M. L. Rio
@mlrio.bsky.social
Bestselling author of HOT WAX, GRAVEYARD SHIFT, IF WE WERE VILLAINS. Vinyl nerd, recovering academic, road tripper, dog lady. Pre-order HOT WAX here: https://linktr.ee/mlrio
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Austin people! Would love to see ya tomorrow at @bookpeople.com 🎸 @simonbooks.bsky.social #booksky #books
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Austin people! Would love to see ya tomorrow at @bookpeople.com 🎸 @simonbooks.bsky.social #booksky #books
Fun to see GRAVEYARD SHIFT back for an encore at @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/creeping-fun... #booksky #books
Creeping Fungus: Nine Works of Sporror - Reactor
If you love mushrooms or just want some creepy reads to add to your TBR, this list is for you!
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October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fun to see GRAVEYARD SHIFT back for an encore at @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/creeping-fun... #booksky #books
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Y'all. It's so good.
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Y'all. It's so good.
Had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Toody Cole of Dead Moon a little while back, and how fitting the piece goes live today, when I'm in Portland supporting HOT WAX! What a powerhouse she is. Hope you'll give it a read ⚡ www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/t... #music
Toody Cole, <br>The TVD Interview - The Vinyl District
Toody Cole has the best laugh I’ve heard in a long time—big, unabashed, spontaneous. We’ve traded emails for a month or two, trying to find room for an interview between my touring schedule and hers. ...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Toody Cole of Dead Moon a little while back, and how fitting the piece goes live today, when I'm in Portland supporting HOT WAX! What a powerhouse she is. Hope you'll give it a read ⚡ www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/t... #music
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UK & Ireland!🩷
Grab your ticket to see @mlrio.bsky.social talk about her brand new electric, rock and roll fuelled story HOT WAX 🎸
Buy now: linktr.ee/HotWaxEvents
Grab your ticket to see @mlrio.bsky.social talk about her brand new electric, rock and roll fuelled story HOT WAX 🎸
Buy now: linktr.ee/HotWaxEvents
October 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
UK & Ireland!🩷
Grab your ticket to see @mlrio.bsky.social talk about her brand new electric, rock and roll fuelled story HOT WAX 🎸
Buy now: linktr.ee/HotWaxEvents
Grab your ticket to see @mlrio.bsky.social talk about her brand new electric, rock and roll fuelled story HOT WAX 🎸
Buy now: linktr.ee/HotWaxEvents
LA, you hungry? Treats on me. @booksoupofficial.bsky.social tonight at 7 🍜 booksoup.com/event/2025-1... #booksky @simonbooks.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
LA, you hungry? Treats on me. @booksoupofficial.bsky.social tonight at 7 🍜 booksoup.com/event/2025-1... #booksky @simonbooks.bsky.social
UK + Ireland! Coming your way with as much swag as I can carry, only available on tour 😎 Snag your pass before the show's sold out 🎟️ @headlinebooks.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social #booksky linktr.ee/HotWaxEvents
October 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
UK + Ireland! Coming your way with as much swag as I can carry, only available on tour 😎 Snag your pass before the show's sold out 🎟️ @headlinebooks.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social #booksky linktr.ee/HotWaxEvents
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I'm housesitting right now and just getting over being extremely sick, but sitting outside with the dogs for a bit, enjoying the autumn weather, and doing a bit of reading on @mlrio.bsky.social 's newest novel has me feeling much more human 🧡🖤🧡
#booksky #autumn #reading
#booksky #autumn #reading
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I'm housesitting right now and just getting over being extremely sick, but sitting outside with the dogs for a bit, enjoying the autumn weather, and doing a bit of reading on @mlrio.bsky.social 's newest novel has me feeling much more human 🧡🖤🧡
#booksky #autumn #reading
#booksky #autumn #reading
Good news If you need a Scooby snack for spooky season -- digital editions of GRAVEYARD SHIFT are discounted this month in the US (Kindle) and the UK (Kindle/Apple Books) and from October 7-8 the US print edition is 66% off 🐀🐀🐀 @flatironbooks.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social #booksky
October 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Good news If you need a Scooby snack for spooky season -- digital editions of GRAVEYARD SHIFT are discounted this month in the US (Kindle) and the UK (Kindle/Apple Books) and from October 7-8 the US print edition is 66% off 🐀🐀🐀 @flatironbooks.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social #booksky
