Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier
@armbernier.bsky.social
Writing Caribbean joy…and mystery…one story at a time! 🇻🇮👩🏾💻🙌🏾🤩
www.ashleyruthbernier.com
www.ashleyruthbernier.com
Time to spill the tea! Meet the cover of my debut novel-length work, The Bush Tea Murder, coming from Crooked Lane Books in April 2026!
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Time to spill the tea! Meet the cover of my debut novel-length work, The Bush Tea Murder, coming from Crooked Lane Books in April 2026!
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
I’ve been MIA for a while, but I’m ready to spill some big news this week! Stay tuned…😉🤫✍🏾
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I’ve been MIA for a while, but I’m ready to spill some big news this week! Stay tuned…😉🤫✍🏾
Happy VI Emancipation Day! 🇻🇮✊🏾
July 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy VI Emancipation Day! 🇻🇮✊🏾
If you’re a Macavity voter and enjoy your (fictional!) murders with a side of 🇻🇮soca and mas, I’d be honored if you’d consider “Murder Can’t Stop de Carnival” (EQMM Jul/Aug ‘24)! Read here free for a limited time: ashleyruthbernier.com/blank
Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, Author
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May 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
If you’re a Macavity voter and enjoy your (fictional!) murders with a side of 🇻🇮soca and mas, I’d be honored if you’d consider “Murder Can’t Stop de Carnival” (EQMM Jul/Aug ‘24)! Read here free for a limited time: ashleyruthbernier.com/blank
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@rhppress.bsky.social presents: Writing Short Crime Fiction That Stands Out. Join instructor @steveweddle.bsky.social (Author of THE COUNTY LINE) for an online course May 10-24. Learn how to craft stories that grab editors and readers alike. More info: bit.ly/3Y7LTwy
April 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
@rhppress.bsky.social presents: Writing Short Crime Fiction That Stands Out. Join instructor @steveweddle.bsky.social (Author of THE COUNTY LINE) for an online course May 10-24. Learn how to craft stories that grab editors and readers alike. More info: bit.ly/3Y7LTwy
You’re going to want to get your hands on this one early—everything he writes is 🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩🤩
Coming soon from Rock and a Hard Place Press
The day one bestselling collection from award winning author @cwblackwell.bsky.social:
WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN
available for preorder right now, coming July 18th.
The day one bestselling collection from award winning author @cwblackwell.bsky.social:
WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN
available for preorder right now, coming July 18th.
April 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
You’re going to want to get your hands on this one early—everything he writes is 🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩🤩
Here we go! Details below 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
A dash of horror. A bit of international. Issue 12 of @rhppress.bsky.social available now: bit.ly/4iaXke4 #CrimeFiction
RHP Magazine Issue 12 — Rock and a Hard Place Press
We've hit the dirty dozen with Rock and a Hard Place Magazine!
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April 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Here we go! Details below 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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April 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I've got a Stack. How about you? victordeanda.substack.com/p/how-you-li...
Submissions opportunity 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
…important topic AND an awesome guest editor? Check this OUT!
…important topic AND an awesome guest editor? Check this OUT!
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
RHP and guest editor @curtisippolito.bsky.social are looking for submissions for a new anthology - one related to climate change, the murder of the planet, and all the crimes in between.
Check out the call below and get ready to submit
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/climatechange
RHP and guest editor @curtisippolito.bsky.social are looking for submissions for a new anthology - one related to climate change, the murder of the planet, and all the crimes in between.
Check out the call below and get ready to submit
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/climatechange
Call for submissions - Climate change crime fiction anthology — Rock and a Hard Place Press
www.rockandahardplacemag.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Submissions opportunity 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
…important topic AND an awesome guest editor? Check this OUT!
…important topic AND an awesome guest editor? Check this OUT!
🤩🤩 What a great day when this awesome collection is out in the world! Yes, my story “A Li’l Something Extra” is in here, but there are 11 other hard hitting pieces included, and you’ll enjoy them all!
NEW BOOK TIME -- Our print edition of 2024's Stone's Throw Stories is now available, wherever you purchase your books. Featuring a year's worth of the hardest hitting noir around. www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...
Stone's Throw 2024 annual anthology — Rock and a Hard Place Press
A year's worth of the hardest hitting noir.
www.rockandahardplacemag.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🤩🤩 What a great day when this awesome collection is out in the world! Yes, my story “A Li’l Something Extra” is in here, but there are 11 other hard hitting pieces included, and you’ll enjoy them all!
Reposted by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier
NEW BOOK TIME -- Our print edition of 2024's Stone's Throw Stories is now available, wherever you purchase your books. Featuring a year's worth of the hardest hitting noir around. www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...
Stone's Throw 2024 annual anthology — Rock and a Hard Place Press
A year's worth of the hardest hitting noir.
www.rockandahardplacemag.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NEW BOOK TIME -- Our print edition of 2024's Stone's Throw Stories is now available, wherever you purchase your books. Featuring a year's worth of the hardest hitting noir around. www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...
