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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It's almost release month, and we have some bits of news! Today through Jan. 1 is the B&N preorder sale, where you can get 25 percent off upcoming books with code PREORDER25. If you haven't preordered TRAILBREAKER in print yet, it’s your moment! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trailbreak...

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Trailbreaker|Paperback

Suspicions that a serial killer is terrorizing a pristine tourist spot draw a single mom and budding private investigator into a twisting and deepening mystery of secrets and murder.Single mom and new...

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I'm going to be just short on mom's expenses this month (as opposed to catastrophically, as I had feared. ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...

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Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Hoo, look at that! THE GUEST BOOK is "read now" for anyone on Netgalley who is into a messy, failed Wisco vegan cheesemaker with ADHD & her demisexual LA princess in deep grief on a low-rent European vacay with a treasure hunt and everlasting love www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Queers & allies of Kenosha! Chicagoland! Milwaukee! We'll be at the Southport Literary Fair this coming Saturday, & we'd love to see you!!! www.blue-house-books.com/events/32847...

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2025 Southport Literary Fair | Blue House Books

Kenosha's only full-service independent bookstore

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Prairie's on sale! This series launch has 5K happy readers, an AudioFile recommendation for the audiobook, and a sequel coming in February that's read now on Netgalley. What are you waiting for? www.amazon.com/Homemaker-Pr...

Blue background with black torn paper at top and bottom. Phone screen shows the cover of Homemaker by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare. Text reads: App date: So you do this enough, the app thing, to have a strategy? Prairie: I've been a woman since I was born. My whole existence is a strategy." Grab it on sale for $2.49!

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The good folks at Thomas & Mercer let us know that Prairie Nightingale's second adventure, TRAILBREAKER, is "read now" on Netgalley—so if you're looking for a weekend read with a twisty mystery set in picturesque Door County, Wisconsin, head on over to Netgalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

3D book cover of TRAILBREAKER by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare on a background of blue-green-painted weathered boards. Text at top reads "Four people dead. One missing. If anyone can connect the dots, it's Prairie Nightingale." Bottom text reads "Now on Netgalley"

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 18/08/2025

Oh hey, the ebook of Murder by Memory is $2.99 right now! Get your sapphic spaceship murder mystery novella while the gettin’s good! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 💙📚

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Murder by Memory

Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detectiveA mind is a terrible thing t...

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Refreshing my pinned post with all my titles in one place!

Set of 18 slides showing book covers with text against book-themed backgrounds. First slide reads "Ruthie Knox writes as Mae Marvel and with Annie Mare"

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Congratulations to Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, whose richly textured and sympathetic narration of the HOMEMAKER audiobook has been awarded an Earphones Award from @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social! We couldn't agree more with their assessment of Mia's amazing work bringing Prairie Nightingale to life. ❤️

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A little Monday-morning love for Prairie from recent readers... If you haven't started the series yet, what are you waiting for? And if you read HOMEMAKER and loved it, recommend it to a friend! :-)

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

C O V E R R E V E A L — The TV detectives are back this February 24! www.kensingtonbooks.com/978149675134... @anniemare.bsky.social

Purple blue background with 3D cover of LOVE A COMEBACK showing two women standing back to back in an outdoors setting with a pool. Quotes read "Great fun!" attributed to NYT and "A Gem" attributed to Publishers Weekly, both for BIG NAME FAN. Coming 2/24/26. Tagline at bottom reads "Who to call in Hollywood when the crime isn't an act. The TV detectives are back."

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

If you read EVERYONE I KISSED SINCE YOU GOT FAMOUS, you might remember Sam, the hot lawyer, and Robin, his girlfriend who helps Wil and Katie settle their bet about their high school teacher.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Love this — so glad you enjoyed Prairie’s first adventure!

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Anyone looking for a nonfiction rec, I enjoyed @ejeancarroll.bsky.social's account of her civil suits against Trimp. Carroll's is a vivid & distinctive voice, w/humor & insight that gains powerful momentum. It's an unusual book in such a good way. static.macmillan.com/static/smp/n...

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Not My Type

You’ve heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean’s side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle of green Chartreuse, and the bob?

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The subject line of this morning's @shelf-awareness.com newsletter is "tender, loving spies" — a nod to IF I TOLD YOU, I'D HAVE TO KISS YOU "cleverly turning many tropes of the espionage genre on their heads." Thrilled! shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.ht... @anniemare.bsky.social

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Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, June 13, 2025

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Happy release day to our sapphic spies, Yardley and KC! This book is an unapologetic love poem to hyperbole, drama-drama, costumes and accents, and most of all to learning *how* to love the woman you fell for at first sight. Happy reading, darlings! read.macmillan.com/lp/if-i-told...

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

It’s Prairie Nightingale’s book birthday today, and our feelings are big and difficult to describe, so here is a video with actual real things that alive humans said about HOMEMAKER, which is a dream come true for real @anniemare.bsky.social

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

You haven't lived until you've heard Mia Hutchinson-Shaw say "a few Coach bags" in her Wisconsin accent. Her acting is divine, and it really makes HOMEMAKER shine. @anniemare.bsky.social & I have Netgalley widgets for audio review copies, so if you're interested, hit us up

Black-to-white gradient background shows line drawing of headphones at top. Beneath, "Audio review copies available now!" in red above the audiobook cover of HOMEMAKER by Ruthie Knox & Annie Mare. Bottom text reads "message for details"

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

EEP, just three weeks until our darling Yardley Whitmer & KC Nolan hit bookshelves everywhere & y'all learn just how absolutely dumb these characters can be about love while also being crackerjack spies bit.ly/ifitoldyousmp

Photo shows 3D book cover of IF I TOLD YOU, I'D HAVE TO KISS YOU as well as a 3D globe with a white toy jet plane sitting on top of it. The text at top reads "disguises + Stockholm hideouts + supersonic planes + London galas + spice in an ambassador's closet = your ticket to summer. Depart June 10!" At bottom right, a stamped passport is open across the corner of the page, and a quote reads "Mae Marvel sends readers on a thrilling ride in this steamy spy romance" attributed to Library Journal.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Annie & I are dying over how many readers are finding and loving our new Prairie Nightingale series. This book was on submission a long time and went through so many "almosts" (& sooo many rejections) to get to this moment of having over 1,000 ratings & 4.3 / 5 stars — it's everything, everything.

Purple gray backdrop with 3D book cover of HOMEMAKER at bottom left, "1,051 ratings/reviews 4.3 out of 5 stars" on bottom right, and quotes at top that read "So, so relatable," "Fun & thought-provoking," "a cracking new sleuth" and "I couldn't put this down!"

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We put up the full epub of BREATHTAKING on our Patreon, so if you're interested in reading the love story of an unhinged, anxious city planner & a tea farmer who have been hooking up for a decade & now have to deal w/their Actual Feelings, you can join or buy for $7! www.patreon.com/posts/128774...

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Breathtaking — The Final Chapters | Annie and Ruthie and Mae

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Making the main problem of HP inspired books that they’re fanfic to published, and that it will cause legal problems with the copyright holder lol, is really something.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/05/2025

Happy book day to us!!! 🧜‍♀️ I have fallen down on every front promoting this, because life has been... life and I'm barely clinging to a cliff's edge by my broken fingernails over here. But we wrote a book, and it's coming out, and I love Aleksi, Naia, and Einar. 💓 I hope y'all love them too!

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Six days into this wild ride, & you guys really seem to be loving Prairie Nightingale! The ratings and rankings are a dream come true. @anniemare.bsky.social & I have been waiting 5 years and our whole lives for this to happen.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Couldn't be more thrilled! amzn.to/44NDTVy And if you haven't met Prairie yet, here is a small taste...

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Well, that’s a fun way to start the morning!

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The 1st book in our Prairie Nightingale mystery series, Homemaker, is available early as part of Amazon First Reads! This is it, guys. The Big Series. The magic carpet. Our hearts in a book. Scoop it up, read it real fast, and tell us what you think. We're dying over here. amzn.to/44NDTVy

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Cricket & Bee's reviews of If I Told You, I'd Have To Kiss You! read.macmillan.com/lp/if-i-told...

Picture of Ruthie and Annie together beside 3D book cover of IF I TOLD YOU, I'D HAVE TO KISS YOU. Text at top reads "Our miniature dachshunds review our 6/10 book IF I TOLD YOU, I'D HAVE TO KISS YOU. Guess which one we had to pay for the review."

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Here's Prairie, glamorous atop the pile of laundry I have to get started. My excitement for this release lives alongside the mundane chores of our daily life—and that's how it is for Prairie, too, as she learns to be a detective in between picking up prescription cat food & yet another IEP meeting.

Photograph of the book HOMEMAKER: A PRAIRIE NIGHTINGALE MYSTERY on top of a pile of laundry

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It's Independent Bookstore Week, so why not preorder some books you're looking forward to? We're teaming up with @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social and will be autographing books & giving away adorable sticker sheets with preorders of our June releases! shop.lovessweetarrow.com/maemarvelann...

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It's release day for BOLD MOVES, my second chance romance about a chess grand master adapting her memoir with the director whose heart she broke in high school. it's available for Kindle, in KU, in audio (at the 'zon and Audible), and in paperback.

the words out now over a paperback of bold moves by Emma Barry, with the same cover appearing on a phone and an ereader. the text then reads, "Available in KU, ebook, audio, and paperback." there a silhouettes of a king and queen from a chess set.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We are thrilled to announce our preorder collab w/Love's Sweet Arrow romance bookstore! There will be signed books, custom sticker sheets & bookmarks, & an in-store event 6/8 w/Becca Grischow! The preorder is live now, so put your clicky finger to work!! shop.lovessweetarrow.com/maemarvelann...

Blazingly hot author Ruthie Knox holds copies of COSMIC LOVE AT THE MULTIVERSE HAIR SALON and IF I TOLD YOU, I'D HAVE TO KISS YOU

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 17/04/2025

Autistic people don't need to contribute to society to have value as humans. Disabled people don't need to contribute to society to have value as humans. People, generally, don't need to contribute to society to have value as humans. We are valuable just by being human.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Mike & Taylor have been hooking up for ten years and have never talked about their feelings. They are the dumbest dumdums of any romance I've ever written, and I love them BREATHTAKING — www.patreon.com/c/AnnieandRu...

header-style image reads "Breathtaking: Now on Patreon," with an image of a farmer on the left side, grassy fields in the middle, and a woman with red hair in a cozy sweater on the right.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I have been listening to @kimberlylemming.bsky.social's latest on audiobook & Toto is giving me serious LION from Steven Universe vibes that make me adore him

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/04/2025

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/04/2025

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Feeling bleak over here today & will accept cheering up in the form of Patreon follows. There's a free & paid tier, & it delights us when someone joins. We could use a bit of delight in this neck of the woods. Tax day + the collapse of democracy is a lot. www.patreon.com/AnnieandRuth...

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Community, Insider News, First Looks, Patreon-Only Books/Stories

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Look at this fun teaser! Our sapphic spies are coming soon!!!!! @anniemare.bsky.social

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

To celebrate @anniemare.bsky.social & me turning in our last big revision of several in a row, we put 2 chaps of BREATHTAKING up on Patreon! Join our paid tier to read this spicy low-key het romance w/an unhinged FMC and a cinnamon roll Wisconsin farmer MMC. www.patreon.com/c/AnnieandRu...

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Prairie got a nice Publisher's Weekly review calling her "lovably eccentric," which is what you call a woman who talked her ex into forming an LLC & paying her a salary to run their co-parenting household so she never has to do unpaid emotional labor ever again. We just call her our favorite.

Red and black quote card that reads "Prairie is a lovably eccentric protagonist, and her first adventure goes down easy. Cozy fans will be satisfied." —Publishers Weekly

Marbled blue background with a 3D book cover of HOMEMAKER: A Prairie Nightingale Mystery by Ruthie Knox & Annie Mare. Reads "Domestic Life Can Be a Crime." Digital ARCs now available, DM to request

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A li'l explainer with the specific appeals of BIG NAME FAN to help our readers find us! www.kensingtonbooks.com/978149675133...

3D book cover of big name fan with arrows to appeals - "cozy Hollywood mystery braided with sapphic reunion light romance," "warm and thinky with lots of rabbit holes," "the NY Times called it 'great fun,'" "character-driven with friends and family dynamics providing insight to the mains," "focus on the clues from multiple sources, interviews, puzzles, victim's humanity, and human dynamics of mystery versus graphic details," "first in a series featuring I-played-a-detective-on-TV sleuths," "behind-the-scenes details of a hit detective procedural TV show," "love letter to fandoms and readers who like to deep dive into fandom drama," "cozy Hollywood mystery braided with sapphic reunion light romance"

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If you're looking for a diversion, may I suggest our cozy sapphic second-chance mystery? The ebook is on sale, the NYT called it "great fun!" AND Bex and Sam prove that being a TV detective is *more or less the same thing* as being a real-life detective. Excerpt at www.patreon.com/AnnieandRuth...

The 3D book cover for BIG NAME FAN is incorporated in an image styled as a playing card, with the two characters from the book as the Queen of Hearts.

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Get the novel Publishers Weekly called a "low-heat love letter to the queer fanfic community" & Bookpage called "a pitch-perfect blend of mystery, romance, and Hollywood drama" at a bargain price this week! @anniemare.bsky.social

3D book cover of BIG NAME FAN with headline "ebook price drop" and a badge showing price of 5.99

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Ruthie Knox / Mae Marvel @ruthieknox.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

She calls him "Festival Guy" to her friends. Taylor & Mike have been hooking up at the same music festival every year for a decade, but it's time to call it quits. Probably they haven't caught feelings. Join our Patreon to read along! www.patreon.com/AnnieandRuth...

Magenta=toned image of a woman in a sun hat. Dialogue bubble reads "I am Taylor Madigan, Ruthie & Annie's most unhinged character."* Heading text says "Breathtaking chapter 3 now live on patreon." *tbh more like 'one of'

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