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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉

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Best-selling author of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love • they/them • queer neurodivergent nerd 🏳️‍🌈 A BALLAD FOR SLAYERS & MONSTERS (Out now!)

Website: https://ritaarubin.wordpress.com/

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Rita A. Rubin 🌈🐉

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The Of Bards final proofread is over halfway done 🙌🏻 I’m feeling confident that I could even have it finished and ready to format by the end of the month

A screenshot showing to circle progress bars. Overall Progress is at 120 pages read 68.57%
Today’s progress is at 16 pages read.

November 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM

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Jayce and Alexius will definitely get married someday and *maybe* I’ll write about it someday

Art by @vitadivata.bsky.social

Art of Jayce and Alexius from Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin, hugging and smiling at each other

November 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM

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Why do you think I wrote a The Witcher but lesbian book? 😉

Art of Claudia and Kas from A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin

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November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM

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I bet you thought I forgot about my newsletter, huh? Well… you’re right. I did. But I’m going to try using it more often from now on
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November 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM

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Here’s the cover for my slice-of-life, D&D inspired MM romance novel about a knight and a former servant of evil falling in love
Cover art by @thistlearts.bsky.social

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The cover for Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin

November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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Heaven forbid a girl just needs a little snack

A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters is out now books2read.com/u/4A0e6q

Wolf: you smell very delicious, but I will not bite you.

Kas: what a charming and polite creature.

Tsurra: it’s respect of personal boundaries is to be commended.

Claudia: it was one time!

November 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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🌿 Share your oc and a plant you associate with them

If there’s one flower I had to associate with Jayce, it would be a lotus. Lotus flowers can symbolise new beginnings, and Jayce’s story in Of Knights is all about starting a new life once he’s free from the Dark Lord.

A cropped image of Jayce from Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin. He’s a young white man with short, dark blue hair and a scar around his neck

November 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM

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Have a snippet from gay dragons riders WIP of a gay dragon rider feeling a little need for vengeance 🫶🏻

"She loosened her grip and studied the blooded crescent marks staining the heel of her palm. She imagined the blood of Svailas Mar staining her hands instead."

October 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM

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I feel like this is us right now with me being very new to InAudio 🥲

October 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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Had this happen with the Of Knights audiobook (poor fella’s already unavailable after only two weeks of life) Here’s the response I got from InAudio this morning:

We understand your concern about your title availability on Libro and apologize for any resulting frustration or inconvenience.

This is due to a temporary issue that caused our titles to be taken down from the retailer site. Thank you for your patience.

We are working on a prompt resolution on behalf of our authors and I’ve escalated internally and with Libro by looking into your title specifically.

We’ll get back to you when we have clearance from Libro to reinstate your audiobook if you don’t see them live on the platform beforehand.

October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM

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A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters is a The Witcher inspired fantasy novel with an all female cast and a sapphic romance between a monster slayer and a vampire

books2read.com/u/4A0e6q?fbc...

October 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM

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Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love is out now in ebook, paperback and audiobook!

books2read.com/u/b5YEw1

An image of Jayce and Alexius from Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin with a caption that reads ‘What if I was the former servant of evil and you were the knight who helped set me free and we fell in love? Haha just kidding… unless…’

October 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM

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Lady knight = lady monster slayer.

Art piece of Kas and Claudia from A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin with a tumblr text post that says “I just want a tall, handsome lady knight to chance upon me in a moment of severe distress and sweep me off my feet and into her strong and shapely arms just as my strength fails, discarding her sword to the ground in her hurry to do so. Is that really so unreasonable.”

October 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM

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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I just really love my bisexual knight and his bisexual bf who might have worked for a dark lord once 💙

(Art by @/laserlazuli on IG)

Artwork of Jayce and Alexius from Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin

October 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM

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Shadow daddies are great and everything, but what about a handsome knight with big Golden Retriever energy, who will read your favourite books, carry you to bed when you fall asleep and swear an oath on your love because there’s nothing he wants to be more worthy of?

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October 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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I’m so excited to finally reveal that Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love has an audiobook! 🌸📚
It’s narrated by the fabulous Cody Sloan and available now!

books2read.com/u/b5YEw1

October 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM

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Also have to say a happy Lesbian Day to the lesbians in gay dragon riders WIP. They're about to go on a romantic dragon ride.

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Picrew of a woman with long dark brown hair and yellow eyes, holding a sword

October 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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Happy International Lesbian Day to my lesbian monster slayer who couldn’t help but fall in love with a hot vampire

Artwork of Kas and Claudia from A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin

October 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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Queer books? I write queer books! I write queer books about knights falling in love with the former servants of evil in a queernormative, D&D inspired setting & where monster slayers fall in love with vampires while trying to save the world.

ritaarubin.wordpress.com/books/

A photo of a white hand holding a copy of Of Knights and Books and Falling In Love by Rita A. Rubin

A photo of a white hand holding the paperback and hardcover copies of A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin

October 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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It’s spooky season! 🦇 maybe you should try reading a book full of monsters and a sapphic romance between a monster hunter and a vampire 👀

books2read.com/u/4A0e6q