make something out of 2025.

On a personal note, whatever happens, survive. Everything else will happen as it happens, but you are more important than any other thing.

When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, it was an issue of great importance. When the doors to Az’Kabek opened, merchantry stopped and sch...

She understood why she’d been chosen. That didn’t make it easy.

Welcome to November (a couple of days late, but hush). I have a new short story for you this month: “Chosen,” following a ship of human refugees into space… but not where they planned to go. It’s a side-story to THE SUNDERED, AND IT IS SPOILERY, but it stands alone just fine. 

She understood why she’d been chosen. That didn’t make it easy.

“Imagine it, Sykes,” said Jason Iskinder, his dark gaze weighing her down, holding h...

It’s spooky season, after all.

Welcome to October, lovely readers! I have a new short story for you this month: A Very Nottey Halloween. Set after the events of The Almost-Wedding of John Barron Grey, this story follows Terrance, vampire assassin, as he is confounded repeatedly by small children and bittersweet memory.

Strange children. Strange costumes. A strange night, all around, with an unexpected party.

“Trick or treat!” say the little nips, and I can hardly believe it’s happening...

No words are ever wasted.

So this month has been a blast.

For September updates, here’s what we’ve got: 

34,000-plus words. Three short stories in the works, two novels in process, and a bunch of fanfic.I finally moved the store and re-opened it, in the process finding a new use for my old domain: AmongTheMythos.com! 

I can’t help myself. Here’s a video!

I love this job.

Anyway, enjoy a snippet from Solomon’s Choice, the upcoming science-fantasy novel:

Solomon Is...