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08/12/2025

📢 THIS WEEK! Join us Thursday, writers, to ask our editors anything. Our open manuscript call goes through August 31, so this week is a great time to check in.

When: Thursday, August 14
Time: 8:30 PM ET
Where: Zoom

Register for this free event ⬇️

08/08/2025

Feels like a good night for a little R.E.M. and some crime (fiction, crime FICTION).

Enjoy this 120 Murders excerpt from Jeff Chon's story "Equations for a Falling Body"—and grab a copy of the paperback from us.

Ebook and paperback available in all the usual places!

08/06/2025

Readers, booksellers, librarians—lend me your eyes! Portraits of Decay by J.R. Blanes is now available to request on NetGalley and Edelweiss.

Consider this your sign to settle in with something unsettling. Request your digital review copy now—check below for directions. ⬇️

08/05/2025

This Top Tuesday would like to remind you that Poe inspired Doyle!

Let's get down to brass tacks: name your top five mystery writers.

08/05/2025

NEXT WEEK, join us for our second Editors AMA and discover the answers to questions like "What are the biggest mistakes in submitted manuscripts?"

From editor Maria Haskins: "Prose that feels like a first or second draft rather than a finished product. Read and reread your story.

Read it out loud."

Register (info below) to join us on August 14 and ask our editors anything - we're meeting at 8:30 PM ET on Zoom.

08/05/2025

4 WEEKS REMAIN: You have until the end of August to submit your novels and novellas to Ruadán Books!

Remember, we're looking for dark speculative fiction, horror, dark thrillers, crime noir, and genre-bending tales that explore the darkness in all of us.

Check below for submission guidelines. ⬇️

08/01/2025

Come see Mike Allen at his last tour stop for The Black Fire Concerto this Sunday!

If you're in the Cambridge, MA area, join us at Pandemonium Books & Games at 6:30 PM ET on August 3—our CEO Richard B. Wood will be there as well.

(Since Richard is one half of the ...in the City editorial team, you might just get some Winter in the City AND Spring in the City goodness as well!)

Register below now! ⬇️

08/01/2025

"This is a horror convention, after all."

J.R. Blanes shares his thoughts on StokerCon 2025 over on our website, reflecting on the liminal space created by conventions.

Read now: https://links.ruadanbooks.com/stokercon

08/01/2025

Anna Koon is our acquisitions editor, so when we asked about the biggest mistakes our editors are seeing during our current open manuscript call—you better believe we listened.

"Basic grammar and spelling issues. When I'm reading something for the first time, I want to be excited, not editing."

Join us on August 14 to ask our editors anything - we're meeting at 8:30 PM ET on Zoom. Registration details below. ⬇️

07/31/2025

Midsummer nights that never go dark. Forests alive with ancient eyes. 🌲✨

If you’re craving speculative fiction soaked in the folklore, shadowed landscapes, and eerie beauty of the Nordic wilderness, this reading list by Maria Haskins is pure magic...dark magic.

📖 Check out her list and discover your next summer read ⬇️

07/30/2025

We're back with a deliciously disturbing excerpt from Mike Allen's The Black Fire Concerto read by C.S.E. Cooney!

Yeah. That happened. What other monstrosities await? What shocked Erzelle more than that?

Available on Amazon, Audible, and Apple Books.

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