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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers)

@robynryle.bsky.social
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Writer. Sociologist. SEX OF THE MIDWEST, my linked short stories, coming from Galiot Press in Fall 2025. More writing at robynryle.substack.com

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Eva Langston @evalangston.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Happy pub day to @robynryle.bsky.social! Be sure to buy her new book and listen to her episode on The Long Road to Publishing! shows.acast.com/the-long-roa... #writing #publishing
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Is your small town the center of the universe? For @robynryle.bsky.social, the answer is yes.
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Is My Small Town the Center of the Universe?
Sometimes I tell people that Madison—the small town in southern Indiana where I live—is clearly the center of the universe. Mostly, I’m joking. Everyone has had that experience of being halfway acr…
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Eva Langston @evalangston.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I hit two exciting milestones! 🥳 Find out what they are in my latest #Substack newsletter. 
Plus the latest episode of The Long Road to Publishing with guest @robynryle.bsky.social. And TONS of #writing links and resources! evalangston.substack.com/p/she-though... #writingcommunity
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She Thought It'd Never Get Published, But THEN...
I hit two exciting milestones, plus TONS of writing links and resources!
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Eva Langston @evalangston.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
@robynryle.bsky.social has pivoted many times in her career, publishing in multiple genres and by multiple methods. Her novel-in-stories, Sex of the Midwest, is being published by @galiotpress.bsky.social. Get the story on The Long Road to Publishing #writingpodcast shows.acast.com/the-long-roa...
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I’d really like to have a mid-life crisis but I’m not sure I can afford it.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The amount of nature drama in this tiny backyard on an average day is fairly astounding, if you’re paying attention. Trying to do a better job paying attention.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I just…who did you think Bruce Springsteen was?
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I’ve invented a new cocktail—a gin and tonic with a splash of Aperol. Possible names: The 2nd Street; The Gilly (for the cat); Sex of the Midwest (for my book). P.S. I know this drink probably already exists and I do not care.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I can tell Bluesky is going to be just like Twitter because I have no idea what you’re all talking about.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
When an agent asks for the first ten pages but it’s nonfiction, what are the first ten pages? First ten pages of a sample chapter? First ten pages of the book proposal, but which part? #publishing #writingcommunity
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.
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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
A buzzword I hate is how data is meant to provide "decision support," which in practice means that the data analyst nerds (it me) are pressured to massage their data until it supports whatever decision the highest-paid person in the room already wanted to make in the first place.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I had some things to say about the Jodi Picoult thing—namely that traditional publishing isn’t a meritocracy. It excludes a lot of people, especially marginalized folks. So that “easy way out” is the only option for a lot of writers. robynryle.substack.com/p/okay-lets-...
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Okay, let's talk about the Jodi Picoult thing
And that the "easy way out" is sometimes the only way out
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
My new tattoo has reached the scabby phase and I want my husband to touch it because I find it sort of fascinating and he won’t and, I don’t know, I might have married the wrong person.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
I just want to hang out at my favorite coffee shop on gray, cold days, writing and listening to Evermore over and over again. Is that too much to ask?
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Thinking about rituals this week and whether or not my tattoos give me super-powers. Check it out and maybe subscribe while you’re there. robynryle.substack.com/p/yes-my-tat...
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Yes, my tattoos give me super-powers
On rituals and their purposes
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Being an academic in 2023, the satire writes itself.
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scoochatitch @scoochatitch.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
LUCILLE CLIFTON, everybody
why some people be mad at me sometimes

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories
and i keep on remembering mine.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
A student just e-mailed to say he hoped my surgery went well (had to get a tooth removed and cancel a day of classes) and my heart is sort of bursting. What good, sweet kids I teach.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/10/2023
Hughes Van Ellis, one of three known remaining survivors of the massacre in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, died on Monday. He was 102.
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Hughes Van Ellis, Tulsa Massacre Survivor, Dies at 102
Mr. Ellis was one of three known remaining survivors of the massacre, in which a white mob burned down the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla., killing as many as 300 Black residents.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
So true.
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Robyn Ryle (she/her/hers) @robynryle.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
My favorite tour in my town is the loft tour, where you get to go see the very, very weird upstairs spaces above all the businesses. Small sample of the strange stuff up there. #madisonindiana
Long windows looking out onto the streetJeff in the middle of a weird misshapen archAn antique sewing machine in a room with iron barsMan-paned window with courthouse outside
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