Luna Westish

Meet Me at the Ruins

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Well, this is cool! Meet Me at the Ruins is a winner in the Literary Fiction category for the 2026 @regalsummitbookaward! Congrats to all of the winners! A year into my author journey, reviews from readers are still my favorite part of the publishing process. What's your favorite thing someone said in a review about your work? Hey, that's My Face! Just here to tell you I published a brutally honest guide(ish) to writing, querying, and self publishing. Comment below or DM me for the link, or find it on Medium.com on my "real me" profile, @ allisonbishins. I hope that if it's helpful, you'll share it with your writer friends! I wrote a long, very honest sort-of guide to self publishing, walking through the many, many steps it took to get Meet Me at the Ruins out into the world. I'm waiting to see if it's accepted into a publication on Medium, and plan to publish next week if it's not. Comment below if you're not a Medium member and you'd like the free friend link when it's published! I can't believe it's been a whole year since Meet Me at the Ruins was published! Thank you to everyone who has read it, shared a post, reviewed the book, had me on as a podcast guest, or supported in some other way. Being an author is not for the faint of heart, and I look forward to my next bookish adventure! Mini review! This is not a book I would normally pick up (I don't typically read romance novels), but I'm so glad I did! I literally Googled "queer romance" because I had an upcoming podcast that wanted to compare Meet Me at the Ruins to a romance novel with a more standard romance structure*, and I'm reading all things queer this year. This story was so comforting and validating, as a non-binary person who spent years trying to sort out and define my gender (DM me if you'd like to read a personal essay about that process), and as an anxious/neurodivergent/socially awkward person. As a survivor of religious trauma, the exploration of anti-queer Mormonism was hard for me, but it made sense in the story. I really enjoyed this book and the way @jakewhosasillygoose explored Zoe's inner world. I wanted an easy breezy queer romance but instead, I got a story that not only mirrored many of my life experiences, but reminded me of my own, sometimes ruminating, writing. I hit a wall recently, suddenly having zero desire to interact with social media. I try really hard to honor the ups and downs of interaction and creativity. What's been so interesting in this pause is that I've actually been working a lot and writing a bit (not my novel, but some treatments, outlines, and short stories, as a new practice.) I was largely offline while writing my first novel as well, so I'm wondering if there's an inverse relationship between my creativity and my capacity for online interaction. I'm still here and posting periodically, but feel free to DM or tag me in a post you'd like me to share. I accidentally gave away all of my author copies last year, and had to order some more. So I took the opportunity to do a little photo shoot! I've updated my website, so you can now order paperbacks directly from @ingramsparkbooks, with a discount (making it much cheaper than Amazon!) It's National Library Week and I'm excited to share this list of libraries that have Meet Me at the Ruins! I'm keeping a running list on my website, so if your library has it, please let me know! The cool thing is, hundreds of libraries have Meet Me at the Ruins as an ebook through @hoopladigital, and it's easy to request a copy through @libby.app (search the book then click the "notify me" tag.)

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I’m Luna*

* Luna Westish is my pen name for fiction writing, as I write non-fiction elsewhere. I hope you’ll explore this website and reach out if you have any questions for me!

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