Gin Phillips

We're less than three weeks away RUBY FALLS hitting the shelves of a bookstore near you...and I may also be landing at a bookstore near you!

I understand that it's awards nominating season. WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is eligible for all sorts of science fiction, spec fic, and literary things. It'd be neat if you read it, liked it, and nominated.

But there are *hugely* important things to vote on soon. So. This feels very 🤷‍♂️

’Deported for that?’: Football referee forced to leave Alabama for Mexico Fonzie had to leave behind his fiancée and 18-month-old son in rural Alabama.

@johnarchibald.bsky.social ’s latest on one Alabama man’s deportation, plus numbers I haven’t seen on ICE’s impact in Alabama. A must-read.

“18% of Alabama's 3,300 ICE detainees had criminal convictions in 2025. Of those, about a quarter are jailed for traffic offenses.”

www.al.com/news/2026/01...

Another starred review for RUBY FALLS! Very grateful to Booklist.❤️

I am a huge fan of the brilliant @ginphillips.bsky.social Look what arrives in bookstores on March 4!

Bookshelf: 5 Southern novels we can’t wait to read in 2026 Explore five must-read Southern novels for 2026, featuring stories of history, mystery and identity.

RUBY FALLS gets a shout-out in this exciting list of new reads coming out this year! @ginphillips.bsky.social

https://www.ajc.com/arts-entertainment/2025/12/bookshelf-5-southern-novels-we-cant-wait-to-read-in-2026/

Seriously, Merriam-Webster?! Went looking for synonyms because I hate "middle-aged" and then things got so much worse.

Thanks, Kris!

RUBY FALLS | Kirkus Reviews In 1932, a young woman gets entangled in a gruesome murder mystery when a publicity stunt in a deep underground cave goes dangerously awry.

"A hyper-immersive novel that fearlessly explores the darkest, most primal corners of the human heart."

RUBY FALLS gets another starred review, this time from Kirkus!💎 @ginphillips.bsky.social
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gin-phillips/ruby-falls-2/

Starred review from Kirkus!! Very excited, especially about the line "brilliantly brooding imagination." I have never been called "brooding" in my life, so it's a fun new thing.

Glad you loved it! And thank you--that's a high compliment.

Thrilled that RUBY FALLS got a STARRED review in Publishers Weekly! (And delighted by the shout-out to The Frozen River, which I loved.) Side note: I am editing out a big fat spoiler in the review.

On shelves March 3, 2026. 😊

So cool!

It's true! I'm going to Tempe to talk about the novel, utopia-dystopias, and Asimov's mutton chops (more gazing at them, really). Can't be there in person? Attending online should still let you cackle at the slide on "homogeneity."

I reviewed #RubyFalls by @ginphillips.bsky.social on Goodreads, B&N and NetGalley. Please share.

Aw, thanks, Diana!

The Bear Necessities: C.B. Bernard talks to Shots Magazine Book reviewers can tell you how exciting it is to discover a novel that is ‘different’, that engages the mind and makes one contemplate, p...

Fun interview with Ali Karim for Shots magazine. We had a wide ranging conversation in which I out myself as a weirdo and shill for @pazsays.bsky.social and @ginphillips.bsky.social, because their books are amazing. Check it out at wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

@ginphillips.bsky.social

It was baffling.

Nothing gets you closer to your editor and fellow writers than an inexplicably small Uber XL. This photo doesn't fully capture the impossibility of knees in a back-backseat. #bouchercon

Thanks, Kelly!!

COVER REVEAL! Here's RUBY FALLS, coming 3/3! @atlanticcrime.bsky.social

One body. Five suspects.Total darkness.

Set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression, RUBY FALLS is a twist on the locked-room mystery, as well as an exploration of loss and what it means to start over.

Right back at you!!!

Such a great night! Started reading the poems over coffee this morning and they are an ideal way to launch the day.

May you one day have a friend with a new book that gives you the chance to make a tongue bouquet. (Fake tongues. Don't panic. Also tulips.) Congrats to @alinaetc.bsky.social on her beautiful book of poems that's now out in the world!

As a kid, I always asked my grandmother to make me cream of wheat for breakfast when I spent the night. I love the memory of her at the counter swirling honey into the bowl and I love that even if my son’s childhood has been plenty different from my own, here I am, swirling honey into his bowl.

This is one of my favorite kinds of writing days. I might not write a word, but I'll walk through the neighborhood for a few hours while I move the pieces of my next novel around in my head. (This is also the dogs' favorite kind of writing day.)

So sad. And infuriating.

Archibald: UAB fears Trump reprisals, kills scholarships for Black med students "They're just another parrot parroting the same misguided racial nonsense and tropes."

UAB has such power in Alabama--they have a chance in this time and place to make a compelling argument for doing the right thing. They're choosing to do the opposite.

www.al.com/news/2025/04...

It's just so much fun to say!