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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 11/09/2026

I did a thing! Launching my very first Kickstarter for a 5-year anniversary deluxe edition (and my first hardcover), full of illustrations by me and no AI. 🥰 Follow the pre-launch page to get notified once it's live!

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Coming soon: Spirit Seeker: Illustrated Urban Fantasy Deluxe Hardcover

Action-packed supernatural adventure in Europe – limited edition with foiled cover, sprayed edges and 10+ illustrations by the author

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Aaron Dick- Author @author-aarondick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An amazing group of talents here, go and look them up! @judylmohr.com @janna-ruth.com 🪐📚💙📚🇳🇿 #SirJuliusVogelAwards

The official Sir Julius Vogel awards post has gone up on SFFANZ.nz

Best novel
Dancing in the purple rain
Judy l more

Best youth novel
Wyld witch weather
Janna ruth

Best short story
Have a nice death
Brandon Keaton

Best nnovella
Primaries & green tea
Melissa gunn

Best Collected work
Omens
Aaron dick

Best dramatic presentation
Warren's vortex

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 01/09/2026

Fancy a #TuesdayTeaser from Wyld Witch Calamity? 😏 Safe to say, the stakes are going up! “Starting a war is a horrible plan. It’ll only breed more resentment, more pain, more kids thrown into power plants.” “I’m not starting the war, Leni; I’m ending it.” 💚Pre-order here: books2read.com/wyldwitch3

3D Mock-up of Wyld Witch Calamity and the quote mentioned in the text

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 29/08/2026

Check out the Narratess Indie Book Sale, one of the biggest fantasy, science fiction and horror sales of the year! 😍 Whole sale: indiebook.sale Fantasy Thrill Bundle on Itch (44 books for $105): itch.io/b/3867/narra... Mega Bundle on Itch (107 books for $230): itch.io/b/3863/narra...

Indie Book Sale Banner highlighting Spirit Seekers 1-5 for 2.99.

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Krista Walsh, Fantasy Author 🍁 @kristawalshauthor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

TOMORROW!!!!!!! Why should you click that little "Notify me on launch" button? Because you'll get an email the moment the campaign goes live, and there are some pretty snazzy early bird perks for the first backers. I AM SO FREAKING EXCITED!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kri...

Man leaning over woman who is biting her lip. Coming to Kickstarter in 1 Day

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 21/04/2026

Between ghost whisperer Alix, true spirit seeker Rika, and my Ashuan & Wyld Lands witches, I have my fair share of fantastic heroines. But there are many more to discover in this fantasy & scifi giveaway! 💙📚🪐 storyoriginapp.com/to/EIXXgfA

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Fantastic Heroines in Fantasy & Science Fiction (April)

Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | LitRPG

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 19/04/2026

Insane amount of rain last night in Wellington, resulting in flash-flooding across the city. Never been more happy about living on a hill (then again, there's been landslides too...) 😬

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 13/04/2026

It's time for my favourite trope: Found Family! If you love it as much as I do, I've got a treat for you! Check out this all-genre giveaway for stories where friends are the real family! 🥰 storyoriginapp.com/to/TFrH4Lj

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Found Family: An All-Genre Giveaway of Stories Where Friends ARE Family

Urban Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Friendship Fiction | Young Adult

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Hey folks, the annual Narratess spring sale is here! Get hundreds of sci-fi, fantasy, & horror books for 🚨$1.99 or less🚨 There are itchio bundles & reduced prices on Amazon & elsewhere! 🏳️‍⚧️Women & Other Creatures🏳️‍⚧️ is $1.99 for the sale--5 shorts, 2 novelettes, & a novella! indiebook.sale

Indie book sale indiebook.sale fantasy, sci-fi & horror 11-13 april with a design of a smiling dragon, skulls, diamonds, and a planet, all in space! Next to it is the cover of women and other creatures by dani finn, showing a colorful woman surrounded by birds. In between it says 100s of SFFH books on sale, some free, some .99, some 1.99

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 16/03/2026

Highlighting some awesome Aussie & Asia-Pacific authors on Itch! Get the whole bundle this week 🥰 itch.io/b/3585/aussi...

