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Darian Rudderham
@darianrudderham.bsky.social
we are stardust and stories
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I write books sometimes
MFA, UKC '27
Intern at The Booker Albert Literary Agency
Free Palestine 🍉
Opinions are my own
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💀 an agent’s guide to A CONSIDERATION OF DEATH 💀

This book is for reader’s who love the slowest of slow burns and is best enjoyed with Hozier’s Unreal, Unearth playing in the background.

art on slide three by nikespera.png on 📸
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This week two clients got “the call” and we’re ending the week wrangling up their contracts.

I know publishing feels harder than ever lately, but good things are still happening, and great books are still being scooped up.

Hang in there. ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
every time I submit another job application and don’t get a call or e-mail, a piece of me dies I think
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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we're still shipping all over Canada for only $5 and we now have a tugboat to help us spread the word! how do we do it? that's really none of your business
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
THE ATLAS SIX meets NINTH HOUSE

A summer research cohort turns into a horrifying experiment when six students find documents about a secret society's attempts to conquer death--and the beast they found on the other side.

#questpit #w #a #sff
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
GIDEON THE NINTH x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH

Desperate to save a rotting city, a woman tasked with caring for a corpse and the only god remaining of an ancient pantheon must find what is causing the destruction.

#questpit #w #a #sff
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Life update!
I'm now interning with Haley Warrington at The Booker Albert Literary Agency! I'm so so excited to start learning more about the agenting process and supporting the authors.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The expansion of a #NovaScotia program is set to be good news for book lovers.

Residents can receive $10 off books written or published by Nova Scotians starting this Friday.

A total of 4,000 vouchers will be available until Feb. 28, 2026.

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
Nova Scotians to receive $10 book vouchers under provincial program
The expansion of a Nova Scotia program is set to be good news for book lovers.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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if you're in Alberta and you want your flu and covid shot in 2026 - yes you read that correctly - you have to preorder them right now. So here's the link. go do that. Just in case none of those people get removed from power by then.

please repost this, as the province seems bent on killing us.
bookvaccine.alberta.ca
October 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Not a lot of posting here because I recently lost my job and am elbow deep in applying for new positions 🥲 the lack of publishing jobs in NS/remote in Canada is so disheartening y'all
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#WritingCommunity! I would love to connect with editors, agents, and other writers over on LinkedIn. Add me or drop a link to your profile below: www.linkedin.com/in/drudderham/
www.linkedin.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
August 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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One thing I will never shut up about is libraries. Genuinely our finest achievement as a civilization. Go check something out for me this week and contribute to third spaces and communal joy in your neighborhood while also enjoying some sweet artistic endeavors made by real humans like you!
August 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Food for thought.
I've thought about it.
Fuck Israel.
August 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I hate beta-reading books I’d acquire as an agent if I were one… like… I’d say gimme but I can’t yet!!!
August 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the problem with getting better at editing is that you always want to edit a book you're supposed to be ignoring for the sake of writing a different one
August 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’d love to hide in a cabin in the woods and write for a week straight 👊🏻😔 but I have to contribute to capitalism instead
August 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The best part about having been beta reading for so many years now on my road to becoming a lit agent is that I can see how much stronger my critique and feedback have gotten over time. If you feel like you aren't giving great feedback yet: keep working on it!
July 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Labubu? More like Labubuild that synopsis.
July 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I have two subs out and I just thought of a GREAT way to change this manuscript so if you excuse me I'll be sobbing in the corner
July 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
There’s nothing like a song coming out and knowing it fits a book you’re supposed to be leaving alone
July 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Books I bought during my summer residency for my MFA ✨
June 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My MFA residency ignited such a need to be back in the publishing world again so here it goes. Canadian Literary Agencies: I want to work with you! You'll be seeing my resume pop into your inbox over the next few weeks, I'd love to connect and take a look at an opportunity.
June 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🪦 You’re a feral, vicious little creature, aren’t you? 🪦

Introducing my MFA Fiction thesis.

SALVATION is a standalone gothic fantasy following a young woman who has cared for a corpse that does not rot her entire life and a lonely god searching for a way to die.

#writingcommunity #fantasy #wip
June 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Me, every time I write a new book: I think this love interest will have dark, curly/wavy hair
My friends: oh, I’m sure
June 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM