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Ruth Kramer
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Author, graphic designer, member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association (UK)
Debut novel “Things We Do for Love and Science” ❤️📖🧬.
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Ruth Kramer @ruthkramer.bsky.social · Jul 6
Great news! “Things We Do for Love & Science” is featured on this week’s romance roundup by Liz Donatelly and Libby Kay 🎉🎊. As a great fan of their “Reader Seeks Romance” podcast I’m absolutely thrilled 😀 #romancelandia #booksky

Time stamp: 8:28 to 10:38
youtu.be/Uf0Fc4hiE1k?...
A Very Special Episode| Romance Roundup #65 #romancebooks
YouTube video by Reader Seeks Romance
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Reposted by Ruth Kramer
carolecadwalla.bsky.social
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
pressgazette.co.uk Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · Sep 26
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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jennikeer.bsky.social
Now available to request on #NetGalley!!!!

#bookbloggers #gothicread #romance #historical #spiritualists
Purple cover of The Peculiar Incident at Thistlewick House showing an isolated house on the coast and a cloaked woman with a lantern. The border incorporates bones, skulls and thistles
August 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Wichtiges Signal aus Brüssel: Während die neuen EU-Digitalgesetze zuletzt immer wieder auf Basis falscher Behauptungen infrage gestellt wurden, bekennt sich EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen in ihrer Rede zur Lage der Union klar zur Regulierung von Big Tech: www.politico.eu/article/von-...
Von der Leyen stands by EU tech rules amid Trump threats
“I want to be crystal clear on one point: whether on environmental or digital regulation, we set our own standards, we set our own regulations,” says EU Commission chief.
www.politico.eu
September 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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beate251.bsky.social
I just finished @jennikeer.bsky.social's The Peculiar Incident at Thistlewick House and I'm blown away. If you loved The Ravenswood Witch, you will love this! Out 11 October.

Here's my review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8566...

#booksky 💙💃🏼
Cover of The Peculiar Incident at Thistlewick House by Jenni Keer
September 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
It looks glorious! 📖💫
rflong.bsky.social Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne @rflong.bsky.social · Sep 9
The Book of Gold is out today in hardback and trade paperback in North America. A desperate thief. A magical book. A heist for the ages. What's it all about? Find out below

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-book-o...

(And the ebook is still reduced)
#booksky💙📚 #fantasyromance @hodderscape.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Interesting talk by Leigh Bardugo. Makes me want to face my discomfort while writing book 2 straight away 😉

#booksky #writingcommunity #writingmotivation

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The art of discomfort | Leigh Bardugo | TEDxUCDavis
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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September 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
I‘m featured on @karenking.bsky.social ‘s wonderful blog!
If you want to find out about my writing journey, here’s the link:

karenkingauthor.com/2025/09/05/m...

#booksky #romancelandia

Thank you, Karen 😊
My Writing Journey by Ruth Kramer
My guest today is debut romance author Ruth Kramer. Ruth is going to talk to us about her writing journey and her new book. So grab yourself a cuppa, get cosy and let’s get chatting to Ruth. Bio: R…
karenkingauthor.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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rrcaraclayton.bsky.social
💐Thrilled to hand over my blog to
@ros_rendle and her character in new series
📢If you love novels by Alison Weir, Elizabeth Chadwick, Conn Iggulden and Philippa Gregory, then you’re in for a treat. jessiecahalin.com/chatting-wit... … #histfic #NewRelease #mustread @saperebooks.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Many thanks to all you lovely people who voted for my cover! I made it into the second round and I’d love your vote again 🙂 for a chance to meet to round number three.

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#romancelandia #booksky
Vote for Things We Do for Love and Science in Book Cover Competition August
Vote for Things We Do for Love and Science, and help Ruth Kramer to win the cover of the month competition August - allauthor
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August 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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casparhenderson.bsky.social
"Chatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them. Writing is something else: a creative act,embodied thinking...” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Parrot in the Machine | James Gleick
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.
www.nybooks.com
August 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I’d love your vote for my novel in this cover contest 🙂 (if you feel like it 😉)

allauthor.com/cover-of-the...

