Gin Phillips
@ginphillips.bsky.social
Writer. Ruby Falls (Coming March 2026). Fierce Kingdom, The Well and the Mine, Family Law, others.
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!
February 12, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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!
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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 🤷♂️
But there are *hugely* important things to vote on soon. So. This feels very 🤷♂️
February 12, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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 🤷♂️
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...
“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...
’Deported for that?’: Football referee forced to leave Alabama for Mexico
Fonzie had to leave behind his fiancée and 18-month-old son in rural Alabama.
www.al.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
@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...
“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.❤️
"It can't get much more excruciatingly suspenseful than a locked-room mystery set in a series of underground caverns."
Starred review for RUBY FALLS by Gin Phillips⭐ One month till pub day! @ginphillips.bsky.social @ala-booklist.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4c2Hnaf
Starred review for RUBY FALLS by Gin Phillips⭐ One month till pub day! @ginphillips.bsky.social @ala-booklist.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4c2Hnaf
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February 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Another starred review for RUBY FALLS! Very grateful to Booklist.❤️
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I am a huge fan of the brilliant @ginphillips.bsky.social Look what arrives in bookstores on March 4!
January 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I am a huge fan of the brilliant @ginphillips.bsky.social Look what arrives in bookstores on March 4!
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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/
https://www.ajc.com/arts-entertainment/2025/12/bookshelf-5-southern-novels-we-cant-wait-to-read-in-2026/
Bookshelf: 5 Southern novels we can’t wait to read in 2026
Explore five must-read Southern novels for 2026, featuring stories of history, mystery and identity.
www.ajc.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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/
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.
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Seriously, Merriam-Webster?! Went looking for synonyms because I hate "middle-aged" and then things got so much worse.
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"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/
RUBY FALLS gets another starred review, this time from Kirkus!💎 @ginphillips.bsky.social
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gin-phillips/ruby-falls-2/
RUBY FALLS | Kirkus Reviews
In 1932, a young woman gets entangled in a gruesome murder mystery when a publicity stunt in a deep underground cave goes dangerously awry.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"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/
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.
"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/
RUBY FALLS gets another starred review, this time from Kirkus!💎 @ginphillips.bsky.social
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gin-phillips/ruby-falls-2/
RUBY FALLS | Kirkus Reviews
In 1932, a young woman gets entangled in a gruesome murder mystery when a publicity stunt in a deep underground cave goes dangerously awry.
www.kirkusreviews.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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. 😊
On shelves March 3, 2026. 😊
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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. 😊
On shelves March 3, 2026. 😊
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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."
One week from today, @erikaswyler.bsky.social will visit ASU as our Worldbuilding Initiative Distinguished Lecturer, speaking about her excellent novel WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON. Please join us for this free event either in-person in Tempe or online wherever you are!
Fall 2025 Worldbuilding Distinguished Lecture with Erika Swyler | ASU Events
Arizona State University welcomes the nationally bestselling author of The Book of Speculation Erika Swyler as a guest in its Fall 2025 Distinguished Worldbuilding Initiative Lecture series. Swyler wi...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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."
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I reviewed #RubyFalls by @ginphillips.bsky.social on Goodreads, B&N and NetGalley. Please share.
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I reviewed #RubyFalls by @ginphillips.bsky.social on Goodreads, B&N and NetGalley. Please share.
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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-...
The Bear Necessities: C.B. Bernard talks to Shots Magazine
Book reviewers can tell you how exciting it is to discover a novel that is ‘different’, that engages the mind and makes one contemplate, p...
wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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-...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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
September 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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.
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.
August 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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.
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!
May 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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.
May 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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.)
May 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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...
www.al.com/news/2025/04...
Archibald: UAB fears Trump reprisals, kills scholarships for Black med students
"They're just another parrot parroting the same misguided racial nonsense and tropes."
www.al.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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...
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.)
April 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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. 😊
Saphead.
Duped.
Flimflam.
Cocksure. 😊
April 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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. 😊
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.
April 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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. 😏
March 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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
March 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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