West Coast! Next week, come get yer freak on 🪩 mlrio.com/events/ #books #booksky @simonbooks.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
West Coast! Next week, come get yer freak on 🪩 mlrio.com/events/ #books #booksky @simonbooks.bsky.social
HOT WAX is "an electrifying triumph of a novel" in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social 🎸 @headlinebooks.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social #books #booksky www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Book review: Facing the music of the past
'Hot Wax' is an electrifying triumph of a novel with a raw, emotional core, finely crafted by the talented M. L. Rio.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
HOT WAX is "an electrifying triumph of a novel" in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social 🎸 @headlinebooks.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social #books #booksky www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Some hard truths about publishing in 2025 and the infernal sales track in the 'stack today mlriodiscursions.substack.com/p/hot-wax-to... #books #writing #booksky
HOT WAX Tour Diary, 3 October 2025
Back from somewhere
mlriodiscursions.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Some hard truths about publishing in 2025 and the infernal sales track in the 'stack today mlriodiscursions.substack.com/p/hot-wax-to... #books #writing #booksky
Oh hey, I’m in a video game? My 90s-kid heart loves this. What a perfect little slice of soothing in a completely crazy world. www.pockettactics.com/tiny-booksho... #books @tinybookshopgame.com @flatironbooks.bsky.social
We asked Tiny Bookshop's designer about Game of Thrones, genres, and greedy seagulls
Tiny Bookshop welcomes us all with open arms, so we asked what went into the game, where the inspiration came from, and if we can expect more.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Oh hey, I’m in a video game? My 90s-kid heart loves this. What a perfect little slice of soothing in a completely crazy world. www.pockettactics.com/tiny-booksho... #books @tinybookshopgame.com @flatironbooks.bsky.social
Last night at @parkbooks.bsky.social was a trip! What better way to finish off this leg of the HOT WAX tour than a pop-up record shop and an absolutely bitchin' vinyl score? I know how I'm kicking back the next few days before I'm off to the West Coast 📀😎📀 @simonbooks.bsky.social #books #vinyl
October 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Last night at @parkbooks.bsky.social was a trip! What better way to finish off this leg of the HOT WAX tour than a pop-up record shop and an absolutely bitchin' vinyl score? I know how I'm kicking back the next few days before I'm off to the West Coast 📀😎📀 @simonbooks.bsky.social #books #vinyl
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So many friends’ books have come out in the past two weeks. In my trip to Brooklyn & driving back upstate I got to buy their books at fav bookstores: @mlrio.bsky.social, @ericlarocca.bsky.social @raforall.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social, @pfracassi.bsky.social & @brianmcwriter.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
So many friends’ books have come out in the past two weeks. In my trip to Brooklyn & driving back upstate I got to buy their books at fav bookstores: @mlrio.bsky.social, @ericlarocca.bsky.social @raforall.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social, @pfracassi.bsky.social & @brianmcwriter.bsky.social
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“I spent nearly a decade writing and re-writing this book, and in that time I racked up thousands of records and ticket stubs...”
@mlrio.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Hot Wax largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/29/m...
@mlrio.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Hot Wax largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/29/m...
September 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“I spent nearly a decade writing and re-writing this book, and in that time I racked up thousands of records and ticket stubs...”
@mlrio.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Hot Wax largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/29/m...
@mlrio.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Hot Wax largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/29/m...
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Lemme tell you, I adored HOT WAX by @mlrio.bsky.social. Just the character work ALONE makes that book sing.
Recommend a piece of art (any medium) that's not yours that you've recently enjoyed or re-enjoyed. Just something you think might help someone else, cheer 'em up, escapism, w.e.