I enjoyed chatting with my fellow newbies and the OG editors 😎 at @rhppress.bsky.social earlier this week! Listen in for a great conversation👇🏾
Rock and a hard place is storming in to the new year with a new, expanded team. Hear from our new editors and what they're looking for here:
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New RHP editors tell you what they are looking for! | Rock and a Hard Place Press
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January 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I enjoyed chatting with my fellow newbies and the OG editors 😎 at @rhppress.bsky.social earlier this week! Listen in for a great conversation👇🏾
A ❄️🌨️SNOW DAY❄️🌨️ means a WRITING day!
…after playing in the snow, that is. ☃️
…after playing in the snow, that is. ☃️
January 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A ❄️🌨️SNOW DAY❄️🌨️ means a WRITING day!
…after playing in the snow, that is. ☃️
…after playing in the snow, that is. ☃️
Final lines. I think they’re just as important as beginnings. Drop a comment, #authorfriends… what do you think you do really well?
As authors, we always talk about the things we hate about our writing. But today I want you to tell me the one thing you love about your writing. What is the one thing that you do really well?
January 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Final lines. I think they’re just as important as beginnings. Drop a comment, #authorfriends… what do you think you do really well?
If you’re heading to Malice Domestic, I’d be honored if you’d consider my short story, Afterglow, on your Agatha ballots! 🇻🇮🌅🤫🍹
January 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If you’re heading to Malice Domestic, I’d be honored if you’d consider my short story, Afterglow, on your Agatha ballots! 🇻🇮🌅🤫🍹
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Our latest Stone’s Throw story is up and available, and you don’t want to miss it. This one mixes classic noir tropes with a very modern character out to get hers. Read “Tempting Destinee” by Lisa Robertson, now, for free, at Stone’s Throw!
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...
ST3.1 | "Tempting Destiny" — Rock and a Hard Place Press
Sometimes, rules are there for a reason, and grandpa's rules mean the difference between realizing your destiny, or getting fucked by fate . . .
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January 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Our latest Stone’s Throw story is up and available, and you don’t want to miss it. This one mixes classic noir tropes with a very modern character out to get hers. Read “Tempting Destinee” by Lisa Robertson, now, for free, at Stone’s Throw!
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...
A new year brings new opportunities!
Happy New Year from your friends at Rock and a Hard Place Press! New year, new opportunities to submit your work! We’re open for general submissions until January 25 — www.rockandahardplacemag.com/submissions
Submissions — Rock and a Hard Place Press
Submissions
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January 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
A new year brings new opportunities!
I doubled my author bookshelf this year! 🤩 Here’s to lots more great stories and mayhem on the page in 2025. 🥂
January 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I doubled my author bookshelf this year! 🤩 Here’s to lots more great stories and mayhem on the page in 2025. 🥂
Just dropping this li’l reminder right here…
December 28, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Just dropping this li’l reminder right here…
They sure do…I’ve got a story in this one about a quintessential part of every Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 holiday—maubi 🍺!!! Oh, and blackmail, too…
Have you checked out the Festive Mayhem 4 mystery and crime fiction anthology yet? Books make great gifts! www.marlabradeen.com/books/anthol... #BookSky #mystery #CrimeFiction
December 25, 2024 at 3:09 AM
They sure do…I’ve got a story in this one about a quintessential part of every Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 holiday—maubi 🍺!!! Oh, and blackmail, too…
Yesssss, @stschorey.bsky.social !!!! Great story, fun Christmas noir, and awesome writing!
December 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Yesssss, @stschorey.bsky.social !!!! Great story, fun Christmas noir, and awesome writing!
It’s the first mystery-related organization I joined when I decided to take my writing more seriously, and it continues to bring so much value to my writing life!
Invest in your writing in 2024!
Join the amazing, supportive SinC Community now at: www.SistersInCrime.o...
Sisters in Crime... Where Writers Belong
Join the amazing, supportive SinC Community now at: www.SistersInCrime.o...
Sisters in Crime... Where Writers Belong
December 22, 2024 at 11:24 PM
It’s the first mystery-related organization I joined when I decided to take my writing more seriously, and it continues to bring so much value to my writing life!
No joke—I’m thrilled that my story, “Six-Armed Robbery”, will appear in Malice Domestic’s conference anthology, “Mystery Most Humorous”, in 2025!!!🤩🤩🤩🇻🇮🕷️🪲🪳🦗
December 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
No joke—I’m thrilled that my story, “Six-Armed Robbery”, will appear in Malice Domestic’s conference anthology, “Mystery Most Humorous”, in 2025!!!🤩🤩🤩🇻🇮🕷️🪲🪳🦗
You had me at “micro Christmas crime story”!
Hey folks! Got a micro Christmas crime story over at Punk Noir that just got published. Damn grateful to be part of this series. Hope y’all enjoy!
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Elf Shoes — a Christmas Crime by Casey Stegman
Elf Shoes by Casey Stegman Here’s the thing: elf shoes are fucking tough to run in. They also got these little bells that jangle really loudly. Not ideal when trying to get away from two goons…
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December 17, 2024 at 3:17 AM
You had me at “micro Christmas crime story”!