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Brennan
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They/Them - 🖤🩶🤍💚 - Agender
Reader of all things Sapphic and someday author.
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Happy release day, @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social!!!

If you're in need a good sapphic fantasy, consider picking up A Ballad for Slayers and Monsters!
ritacoolbeans.bsky.social Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · Apr 15
A BALLAD FOR SLAYERS & MONSTERS IS FINALLY OUT!!

Thank you to everyone who has supported my ‘The Witcher meets Castlevania but make it sapphic’ book thus far 💜✨

Find yourself a copy here: books2read.com/u/4A0e6q
Two white hands holding the hardcover and paperback copies of A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin. Below them is text that reads ‘OUT NOW!’
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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6 more days until A BALLAD FOR SLAYERS & MONSTERS!!

Preorder here: books2read.com/u/4A0e6q
When the woman you fall in love with is a monster like the ones who *knife emoji* your family An arrow chart of A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin that lists - monster slayer x vampire - all female cast - The Witcher x Castlevania - sapphic romance - Arcane style sibling angst - *blood emoji* drinking scene but it’s hot Down the bottom it reads: On sale April 15
April 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I'm about to be a menace about this book! It comes out in two weeks and I've already pre-ordered a copy for my core group of friends. Y'all. Y'alllll. You gotta read it!
ritacoolbeans.bsky.social Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · Apr 1
TWO WEEKS FROM RELEASE DAY!!

Thank you @tallimorgan.bsky.social for the blurb 💜
“A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters is packed with a little bit of everything I love in a book. Making for an engaging and thrilling story with compelling characters, unique worldbuilding, a quick-paced plot, and some good ol’ enemies-to-lovers. This is a must read for lovers of fantasy…and vampires.” - T.L. Morgan, author of Silver Blood
April 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Thanks to @acstu.bsky.social for drawing our lil DnD Strixhaven Group!! As the residential Raccoon Dm, I have never felt more seen. 😊 Now for more magic school shenanigans!
March 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Kas and Serisa, the enemies to… actually, they’re just forever enemies
An illustration of a black haired vampire woman with a caption that reads ‘hey everyone. Sorry I’m late, I was doing stuff.’ In the panel below is an illustration of a red-haired woman with text that says ‘she burnt my house down again.’
March 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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If you’re boycotting Amazon, you are well within your rights to do so! But please don’t let that stop you from buying indie books all together. There are plenty of indie books that can be found outside of Amazon.
March 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Trope map for this Sunday as I rot on the couch 🙏🏼
Book cover art for Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis. The cover has two women standing against a starry twilight background with a pale sun. At the forefront Kye stands facing forward, one hand held up with a cold flame and billowing black smoke. She is wearing dark purple robes with a high color and gold accents. She has dark wavy brown hair that comes to her chin, tan skin covered in light scars, and pale gray eyes. Behind her Jude stands in profile, a head taller than Kye. She is in leather armor stamped with meadow floral designs, holding a golden sword etched with light oak leaves. Jude is white, has long auburn hair in a braid with an undercut at the sides. She has a long scar across her nose and freckles on her cheeks. The sun rises behind her. A border of flowers and stars creates an arch above them with a deep purple background. Tropes listed around the cover are: sapphic space fantasy, get in loser we’re going to fight god, trans sword lesbian, chronically ill chosen one, literal sun/moon sword/sheild lesbians, super slooow burn
February 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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😭😭😭 It is so goddamn prettyyyyy!😭😭😭
ritacoolbeans.bsky.social Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉 @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social · Feb 24
I got the hardcover proof today and I can’t stop staring at it!!

Cover art by @annalisejensen.bsky.social
Photo of the hardcover copy of A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin with the dust jacket on A photo of the book without the dust jacket, showing a plain red cover with a red dragon
February 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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*rattles my cup* Book?? Can I interest you in book? Vampire book? GAY vampire book? Big, chonky, gay vampire book???

