Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier

Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier

@armbernier.bsky.social

Writing Caribbean joy…and mystery…one story at a time! 🇻🇮👩🏾‍💻🙌🏾🤩 www.ashleyruthbernier.com

304 Followers 154 Following 43 Posts Joined Dec 2024
3 months ago
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The Bush Tea Murder NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review.

Culinary journalist Naomi Sinclair is cooking up a maelstrom of trouble upon her return to the blue waters of her native Saint Thomas in THE BUSH TEA MURDER by @armbernier.bsky.social.

#ewgc #libraryreads

Request on Netgalley: https://loom.ly/O_KPybI

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4 months ago
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Time to spill the tea! Meet the cover of my debut novel-length work, The Bush Tea Murder, coming from Crooked Lane Books in April 2026!
Want to win one of 5 physical galleys of the book? Enter at Goodreads between now and 11/16: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

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4 months ago
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I’ve been MIA for a while, but I’m ready to spill some big news this week! Stay tuned…😉🤫✍🏾

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8 months ago
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Happy VI Emancipation Day! 🇻🇮✊🏾

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9 months ago

Thank you so much, @stschorey.bsky.social!!! It was so lovely to catch up with you today!!!

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9 months ago

Thank you so much, @caseystegman.com!!! Great catching up with you today!

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9 months ago
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Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, Author What's New?

If you’re a Macavity voter and enjoy your (fictional!) murders with a side of 🇻🇮soca and mas, I’d be honored if you’d consider “Murder Can’t Stop de Carnival” (EQMM Jul/Aug ‘24)! Read here free for a limited time: ashleyruthbernier.com/blank

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10 months ago
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@rhppress.bsky.social presents: Writing Short Crime Fiction That Stands Out. Join instructor @steveweddle.bsky.social (Author of THE COUNTY LINE) for an online course May 10-24. Learn how to craft stories that grab editors and readers alike. More info: bit.ly/3Y7LTwy

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11 months ago

You’re going to want to get your hands on this one early—everything he writes is 🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩🤩

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11 months ago

Here we go! Details below 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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11 months ago
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I've got a Stack. How about you? victordeanda.substack.com/p/how-you-li...

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1 year ago

Set of pure 🤡🤡🤡🤡

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1 year ago

Submissions opportunity 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
…important topic AND an awesome guest editor? Check this OUT!

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1 year ago
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January News from the Short Mystery Fiction Society About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.

shortmystery.blogspot.com/2025/02/janu...

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1 year ago

🤩🤩 What a great day when this awesome collection is out in the world! Yes, my story “A Li’l Something Extra” is in here, but there are 11 other hard hitting pieces included, and you’ll enjoy them all!

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1 year ago
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Stone's Throw 2024 annual anthology — Rock and a Hard Place Press A year's worth of the hardest hitting noir.

NEW BOOK TIME -- Our print edition of 2024's Stone's Throw Stories is now available, wherever you purchase your books. Featuring a year's worth of the hardest hitting noir around. www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...

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1 year ago

All AWESOME stories!!! 🤩 Thanks for posting!

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1 year ago

I enjoyed chatting with my fellow newbies and the OG editors 😎 at @rhppress.bsky.social earlier this week! Listen in for a great conversation👇🏾

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1 year ago

A ❄️🌨️SNOW DAY❄️🌨️ means a WRITING day!
…after playing in the snow, that is. ☃️

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1 year ago

This sounds amazing! I write about crimes and 🇻🇮#US Virgin Islands cuisine!

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1 year ago

My black cat would absolutely say this!🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

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1 year ago

Final lines. I think they’re just as important as beginnings. Drop a comment, #authorfriends… what do you think you do really well?

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1 year ago

I haven’t heard about that one, but it sounds like it should be on my radar!

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1 year ago

Thank you Casey! Are you going this year?

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1 year ago
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If you’re heading to Malice Domestic, I’d be honored if you’d consider my short story, Afterglow, on your Agatha ballots! 🇻🇮🌅🤫🍹

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1 year ago
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ST3.1 | "Tempting Destiny" — Rock and a Hard Place Press Sometimes, rules are there for a reason, and grandpa's rules mean the difference between realizing your destiny, or getting fucked by fate . . .

Our latest Stone’s Throw story is up and available, and you don’t want to miss it. This one mixes classic noir tropes with a very modern character out to get hers. Read “Tempting Destinee” by Lisa Robertson, now, for free, at Stone’s Throw!
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/stones-throw...

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1 year ago

A new year brings new opportunities!

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1 year ago

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Same!!!🤣

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1 year ago
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I doubled my author bookshelf this year! 🤩 Here’s to lots more great stories and mayhem on the page in 2025. 🥂

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1 year ago
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Just dropping this li’l reminder right here…

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