Ruby Jones

I write weird fiction. Sexy weird fiction.

SF/F/H erotic romance and erotica.

🤖 Robots 🤯 Mind control 🐙 Tentacles 🔞

NB with ME/CFS.

https://patreon.com/rubyjones
https://tumblr.com/rubyjones
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/RubyJones6742
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Ruby-Jones/author/B08LCGKQPC
Not keen on DMs
#smut #writing #sff #romance

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2026-05-03 14:38:28 UTC

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I think you misunderstand me. I am an experienced writer and editor. I have worked for and with many publishers and have no issue with adapting my work to whatever the house style dictates.
But now I am self-publishing. I am the one who decides what language to use. And I see advantages to both sides.

2026-05-03 14:25:57 UTC

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>But now it's my own writing, and I am British, but my book is set in America. What do?
Obviously, all dialogue should use the words a character would use. An American calling you an 'ass' means an arse, and will call you an 'asshole', and not an 'arsehole'. But what about in the description. I've been inclined to follow what feels like a rational approach: I am writing the wider story in British English, and when a character speaks I am quoting them, so they use American words. And where>

2026-05-03 14:22:42 UTC

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>it's something I struggle with. Different publications I have worked for as an editor handled it different ways. The OUP imprint followed the dictates of the Oxford Manual of Style - British spellings. The international fiction publisher used whatever version of English the writer worked in, and if they mixed it up, you made it consistent.
As a freelancer, I followed that angle. It was interesting to discover the varieties of English - Canadian and Australian English is different again.>

2026-05-03 14:18:23 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub 3 May:
Do you write your works localised to the setting or your background?
I think this may be aiming at the somewhat rambling question I submitted, which was about whether you localise the spelling and words you use to the setting. For example: Synthetic Agency is set in the US, but I am a British writer. What to do when a character is referring to their 'trousers' aka 'pants' (which means something different and much funnier in British English).
I submitted this q as>

2026-04-19 18:10:45 UTC

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Yes, indeed we are.
I've already been over a few times why a plugin is not going to work for me. I think this is one where I need you to trust that I know what I'm talking about.

2026-04-19 18:01:20 UTC

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>Which leaves you reliant on companies that will do it for you, and the ones that used to do so have got much, much stricter about what they will allow (especially from indies), because they don't want to be sued and because credit card companies have caved to neo-puritan pressure groups. It's bleak.
One of my books I can only, currently, publish through D2D to Smashwords. And it's my most popular work 🤷‍♀️

2026-04-19 17:58:14 UTC

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It gives you control, but much, much bigger responsibility. I'm fully familiar with WP and its plugins - my point is that they are highly likely to have T&Cs that exclude adult content. The WordPress.com website does.
Age verification is specifically the sticking point. I do not have the resources (mental, financial, technical) to securely perform age verification myself, and it's not legal to sell adult content without age verification anymore.>

2026-04-19 17:45:07 UTC

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Thanks for sharing - I fear this would not work for adult content; with the age verification now required, self-hosting is basically a non-starter. I need a big company to handle that for me, and outside the likes of D2D, Amazon, or Patreon, most of them won't anymore. I suspect the plugins you use would cite morality clauses about my tentacle sex stories 🙁

2026-04-12 08:19:25 UTC

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RE: https://mograph.social/@dilmandila/116390725832539294
More importantly, why isn't this on *my* timeline.
#note16yv…jnat

2026-04-08 12:05:02 UTC

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Love that cover!

2026-03-30 18:24:50 UTC

Be supportive to your friendly neighbourhood author. Times are a real bummer.

2026-03-15 16:28:13 UTC

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You have a very strange attitude. Explaining AO3 like no one here has heard of it. Saying original fiction is stealing??
I don't know where this aggressive defence of fanfiction is coming from. I talked about my love of fanfic in another thread of this conversation. It's bizarre to make out like you can't love both original fiction and fanfiction.
Do you just search on the word 'fanfic' and go on the attack? Really weird. Goodby, Cy.

2026-03-15 07:25:07 UTC

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The thing is, there is more free fiction and art online than a person could ever need. I've actually found it hard to pull myself away from the safe, comforting arms of fanfiction, which gives me exactly what I want, for free, but I get frustrated that I can't pay the authors for their often spectacular works.
I agree with you - writing and art are communication - there's no point if there's no one on the other side communicating anything. And the fact that it's all stolen>

2026-03-15 07:15:14 UTC

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Most writers and artists I know think the same, but the gap between those people and those who consume art and fiction - especially among programmers - is really depressing.

2026-03-14 09:27:46 UTC

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Happy to boost - always love an onion. Best vegetable.

2026-03-06 18:36:32 UTC

RE: https://wandering.shop/@rubyjones/116169822628428420
Only a couple of days left to get my fiction for free or cheap!
#note1zs2…apvh

2026-03-04 07:53:38 UTC

Better late than never - I have joined the Smashwords Sale!
For the rest of this week, my novellas will be 50% off and Oviposition will be free!
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/RubyJones6742
#smashwords #sale #SmashwordsSale #erotica #smut #romance #sf #fantasy #robots #androids #tentacles #oviposition #kink
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2026-02-21 14:41:07 UTC

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One of my favourite Christmas songs was one I found while compiling a Christmas Music for the Apocalypse blog series: 'A Post-Apocalyptic Christmas' by Art Elliot.
I think it's genuinely beautiful, but it still only has 2.5k views on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JlJ8OTxALv4?si=4InrDNmV9Txj4Mm4
#music #postapocalypse #ArtElliot

2026-02-04 04:48:39 UTC

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I am the same. Mostly. I enjoyed his non-Discworld books, but I couldn't get into the Discworld books, and eventually the people trying to make me like him sapped any interest in trying tom

2026-01-11 19:18:14 UTC

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This is @npub1cgj…wlgt with my SF&F romance and erotica hat on, btw 😅

2026-01-11 19:17:21 UTC

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Draft2Digital are fine. One of the few options tbh, but they have got more on the censorship train in recent years, and even refused to publish a cover that Amazon accepted. Probably not applicable to you, but if you're honest about your content warnings they get censorshipy too, but everywhere is doing that now.

2026-01-11 19:14:02 UTC

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I looked into it a few years ago when I just started thinking about self-publishing. I watched YouTube videos of people talking about their experiences. It seemed like money I didn't have for a negative return.
I think it works if you're already known or have enough cash you don't mind throwing it at that kind of thing, but it wasn't worth it for me at the time. IDK if things might have changed, though.

2025-08-27 18:39:42 UTC

Hi, so, Smutlandia died and I just did not have the spoons to find a new server before that happened.
I thought I had until the end of the month, but I looked today and everything was just gone.
Please bear with me while I try to make connections again. I have lost all my followers, my profile, everything. It's not even on the WayBack Machine. I don't really have more energy than I did before. It will take me a minute to sort things out. If you see this please RT to help me find my people.