Aussie & Asia-Pacific Authors Bundle, 16 books for $16, 16th - 30th March, only on itch.io - showing the covers of 16 books including Ghosts of the Catacombs by Janna Ruth

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 09/03/2026

Describe your plot in five words or less— if you dare 💨 WYLD WITCH WEATHER - her emotions cause storms

Selfie with a card showcasing the cover of Wyld Witch Weather, a YA academy story

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Daily bunny no.3268 is proud of your achievement

A bunny with a small camera stares surprisedly at a fox, who proudly has a fish it caught in its mouth. They are in the woods

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 21/02/2026

Have been in a production marathon since last June (just one deadline after the other), but this week, I've finally reached the end. Next deadline is 8 months away, the tasks left will only take a day or two and aren't urgent in any significant way. Lots to do, but also freedom to breathe! 🥳

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 20/02/2026

I've completed a series today! 🥳 2.5 years, 9 books + prequel, and lots of belly rubs for cute hedgehog Malou. 💙 Start with Ghosts of the Catacombs ($0.99): books2read.com/ghostsofthec... 💙 New: Ghosts of the Revolution ($4.99): books2read.com/ghostsofther... 💙📚 Urban Fantasy with French Flair

Celebrating the final book of the series, showing the covers for all reduced books and the new book Ghosts of the Revolution.

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 20/01/2026

Copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand (\_/) (°-°) />🦔< My bunny made a new friend. (Of course, it’s a hedgehog)

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 30/12/2025

*cough* if anyone's wondering what I was up to all December... pretty chuffed with the result of my first DLC - I mean, over one hour (and 1777 parries)! Absolutely LOVE Clair Obscure - can't wait to start again to find all the story hints I missed on the first runthrough 🥰

Battle Screen Screenshot from Clair Obscure: Expedition 33, showing Victory over Duolliseo, one of the new DLC bosses. Battle was finished with Lune and Sciel in 1:10 hours with 1177 successful parries. Other stats and rewards are also shown.

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Book Notification @booknotification.com · 12/12/2025

Trouble seems to follow the heroine of #WyldWitchWeather by @janna-ruth.com , a girl whose emotions trigger real storms. While other teens skip class, she accidentally destroys classrooms when her tears call the wind. (2/5)

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 30/11/2025

Give me 5 games to get to know you: - Dragon Age: Origin - Curse of Monkey Island - Lemmings - Golden Sun - Little Big Adventure

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𝓛𝓮𝓮𝓷 🌻 @luneillusoire.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Bless those tired eyes – Roseblood [OC] #darksouls #soulsborne #eldenring #ocsky

A digital artwork of my soulsborne OC - Roseblood. The illustration of her eyes during the invents of the games. First panel is Dark Souls Remastered, second - Dark Souls 3, and the last is Elden Ring.

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Emilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

#3157 A helpful tutorial

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.'
The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross.
The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 17/11/2025

Finally made myself contact booksellers and bloggers for my upcoming release 🙈 Let's see what the response is. Oh, and if anyone wants to be an ARC reader, let me know forms.gle/VGPRug6f1TPz... (no FB account necessary, just makes things easier) #yafantasy #booksky #arcreader #newrelease 🪐📚

A wooden board with flowers background for a 3D mock-up of Wyld Witch Weather by Janna Ruth, a YA fantasy book show-casing a girl with purple hair controlling the weather. Text says Looking for ARC Readers and Get your copy now.

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🎃 Vyria Durav, Dread Wyrm Princess of Spookytown 🎃 @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

buy art, talk about creative works, boost creator's works and ways to pay them, be passionate about creative works. Reblog that art, tell that writer you love their work, give them money if you are able, make their comms and patreons and such visible to those who can pay if you are unable to.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 07/11/2025

10/10 take. No notes.

divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h
ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 07/11/2025

Milena: playing with her father and using wind magic to fly from the swing into his arms. Romy: cuddling with her grandma, listening to her stories of her youth during the days of globalisation (yes our days 😭)

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 07/11/2025

Had a spam request on Instagram today, gushing about my Spirit Seeker series and how much she wants to draw the spirit world, after I captured the theme of loss & grief so well... Girl, the only thing the nature spirits in that series are grieving is the progression of climate change! 🙄

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 04/11/2025

Happy #TeaserTuesday! There's only 5 weeks until WWW Weather? 😁 Here's one of my favourite sentences of the book. “Earth magic steadies air mages. Earth magic in an air witch is like binding a stone around a bird’s neck. It’s cruel.” You can pre-order the book here: books2read.com/wyldwitch1

Cover mock-up of Wyld Witch Weather by Janna Ruth coming Dec 2025 on a stormy purple background with a quote: “Earth magic steadies air mages. Earth magic in an air witch is like binding a stone around a bird’s neck. It’s cruel.”

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Σ(°ロ°) gin @ginsays.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

IT'S NOVEMBER but I'm not ready to give up the ghost just yet!! Go for it young miss!! 💚 #spookycute #ocs

a young miss sits in an arm chair tilting a book to her ghostly companion, who's pulling the "arm over back of chair not quite around shoulder" move. all the portraits hung on the wall look on in excitement of this development. go for it girls!!!

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 31/10/2025

Happy @nano2point0.bsky.social! Already put my first words down (NZ privileges ;)) What’s everyone writing this month?

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 31/10/2025

😱 Guys, it's done! A few incoherent thoughts: - biggest book of the series (only barely, though) - there's an epilogue - I cried - several times - but I also pumped my fist in the air and led a revolution... or well, let Alix lead one. 😁 Need to pre-order? 👉 books2read.com/ghostsofther...

Cover illustration of Ghosts of the Revolution, showing a brunette woman pumping her fist in the air in front of the barricades. A speech bubble says: It's done! Parisian Ghosts is officially drafted. The Revolution has begun.

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 31/10/2025

Last chapter! Last chapter!

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 30/10/2025

Alright. Went shopping, made cake pops and wrote my newsletter. It's time to finish that book now! 😁 #writing

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 30/10/2025

You didn't think you'd get out of Halloween without some shocking news! Quick, the prices! They've been slashed into pieces! 😱 View the carnage on itch.io and treat yourself to 28 fantasy books for only $9.99. 👉 itch.io/b/3311/hallo... #writing #bookbundle

Graphic for the Happy Halloween Flash Sale, showing 28 covers and a price of $9.99

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 30/10/2025

How to avoid finishing a book, a pro-tipp: Just keep adding chapters. 🙃 Still 3 chapters to go. #writing

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 29/10/2025

Four more chapters until the end of my series. So pumped but also scared! #writing

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 26/10/2025

Ended up hilariously matching with Elijah Wood at Armageddon Auckland (best sales ever, btw). 😁

Photo of me in a white and blue floral dress with blond hair and Elijah Wood wearing a white and blue floral shirt and a mustard vest close to my hair colour with a green jacket and jeans.

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 19/10/2025

Pulled off an absolute mad writing/prep day, alternating a scene of writing with a big prep job. Managed my goal of 6.5k and only have one task left now, which I'll get a good chunk in at least. Now up to the finale of the second act. Even with going away tomorrow, PG9 feels possible now! 🥰

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 18/10/2025

My writing day so far... Made it into flow state Had to leave for 3 hours to sit outside a birthday party Made it into flow state Had to take other child to dentist Didn't make it into flow state until ages in Dinner... Oh well, 1.5 hours left in this day. Let's go! 😅 #writing

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 16/10/2025

For those who don't want to wait until Alix's next adventure comes out!

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 15/10/2025

It's done! I've plotted the heck out of the second part of Ghosts of the Revolution. Finale, here we come! How I know it's the finale? Just look at this not-even-complete cast list for chapter 36. 🤪 #authorsky #writing #parisianghosts

A screenshot of Plottr from Chapter 33, which takes place in "Public" with a very long list of characters, among them several historical figures as ghosts, such as Marie Curie, Victor Hugo, Catherine de Medici and many many more.

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 15/10/2025

Finally had a bit of a plot flow - sorting all the puzzle pieces into order. Got access to 12 more chapters with only 3-4 to go after that - but I'll figure those out tomorrow. 😴

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Janna Ruth 📚 @janna-ruth.com · 15/10/2025

#wipwednesday a good, steady week despite being bogged down by too many side quests and growing pressure from the looming con week 😬 BUT I'm officially out of plot!

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WiP Wednesday 15 Oct 2025 | Janna Ruth's Story Seekers

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