Author, artist, advocate, and aficionado of alliteration. Also see: antagonist (probably)
My work is a Venn Diagram of visual and written media. I live at the conjunction of queer, disabled, and neurodivergent identities, and so within everything I make you will find the themes of found family, grief, queerness, and mental health.
At times sassy and sarcastic, other times earnest and raw, no matter the genre, world, or plot, every story is a mirror to the moment in time it was penned. Every story’s breath comes from the gut-achingly relatable characters navigating the same joys and losses we all experience, separated from us only by the imaginative and fantastical sandbox they live in.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
The Fable of Wren
A quiet magical realism mystery about finding your place in a world you no longer recognize…
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The Stars Will Guide Us Back
A contemporary science-fiction, fantasy, magical realism, supernatural short story collection.
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Daylight Chasers
A whispered wish begins a tumultuous journey…
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Before I Go I Want You to Know
A poetry, short story, and art collection for anyone who is afraid no one could love their broken parts…
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CURRENT WORK
The Arche//TYPE Series
The ARCHE//TYPE series is a project focused on dissecting storytelling tropes, themes, narratives, and of course, archetypes. Each book focuses on a different aspect of storytelling, including: Love Story of a Hero and Villain, Time Travel for Dummies, and The Wrath of Achilles.
The first book, Love Story of a Hero and Villain, is an epistolary novel breaking the doomed narrative of heroes and villains as the antagonist and protagonist struggle to shatter the roles they’d been handed.
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WHO IS RUE SPARKS?
Evolution of a ‘Story Nerd’
Rue Sparks barreled into the publishing scene in 2019 asking us the question: “what if you could experience a day that (nearly) never ends?”
With their debut work, Daylight Chasers, they called the reader to think about our compulsion to document every moment, how little we truly understand about those around us, and how moments in our lives can be so beautiful even in tragedy.
This tumultuous journey alongside two relatable and mercurial characters would become the star chart upon which Sparks’ fiction is guided. Every story’s breath comes from the gut-achingly relatable characters navigating the same joys and losses we all experience, separated from us only by the imaginative and fantastical sandbox they live in.
Sparks has since published three other solo titles including the short story collection The Stars Will Guide Us Back, the magical realism novel The Fable of Wren, and a compendium of art, poetry, and short stories, Before I Go I Want You to Know. They were also featured in Skullgate Media’s Chronicles of New Albion and Cryptid Carols to the Sing in the Dark through Momento Mori Press.
Their current project is Arche//TYPE, a series of visual epistolary novels dissecting tried-and-true tropes and story archetypes by combining prose, comics, news articles, letters, and other design elements. The first book, Eclipse: Love Story of a Hero and Villain, is in progress on Patreon.