Yes? Okay 💖 yay 💖
books2read.com/silverblood

(It's on itch too: tallimorgan.itch.io/silver-blood )
A photo of the book "silver blood" by TL Morgan sitting in the snow.
February 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Y’all. This book (A Ballad for Slayers and Monsters by @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social) This book will not leave my brain. I can’t wait for it to release on April 15 so I can screech about it with others.
February 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Did you know that I released a book this week?!
(You probably did know this. I have not shut up about it. BUT JUST IN CASE)

My m/m vampire romance is available now! Join a reluctant vampire hunter & his unexpected vampire ally on a mission to solve strange murders.

Buy: https://buff.ly/3C2XFk0
An arrow chart graphic for “silver blood” by TL Morgan. Surrounding an image of the book cover, text reads: What to expect from Silver Blood: forbidden romance; gothic decadence; reluctant allies to lovers with a side of “who did this to you”; a blend of mystery & intrigue; standalone with a little extra on the side; angsty but HFN ending; many, many nods to classic vampire lore; trevor belmont x alucard vibes (but like if trevor was bad at being a vampire hunter); slow burn; achillean vampire x human.
February 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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You're so funny...
Tales of Sunantar edition.
#sapphicbooks #booksky
A brown woman looks up at a Taravath woman with mauve skin. A brown text box with white text that reads: “You’re so funny!” Thanks, I had to endure years of deciphering ancient texts written by scholars who thought punctuation was a sin, and now I’m falling in love with a woman who thinks grunting is an acceptable form of communication. A Taravath woman with mauve skin, horns, and thick black hair in a bum at the back of her head, looking down at a brown woman. A brown text box that reads: “You’re so funny!” Thanks, I had to survive a war, accidentally gain powers I have no idea how to use, and now I’m falling in love with someone who argues with footnotes.
February 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Cannot WAIT for this!!! The me of 2022 would never have imagined it. I'm so excited!!
auntiesbooks.bsky.social Auntie’s Bookstore @auntiesbooks.bsky.social · Feb 7
We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of the third book in @rebeccathorne.bsky.social’s TOMES & TEA series, with NYT bestselling author of the Legends & Lattes books, @travisbaldree.bsky.social! Join us on Wednesday, March 12th at 7pm as Rebecca and Travis discuss TEA YOU AT THE ALTAR!
February 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social is like a beacon of the bright, warm, welcoming light calling you in from the storm around you. An epic sapphic romantasy! Releasing 15th April

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Full review in 🔗 #booksky #arcsky

stasiaroze.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/a...
An illustrated book cover with two women standing close to each other. The first women has short red hair and dark clothing and a blue scarf around her neck. She’d holding a sword and behind her the second woman has long white hair, white and purple clothing and two vampiric fangs protruding from her upper lip. Both have serious looks on their faces. The background is a dark purple forest. At the bottom of the cover the title reads ‘A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters’ and the author’s name at the top is ‘Rita A. Rubin’.
February 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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The way this book has my soul right now. (A Ballad for Slayers and Monsters by @ritacoolbeans.bsky.social )
annalisejensen.bsky.social Annalise @annalisejensen.bsky.social · Jan 13
Excited for everyone to read this sapphic book about monster hunters and vampires , when it comes out 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩
February 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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The A BALLAD FOR SLAYERS & MONSTERS cover reveal isn’t over yet! I still have to show you the incredible hardcover that @annalisejensen.bsky.social created 👀
Hardcover reveal February 7
February 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The girlfriends who hunt ghosts together stay together! 👀 #booksky
February 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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You can now request an ARC of A BALLAD FOR SLAYERS & MONSTERS on NetGalley!

go.skimresources.com?id=725X1342&...
February 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Black history is American history.

Black literature is American literature.

Black writers are American writers.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMatters #BlackLivesMatter #BookSky #LGBTQSky #AuthorSky
February 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I just really like the way they look together ☺️
Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin
February 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
February 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM