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Darian Rudderham

@darianrudderham.bsky.social

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we are stardust and stories 💜✨🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 I write books sometimes MFA, UKC '27 Intern at The Booker Albert Literary Agency Free Palestine 🍉 Opinions are my own (she/they) header: nikespera.png on Instagram

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Nov 15

💀 an agent’s guide to A CONSIDERATION OF DEATH 💀

This book is for reader’s who love the slowest of slow burns and is best enjoyed with Hozier’s Unreal, Unearth playing in the background.

art on slide three by nikespera.png on 📸

The background is Camille Corot’s printing of Orpheus and Eurydice leaving the underworld. Over it is a piece of ripped paper that says “an agents guide to A CONSIDERATION OF DEATH by Darian Rudderham”

With the same painting as the background, the title of this slide is labelled “the pitch.” Below are the covers of three books: VICIOUS by V.E. Schwab, NINTH HOUSE by Leigh Bardugo, and THE ATLAS SIX by Olivie Blake. The pitch reads “a group of university students find themselves entangled in an experiment that demands their blood.”

A collection of character images: a short brown haired woman, a taller brown haired man, a relatively tall blonde woman, a shorter pink haired woman, a tall indigenous man with dark hair, and a tall Pakistani man with dark hair. The trope tags list: friends to almost lovers, ancient monsters, neuroscience based magic system, aspec rep, unapologetically queer, mythology and ethics, complicated family dynamics, dark academia, ensemble cast, near death experiences

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 20h

This week two clients got “the call” and we’re ending the week wrangling up their contracts.

I know publishing feels harder than ever lately, but good things are still happening, and great books are still being scooped up.

Hang in there. ❤️

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 1d

every time I submit another job application and don’t get a call or e-mail, a piece of me dies I think

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 2d

we're still shipping all over Canada for only $5 and we now have a tugboat to help us spread the word! how do we do it? that's really none of your business

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 2d

THE ATLAS SIX meets NINTH HOUSE

A summer research cohort turns into a horrifying experiment when six students find documents about a secret society's attempts to conquer death--and the beast they found on the other side.

#questpit #w #a #sff

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 2d

GIDEON THE NINTH x THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH

Desperate to save a rotting city, a woman tasked with caring for a corpse and the only god remaining of an ancient pantheon must find what is causing the destruction.

#questpit #w #a #sff

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 10d

Life update!
I'm now interning with Haley Warrington at The Booker Albert Literary Agency! I'm so so excited to start learning more about the agenting process and supporting the authors.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 15d

The expansion of a #NovaScotia program is set to be good news for book lovers.

Residents can receive $10 off books written or published by Nova Scotians starting this Friday.

A total of 4,000 vouchers will be available until Feb. 28, 2026.

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Nova Scotians to receive $10 book vouchers under provincial program

The expansion of a Nova Scotia program is set to be good news for book lovers.

www.ctvnews.ca

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 20d

if you're in Alberta and you want your flu and covid shot in 2026 - yes you read that correctly - you have to preorder them right now. So here's the link. go do that. Just in case none of those people get removed from power by then.

please repost this, as the province seems bent on killing us.

bookvaccine.alberta.ca

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · 23d

Not a lot of posting here because I recently lost my job and am elbow deep in applying for new positions 🥲 the lack of publishing jobs in NS/remote in Canada is so disheartening y'all

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Sep 2

#WritingCommunity! I would love to connect with editors, agents, and other writers over on LinkedIn. Add me or drop a link to your profile below: www.linkedin.com/in/drudderham/

www.linkedin.com

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · Aug 15

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

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Bex @wordofgreen.bsky.social · Aug 15

One thing I will never shut up about is libraries. Genuinely our finest achievement as a civilization. Go check something out for me this week and contribute to third spaces and communal joy in your neighborhood while also enjoying some sweet artistic endeavors made by real humans like you!

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Mannie Quinn & The Mighty Hornets @manniequinn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Food for thought.
I've thought about it.
Fuck Israel.

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Aug 9

I hate beta-reading books I’d acquire as an agent if I were one… like… I’d say gimme but I can’t yet!!!

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Aug 7

the problem with getting better at editing is that you always want to edit a book you're supposed to be ignoring for the sake of writing a different one

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Aug 6

I’d love to hide in a cabin in the woods and write for a week straight 👊🏻😔 but I have to contribute to capitalism instead

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Jul 30

The best part about having been beta reading for so many years now on my road to becoming a lit agent is that I can see how much stronger my critique and feedback have gotten over time. If you feel like you aren't giving great feedback yet: keep working on it!

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · Jul 11

Labubu? More like Labubuild that synopsis.

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Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Jul 11

queen of always being willing to make changes ig 😬

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Jul 11

I have two subs out and I just thought of a GREAT way to change this manuscript so if you excuse me I'll be sobbing in the corner

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Jul 4

There’s nothing like a song coming out and knowing it fits a book you’re supposed to be leaving alone

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Jun 30

Books I bought during my summer residency for my MFA ✨

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Jun 30

(I'm also looking for beta reading opportunities so if you see me snooping around...)

Darian Rudderham @darianrudderham.bsky.social · Jun 30

The reality is that, as a disabled person not living in a major city, publishing opportunities are often few and far between--I'd love to help be the change and start my journey to helping other disabled publishing hopefuls find their way into this industry.