#booksky #romancelandia
Vote for Things We Do for Love and Science in Book Cover Competition August
Vote for Things We Do for Love and Science, and help Ruth Kramer to win the cover of the month competition August - allauthor
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August 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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The hardback version of my novel “Things We Do for Love & Science” has arrived ❤️📖🧬

#unboxing #romancelandia #booksky
Image of books in a box
July 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
Great news! “Things We Do for Love & Science” is featured on this week’s romance roundup by Liz Donatelly and Libby Kay 🎉🎊. As a great fan of their “Reader Seeks Romance” podcast I’m absolutely thrilled 😀 #romancelandia #booksky

Time stamp: 8:28 to 10:38
youtu.be/Uf0Fc4hiE1k?...
A Very Special Episode| Romance Roundup #65 #romancebooks
YouTube video by Reader Seeks Romance
youtu.be
July 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
Many thanks to fellow author @linahansenauthor.bsky.social for this lovely quote from her review of “Things We Do for Love & Science”
“I enjoyed this book. It’s a well-written and successful combo of much-liked tropes and plot lines, seen through a modern lense.”
June 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
Currently obsessed with this song:
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Pentangle-wondrous love
Pentangle - Wondrous Love (Journey Into Love, 6th June 1971)
YouTube video by Pentangle
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June 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Many thanks to fellow romance author Flora Dunn for this lovely quote from her review of my debut “Things We Do for Love and Science”
#booksky #romancelandia
This feel-good debut from author Ruth Kramer offers an original, surprising storyline, with some great twists. The deeply emotional, heart-warming story is all you could hope for from an English Country House Romance.
May 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
Got a book voucher, spent it. 🙂

The River has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com
Hero by Katie Buckley
When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté

#booksky
Image of the three books mentioned.
May 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
Happy publication day, @leoniemack.bsky.social !
This sounds like a fabulous read!

#booksky #romancelandia
Book cover of “An Italian Wedding Adventure” by Leonie Mack
May 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
A great opportunity for you lovely writers out there who live in the US, UK, Canada or Australia. (Sadly not for me 😔)

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

#booksky
New book prize to award aspiring writer £75,000 for first three pages of novel
The Next Big Story competition, run by writing school The Novelry, is encouraging entries from would-be authors ‘historically overlooked by the publishing industry’
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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madalymorgan.bsky.social
Best-selling novel, Foxden Acres, by Madalyn Morgan, with 1.2 million pages read, is only 99p in the UK

Meet Margot, Claire, and Ena in Bess Dudley's gripping, heartbreaking love story❤️
#WW2 #RAF #landgirls

#Kindle #KindleUnlimited #paperback #audiobook ://geni.us/23-pp-two-am
May 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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bettinahuntauthor.bsky.social
🎶 He gave up fame. She gave up on love.
A singing app changed everything.

If you love:

✨ Secret identity romance
🎤 Ex-celebs in hiding
📱 Falling for someone online
💕 The Flatshare + You’ve Got Mail vibes

Then this one’s for you.

Mybook.to/OurSongRomCom

#booksky
April 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Copper beech in the evening sunshine.
Copper beech in the evening sunshine.
April 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
Congratulations, Seána! Wonderful news 🎊🎉 @seanatinley.bsky.social
#booksky
bookbrunch.bsky.social BookBrunch @bookbrunch.bsky.social · Apr 25
Hodder has signed two sagas by Romantic Novelists Association chair Seána Tinley, starting with The Irish Midwife

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... (£)
April 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
More info about the finalists of the Joan Hessayon Award 2025 (including me 🙂)

romanticnovelistsassociation.org/news/finalis...

#booksky #romancelandia
@romanticnovelists.bsky.social
Finalists: The Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers 2025 - Romantic Novelists' Association
For stories about the here and now, where romance forms a substantive part of the story; any novel set predominantly in the last fifty years.
romanticnovelistsassociation.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
ruthkramer.bsky.social
‘Ultimately “Move fast and break things” means breaking other people’s things.’
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social summed it up perfectly.
mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · Apr 3
Today's column, on the ChatGPT Ghibli app. The prayer of every creative should be, 'Please don't let tech-bros love the things I make":
A column on how all tech-bros kill the things they love.
April 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM