Ruth Ware Profile Banner
Ruth Ware Profile
Ruth Ware

@RuthWareWriter

28,433
Followers
592
Following
463
Media
14,473
Statuses

Writer of emails, tweets, to-do lists, and occasionally books. New book One Perfect Couple out this summer!

London
Joined April 2014
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Pinned Tweet
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 months
When Lyla signs up for a new reality TV show One Perfect Couple, she's expecting sun, sand, sea and a bit of competitive flirting. What she gets is much, much more deadly. Someone is playing this game for real - and the stakes are life or death. Are you a survivor, or a traitor?
2
9
48
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I just read an Amazon review (not for one of my books) that said "it feels like the author was just making it up as they went along" and I can't stop laughing. Like, dude, I hate to tell you this...
185
3K
53K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I can't find who to credit for this, but this is basically how writing a book feels.
Tweet media one
38
287
2K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
I'm conducting a one-woman protest against the January diet industry by eating a piece of cheese every time I get a weight loss ad in my feed.
89
70
2K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
What's a minor, basically pointless skill you wish you had? I would like to be able to skim stones. Anything too useful will be disallowed.
2K
64
2K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I'm muting this now as my notifications are overflowing and I need to do some work, aka make some stuff up as I go along 😆 - but I do know what the guy meant and it's a totally valid complaint - I just found the phrasing funny. So no shade to the reviewer, it just made me smile!
7
14
2K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Also I'm totally lying about the work, I'm actually off to do wordle.
13
12
2K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Here's the thing - a lot of Austen is funny, but Persuasion isn't. It's sad, wistful and full of regret. If Netflix want a funny regency novel for the Bridgerton treatment, why not go with Northanger Abbey? Or literally ANY Georgette Heyer who has about 7 million unadapted books?
43
97
1K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I'm never going to forgive parer. Never. My anger is as raw as the day it happened. (Yesterday, but that's not the point.)
96
38
1K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
11 months
The news is out!! 😲
@DEADLINE
Deadline Hollywood
11 months
EXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Ruth Ware’s latest novel, Zero Days, has been optioned by Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group
14
15
118
154
49
1K
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
No big deal, just my ENORMOUS BOOK in Leicester Square! 😍
Tweet media one
71
20
970
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Picture of an author who's just found out her book is NUMBER TWO on the NYT!! So proud to be representing for Team @ScoutPressBooks ! 🥂
Tweet media one
102
18
924
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Dear UK government. Take the fucking refugees. Signed, everyone with a heart.
2
69
846
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Are these not the prettiest crime novels you've ever seen?! 😍
Tweet media one
21
68
847
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
Look what the postman just delivered!!! 😮😍😬🙀😊
Tweet media one
88
26
840
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Books never go down. Just saying.
20
151
834
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
@MickLaSalle Excuse me but speaking for the over 40 ladies... yes we do. Oh yes.
26
7
744
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
11 months
Happy pub date to meeee! Zero Days is out into the world (in the US and Canada anyway) and I'm marking up my copy for my very first public readings. I hope you love Jack, Hel and Gabe as much as I do. I can't wait for you to meet them!
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
76
62
671
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
10 months
Portrait of a very tired, very happy author. Two bestseller lists in one day calls for celebration! Love you US readers ♥️🇺🇸♥️
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
58
19
644
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
A thread of ten writing tips for anyone doing #NaNoWriMo (or anyone not doing #NaNo ! You can write any time you want). 1) Have an ending in mind. This is the number one tip I give when asked for writing advice. You don't need to plot out the whole book (I don't) but having a
20
118
632
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
New book incoming, folks! Can't wait for you to meet The It Girl. More details to come very soon...
@thebookseller
The Bookseller
3 years
"The It Girl is yet another unputdownable novel from Ruth Ware", @simonschusterUK has signed a new book from @RuthWareWriter in a two-book deal, with The It Girl set to publish in August 2022. Discover more here:
Tweet media one
3
11
53
98
45
629
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
@johnredwood You do understand that when they refer to beds they're not literally referring to pieces of furniture, but to the staff capacity to look after patients? Staff which are in desperately short supply due to Brexit and historically low funding? Either you don't understand this in
10
30
603
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
5 months
I'm so thrilled that I can finally talk about this. It's been a complete joy to work alongside the brilliant and indefatigable planning committee and I promise Harrogate 2024 is going to be a BLAST
@HarrogateFest
Harrogate Festivals
5 months
We're thrilled to announce that international bestselling author @RuthWareWriter will be taking the reins as Programming Chair for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2024! Find out more👉 #TheakstonsCrime #Harrogate @Theakston1827
Tweet media one
31
46
224
65
53
590
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
📢📢📢 This is not a drill! We have UK proof copies in the building. Bloggers and reviewers, they will be coming your way very soon... Let the countdown begin...
Tweet media one
49
32
564
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Randomly remembered Past Times today - does anyone else remember those shops? They always smelled lovely - wax candles and little victorian soaps - and had soothing classical music playing, and were lit with a lovely golden glow that felt like permanent Christmas.
91
7
537
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Exciting news! "Working Title Options Ruth Ware’s Haunted House Thriller ‘The Turn Of The Key’, Max Minghella & Jamie Bell To Write Script" via @Deadline
89
40
510
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I was really surprised by the replies on this thread saying, effectively, two years is ridiculous. Actually two years from signing the contract to publication is pretty standard. Someone in the comments asked why publishing is so secretive about this - here's the thing 1/?
@jodyjsperling
Jody J Sperling
2 years
If a publisher offers to publish your novel, but you have to wait two years and they need to cut 10,000 words, will you take the deal?
551
23
531
16
107
499
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
10 months
Toss up what drives me off this app first, Elon Musk or the CONTESTANT FUCKING BRA ADVERTS. Twitter, I will not now or ever be buying a bra designed by an "elderly woman" that's "taking over the world" and will eliminate my "side boob". Please take this as my final decision.
57
13
496
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
5 months
Cover reveal klaxon!! 📢 The gorgeous, moody, tropical cover for my new book ONE PERFECT COUPLE. I hope you love it as much as I do! You can find out more and preorder over at
Tweet media one
41
47
479
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
It's publication day for The It Girl and I'm overwhelmed by all the lovely messages! Thank you SO much, I'm sorry if I haven't replied - I'm on the road so typing is tricky, but look what we found at Myrtle Beach airport, literally RIGHT out of the box!
Tweet media one
31
7
449
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
The satisfaction when you pick the exact right tupperware container for leftovers and they fit *perfectly* is really getting me through my forties
35
11
447
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
11 months
Look what just arrived!!
42
12
434
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 years
@GOVUK I'm so fed up with having this spammed into my feed when no-one knows what the rules are yet! It's like being shouted at by a teacher for not completing your homework when they haven't set it yet.
3
18
425
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
I can't speak for other authors but for me the part of the publishing process I find the hardest is when the book is written but it's not yet published and you're waiting to hear if everyone loves - or hates - it. Anyway I'm in that part at the moment which made it particularly
45
8
419
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Facebook is back. Once again we can find out if Susan from Guildford can in fact name a fish without an A in it (97% of people can't!)
29
25
417
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
@mollymcghee Normal for people to leave things on the stairs to be taken up, but in our house it's very much optional for anyone else to take it up - it's mainly left there until the person who put it there goes up.
4
0
418
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
@LauraSRobinson @MasonCrossBooks 😆 when I wrote for kids my bete noire was reviews that said "this book felt like it was aimed at teenagers"
2
2
406
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
7 months
Honestly so shocked and delighted to be on this list alongside some of my absolute heroes. What an honour!
@TIME
TIME
7 months
Find out why 'The Turn of the Key' by @RuthWareWriter is one of the 100 best mystery and thriller books of all time
7
11
41
33
17
412
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Woke up today and it's a cool, grey morning with just a hint of a nip in the air - feels like autumn is coming, and I can't wait for long boots and hot chocolates and cosy knits. Who's with me?
Tweet media one
50
4
401
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
Poor kids being set work on teams instead of having a proper snow day - didn't they suffer enough in the pandemic? Feel like schools could have looked the other way just this once...
37
9
396
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
Well, if Twitter follows through, today is my last day as a blue tick, so stay safe out there readers. I will never communicate from any other Twitter handle. I will never ask you for money, even if I *am* stranded in New York without my wallet. I will never try to sell you NFTs.
12
10
375
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
I know we were all joking about "book shortages! Stockpile now!" a few weeks ago, but folks, there really IS a looming supply chain crisis in books, so if you want to buy a loved one a book for Christmas, pre-order or buy it now.
18
120
371
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 years
I have not done a single useful thing today. Between election wtfery, impending lockdown and imminent UK publication of One by One, I'm just locked in a loop of stress-drinking coffee, scrolling twitter and internally screaming.
37
7
368
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Does anyone else have to psych themselves up into writing? Every day I sit down at the desk at 9am and think "right, I'll get on with it." And every day I have to faff around for an hour before I actually do, in fact, get on with it. It's like my brain has to warm up.
89
13
372
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
@johnredwood which case you shouldn't be allowed near public policy ever again, or you do understand this and you're deliberately mis-representing the crisis in order to dog whistle up hostility against the people trying desperately to keep the wheels on the NHS.
6
12
362
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
I'm signing off for Christmas now but I wish you all the happiest possible of holidays - and however you spend the day, I hope you get a few minutes peace and joy curled up with a book xxx
21
3
341
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 months
Folks, I have a UK cover for One Perfect Couple and I am in LOVE with it - and more than that - will you look at those SPREDGES!!! The spredged editions will be strictly limited but you can pre-order here (and I'll sign them!)
Tweet media one
31
40
335
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Homework is stupid and this is the hill I will die on. I hated it as a kid and as an adult I think it's even more divisive and pointless. 1) if you understand a concept you don't need to wade through twenty more examples at home. And if you didn't understand it in class, it's
44
23
332
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Shout out to all the writers trying to remember what their characters are called and what the hell that cryptic note about the armchair means.
17
12
314
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Completely THRILLED to reveal these beautiful new look covers from @vintagebooks , hitting the shops this June or brightening up your ebook reader right now. Which is your favourite?
Tweet media one
41
19
311
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I'd also quite like to be able to do cryptic crosswords properly rather than just guessing five clues then giving up
21
2
309
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
10 months
Welcome to the world, little book baby! Zero Days UK joining its US and Canadian sisters - out now in the UK, Australia, NZ and Ireland 💙
Tweet media one
31
19
301
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
11 months
The very first bestseller list to come in and.... Zero Days is an official number one bestseller!!! 😍 Thank you Canada!
Tweet media one
42
14
305
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I'm not sure if the MPs opining "but everyone was breaking the rules" realise how extremely shit this argument appears to all the millions and millions and millions of us WHO DID NOT BREAK THE RULES.
9
26
300
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
The part of fancy online events you don't see - me jerry-rigging a laptop stand out of a chair, a suitcase, a bunch of towels, and my dressing gown cord (to stop the whole thing sliding apart). Reader - it worked!
Tweet media one
22
3
294
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Before antihistamines did everyone just die of snot every spring, or is hay fever a modern phenomenon? I feel like Shakespeare and Austen don't spend enough time on the state of everyone's sinuses.
26
13
291
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
In response to some reader queries, here is the official Ruth Ware Scare-ometer of my books (in my view. YMMV) In a Dark Dark Wood 👻👻👻 The Woman in Cabin 10 👻👻 The Lying Game 👻 The Death of Mrs Westway 👻👻 The Turn of the Key 👻👻👻👻 One by One 👻👻 The It Girl 👻
29
21
266
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Is it me or does talking about 2019 feel like about a hundred years ago? 2019. It sounds so OLD. Did we ride penny farthings and watch VHS films back then?
19
7
264
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
11 months
One down...
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
16
5
266
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
The It Girl is out in paperback in the US today! 💛 Fly, my little golden book baby - picture reposted from @gjfordbookshop on Instagram
Tweet media one
20
17
255
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Woke up this morning pretty annoyed Snoop is not a real app. How do I complain to Spotify about this?
29
3
254
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Yes I'm in New York. Yes my publishers are the loveliest people ever. Cheers 🥂 @ScoutPressBooks ♥️♥️♥️ Here's to our seven year anniversary!
Tweet media one
19
6
248
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
HOT TAKE: Elf on the shelf is creepy and if someone were doing it to their partner it would be called gaslighting.
24
8
243
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 years
Well folks, it's been a good run, and I'm pretty sure I'll get time off for good behaviour. See you when I get out.
@DEADLINE
Deadline Hollywood
4 years
Google Supplying Police User Information Based On Keyword Searches – Report
102
589
708
16
6
242
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
On behalf of authors and mathematicians everywhere, can I point out that by all mathematical rules, three and a half stars should be rounded UP, not down.
12
17
242
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
@MajimeKoala @julesdoyle It's a totally valid complaint and I know exactly what he meant - it was just a funny way to phrase it in the context of authors literally making stuff up as they go along, that's what made me laugh. Didn't expect this tweet to go quite as viral as it has 😆
3
4
238
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
10 months
In order to maintain the useability of this website we are stopping users from using it. Seems like a very sensible strategy. Much genius. Very guru.
13
25
241
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
That feeling when your characters take over and the book feels like it's writing itself, is there any better writerly feeling? It's like flying and being in love at the same time.
12
5
235
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
11 months
Dream. Come. True! Thank you to everyone who voted for me - this means the world and woah, what a shortlist!!
@HarrogateFest
Harrogate Festivals
11 months
We're thrilled to announce the #TheakstonAward shortlist 2023! Congratulations to all our shortlisted authors 🥳 Discover the shortlist here 👇 @MWCravenUK @FionaAnnCummins @ellygriffiths @doug_johnstone @GillianMAuthor @RuthWareWriter #theakstonscrime
Tweet media one
17
92
228
26
10
227
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
@Sathnam My favourite fact about magnolias is that they evolved before bees did, so their flowers are adapted to be pollinated by beetles which is why they're so tough. So you know, if we kill the bees at least we'll have magnolias.
9
19
223
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
11 months
Everyone should do this
@JRZGRLinFL
Momma J
11 months
So apparently I really wanted to read @RuthWareWriter 's book. So much so that I ordered 2 copies from 2 different places. Hopefully that was all of them that I ordered.
Tweet media one
2
0
15
13
5
215
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
That sound you hear is 40,287 novelists sharpening their quills.
Tweet media one
12
12
216
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Well the cats presented with two dead rats, plus one live one for Mother's Day. They released the live rat in the living room then looked scared and wandered off leaving me to try and capture it (I trapped it in a Lego box and put it in the garden 💪) so how's your day going?
23
1
213
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Shouting and swearing at your employees and belittling your juniors doesn't make you a "strong leader" no matter what your gender. It makes you a bad, bullying boss. Dressing this up as feminism is gross.
8
35
210
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
I think the solution is for Piers Morgan to step up and show us all how it's done, since it's apparently no biggie. Come on Piers, triple back flip off the vault - off you go!
9
12
211
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 years
As a life-long glasses wearer, it wearies me that to get a person-with-glasses emoji you have to search "nerd". If you search for "glasses" you get 😎 and 🥂. Now, there's nothing wrong with being a nerd. I am - separately - quite nerdy. But could we have some more diverse 🤓?
10
7
209
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
Today I woke up to the utterly brilliant news that The It Girl is nominated for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award. It's always been a dream of mine to be shortlisted for this award so I'm going to throw pride to the wind and beg you to vote!
31
11
208
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
God I love summer storms - the way the temperature drops like a stone, and suddenly the darkness is filled with sheet lightning and slow, fat rain. Lying in bed, listening to the thunder rolling around the hills...
12
2
205
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Y'all* I am in Nashville and it is SO COOL. The architecture is gorgeous. I love it! *Have been in the South since Tuesday so am now basically southern 😆
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
17
2
204
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I'm in Texas and I'm really, really enjoying being called ma'am. Strongly think we should introduce it in the UK.