Just wondering. :)
Just wondering. :)
September 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Lemme tell you, I adored HOT WAX by @mlrio.bsky.social. Just the character work ALONE makes that book sing.
Nice to see HOT WAX in the @nytimes.com again but also nice to resurrect this list of Gothic thrillers I dreamed up earlier this year! If you're ready for some dark and stormy reads, I've got some recs for you: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @simonbooks.bsky.social @kathy-daneman.bsky.social #books
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Nice to see HOT WAX in the @nytimes.com again but also nice to resurrect this list of Gothic thrillers I dreamed up earlier this year! If you're ready for some dark and stormy reads, I've got some recs for you: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @simonbooks.bsky.social @kathy-daneman.bsky.social #books
Two stops left of the second leg of the HOT WAX tour! Tonight at @oldtownbooks.bsky.social Alexandria Alexandria, tomorrow at @parkbooks.bsky.social Baltimore/Severna Park 🎸 What better way to spend a gray, drizzly day than some sizzlin' new fiction? ❤️🔥 @simonbooks.bsky.social #books
September 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Two stops left of the second leg of the HOT WAX tour! Tonight at @oldtownbooks.bsky.social Alexandria Alexandria, tomorrow at @parkbooks.bsky.social Baltimore/Severna Park 🎸 What better way to spend a gray, drizzly day than some sizzlin' new fiction? ❤️🔥 @simonbooks.bsky.social #books
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MY UK EDITION CAME IN A WEEK EARLY!!!
I can’t wait to read this @mlrio.bsky.social
#booksky #reading
I can’t wait to read this @mlrio.bsky.social
#booksky #reading
September 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
MY UK EDITION CAME IN A WEEK EARLY!!!
I can’t wait to read this @mlrio.bsky.social
#booksky #reading
I can’t wait to read this @mlrio.bsky.social
#booksky #reading
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It's officially Autumn, aka the perfect time to curl up with a good book! There's no better time of year to read (or reread 👀) IF WE WERE VILLAINS by @mlrio.bsky.social. 🍂
Thank you to romesreads on Instagram for this gorgeous photo! 🎭
Thank you to romesreads on Instagram for this gorgeous photo! 🎭
September 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's officially Autumn, aka the perfect time to curl up with a good book! There's no better time of year to read (or reread 👀) IF WE WERE VILLAINS by @mlrio.bsky.social. 🍂
Thank you to romesreads on Instagram for this gorgeous photo! 🎭
Thank you to romesreads on Instagram for this gorgeous photo! 🎭
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@mlrio.bsky.social explains the enjoyment and peculiarity of writing songs for fictional bands: “Too much granular detail can suck the life out of something.”
M.L. Rio on Writing Real Songs for Fictional Bands
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. As any woman who’s ever worn a band T-shirt out of the house can attest, the proprietary indignation at perceived inauthen…
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September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@mlrio.bsky.social explains the enjoyment and peculiarity of writing songs for fictional bands: “Too much granular detail can suck the life out of something.”
Just, wow. Absolutely floored to see this amazing @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social review of HOT WAX, "the best book about rock n' roll music since HIGH FIDELITY." www.express.co.uk/entertainmen... #books @headlinebooks.bsky.social
Heroes and villains... the best book about rock'n'roll since High Fidelity
ML Rio went from literary outsider to superstar with If We Were Villains. Now she's back with Hot Wax, an incendiary tale of rock 'n' roll at its glorious best
www.express.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just, wow. Absolutely floored to see this amazing @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social review of HOT WAX, "the best book about rock n' roll music since HIGH FIDELITY." www.express.co.uk/entertainmen... #books @headlinebooks.bsky.social
I did not get raptured, but I did get a residency! Very excited and very grateful for this opportunity to get back to the craft next summer tskw.org/2025-26-pears/ #writing
September 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I did not get raptured, but I did get a residency! Very excited and very grateful for this opportunity to get back to the craft next summer tskw.org/2025-26-pears/ #writing