29
1
204
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Why is silver in the Olympics a huge achievement but losing a football final a broken dream? Seriously do not get it. England were amazing, lost to the best team in the one by ONE penalty, and gave everyone weeks of joy and one of the most charismatic, inspiring teams ever.
7
10
203
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Well this is straight up going in my next book. Who doesn't want to find a creepy, possibly inhabited apartment behind their bathroom mirror?
29
5
201
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
DON'T MIND ME JUST HANGING OUT AT NUMBER ONE IN ALL KINDLE ALL CASUAL LIKE
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
17
4
204
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 years
Eating lunch, I randomly remembered the first time someone used an emoji in an email to me and how shocked and disapproving I was. It was a work email and they ended ;) and I was like... do we not use our WORDS any more? Now, my emails are like ☺️🤪😡😟😳👽💅👈😿🎃🤖😺👺😼🙏👨‍🍳
13
2
195
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Soooo excited to reveal the gorgeous golden US cover of The It Girl, out July 2022 from @ScoutPressBooks . If you can't wait that long, read an exclusive excerpt over at @EW or preorder your copy at Let me know what you think!
Tweet media one
30
16
195
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
I think there should be a law that if you have more than two bank holidays in one month, one gets bumped to the next month. It's simply ridiculous that we have three BHs in May and none in June.
26
5
195
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
Out in US paperback today!!! Thank you @ScoutPressBooks for such a pretty book 💙💙💙
Tweet media one
12
10
190
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
The Woman in the House Across the Street etc etc was very funny (with some genuinely good twists!) and any Woman in Cabin 10 fans will enjoy the final episode 😆 Sequel please, @netflix ! Also if @KristenBell wants to play Lo I would be A-OK with that.
Tweet media one
19
4
191
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
@BrandyLJensen At least she's got somewhere to poop out of. This is a question never addressed on the conventional mermaid anatomy
8
3
189
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Employees increasingly feel like they have to be "on" 24/7, answering emails, doing work in the evenings. And this isn't ok. We need a society where ring-fenced time off is seen as the norm, not an eccentricity. That should start with schools. End of rant.
11
7
188
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
Book research is great. I now know how to phish your passwords and read your tarot cards. Maybe at the same time. Who said an English degree wouldn't lead to career opportunities.
10
4
187
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
THRILLED to share the US cover of my new book ZERO DAYS, out this summer from @GalleryBooks , @simonschusterUK , @SimonSchusterCA and @simonschuster Australia. Pre-order links at
17
21
189
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 months
Welcome to the world my little paperback baby!
Tweet media one
10
18
189
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
My exceedingly annoying cat brought a mouse into the bedroom last night and it's taken refuge in a hole in the skirting board where there used to be a radiator and is refusing to come out. I've tried gently tugging its tail but it just digs its claws in. What to do?!
Tweet media one
103
4
186
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
An app which centralises all your media subscriptions (netflix, prime, spotify etc) in one place and lets you pause and resume subscriptions from a single interface. Who's with me?
14
4
182
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
2 years
I'm trying an experiment in drinking more water. So for the next [however many days until I forget] every time I have a cup of coffee, I'm going to match it with an equal size cup of water. More news as we have it.
33
2
179
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
OR, and I know this is probably crazy talk, we could, you know, preserve the perfectly good planet WE ALREADY HAVE.
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
3 years
@wapodavenport My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars and preserve the light of consciousness
6K
2K
19K
14
18
179
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
1 year
@ukhomeoffice @SuellaBraverman You know what would stop the boats? A UK processing centre in France and a safe, legal route to claim asylum. So why won't you establish one?
5
5
178
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
4 months
So in a few weeks I'll be travelling to Savannah for the Savannah literary festival and I'm very excited to try the FOOD. You can't really get southern cuisine in the UK - aside from KFC and I'm not sure that counts as cuisine - so what should I make sure to try while I'm over?
67
2
182
@RuthWareWriter
Ruth Ware
3 years
So many exhausting covid dreams. Dreamt last night that I was in a crowded shop and had forgotten my mask. Is this going to be the new "school without your clothes on" anxiety dream for the next twenty years?
20
5
176