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Black Lives Matter. Award-winning author. Board member: Scares That Care . She/her. Latest release: All the Pieces Coming Together: Collected Works. Visit me at sonorawrites.com

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SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 8: CURSED PLACES - Two Novelettes (print + eBook) *p This a preorder. This book is expected to ship on or before April 21st, 2026. “Evocative and evil, a powerful one-two punch of horror” Tamika Thompson, THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS This is not a place ...

“In Passing Glance, Sonora Taylor reimagines the cabin-in-the-woods trope and gives us something fresh and new. You’ll never look at that eccentric house that every city has the same way ever again.”

-David Simmons, author of Eradicator and Ghosts of East Baltimore

Preorder:

09.03.2026 15:00 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

We owe him an apology

11.03.2026 08:58 👍 445 🔁 78 💬 0 📌 0

Bullying works.

11.03.2026 19:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Carrie Bradshaw: “And as our country entered World War III, I couldn’t help but wonder… is it time to focus on World War Me?”

Carrie Bradshaw: “And as our country entered World War III, I couldn’t help but wonder… is it time to focus on World War Me?”

what it feels like promoting your own writing in 2026

11.03.2026 02:27 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 4
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Editing I was formerly an editor at  Quirk Books  (2021–2025), specializing in gift and lifestyle nonfiction as well as genre fiction, and the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature  (2017–2021),...

If you’re considering asking an AI slop golem for help with your writing project, why not ask me, a real person who is good at this, instead?

11.03.2026 15:35 👍 65 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 2

I'm so glad you're still with us. <3

11.03.2026 15:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you are an author or editor at *ANY* level -- from beginner to jaded old veteran like me, click through to the article Todd's posting about, take 2 minutes, and email them to let them know you opt out. Will save us all time having to mount yet a 577th class-action suit down the road.

10.03.2026 18:58 👍 132 🔁 68 💬 7 📌 7

Thanks for sharing and reviewing!

10.03.2026 14:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I stand by this. A lot.

You ought to pick this one up.

09.03.2026 18:49 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Experience Capitals hockey!

10.03.2026 00:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yay! Thanks for buying ERRANT ROOTS. :)

09.03.2026 22:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Top row: The House on the Cover of a horror novel by EV Knight, Pam Kowolski is a Monster! By Sarah Langan
Bottom row: Bottling his ghosts by S.H. Cooper, Errant Roots by Sonora Taylor

Top row: The House on the Cover of a horror novel by EV Knight, Pam Kowolski is a Monster! By Sarah Langan Bottom row: Bottling his ghosts by S.H. Cooper, Errant Roots by Sonora Taylor

Next month's horror book club is Pam Kowolski is a Monster! By Sarah Langan. So, I got some other books, including Bottling His Ghosts by @pippinacious.bsky.social and Errant Roots by @sonorataylor.bsky.social, at RDSPress while I was at it. Long live Women in Horror, all year, but this month, too.

09.03.2026 21:41 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Congrats!

09.03.2026 19:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of She Isn't Herself Tonight by Hailey Piper, art by Caroline Johnson, depicting a woman caught between neon lights, her face fracturing into reflections of itself. Beneath the title is a quote from Rachel Harrison calling the novel "Blissfully twisted and genuinely heartfelt."

Cover of She Isn't Herself Tonight by Hailey Piper, art by Caroline Johnson, depicting a woman caught between neon lights, her face fracturing into reflections of itself. Beneath the title is a quote from Rachel Harrison calling the novel "Blissfully twisted and genuinely heartfelt."

Cover reveal day!

I'm thrilled to announce my new novel coming from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social, SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT

Alien abductions, a break-up from hell, and what we become when our worst enemies are ourselves.

Light your skies, October 27th 🛸

www.simonandschuster.com/books/She-Is...

09.03.2026 18:05 👍 442 🔁 98 💬 49 📌 14
Blurbs from Clay McLeod Chapman, Tamika Thompson, Pedro Iniguez, Michael Boulerice, David Simmons and M.Shaw over Echo Echo artwork of two very deranged and transforming deer.

Blurbs from Clay McLeod Chapman, Tamika Thompson, Pedro Iniguez, Michael Boulerice, David Simmons and M.Shaw over Echo Echo artwork of two very deranged and transforming deer.

"A horny, haunted house mindfuck...& a grim, folk horror dystopia w/lots of stomach-churning body horror" @philmakesmonsters.bsky.social

So: *ALL* of the things!

SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES by @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social is out 4/21.

Preorder:
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09.03.2026 18:40 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1

My husband and I saw this along with all the other animated shorts this past weekend and loved it. It's an incredibly tough race this year -- I honestly can't pick a favorite.

09.03.2026 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I saw Christians or the church committing atrocious acts, I kept saying over and over "Real Christianity isn't like that." After a while I realized it is exactly like that, and that it's actually *me* that's not like that. So why would I identify as something I'm not?

09.03.2026 17:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He's awesome!

09.03.2026 16:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 8: CURSED PLACES - Two Novelettes (print + eBook) *p This a preorder. This book is expected to ship on or before April 21st, 2026. “Evocative and evil, a powerful one-two punch of horror” Tamika Thompson, THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS This is not a place ...

“In Passing Glance, Sonora Taylor reimagines the cabin-in-the-woods trope and gives us something fresh and new. You’ll never look at that eccentric house that every city has the same way ever again.”

-David Simmons, author of Eradicator and Ghosts of East Baltimore

Preorder:

09.03.2026 15:00 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Happy birthday!

09.03.2026 14:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

On April 21st, Virginia voters will be given the opportunity to level the playing field and fight back against the White House’s scheme to rig our maps.

Free and fair elections are under attack. We need every Virginian to vote YES for fair elections in the Commonwealth.

06.03.2026 16:41 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Did not think this was about Nintendo.

09.03.2026 13:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What’s your favorite essay collection?

07.03.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. Close seconds are Not That Bad by Roxane Gay and Crush by Cathy Alter and Dave Singleton.

07.03.2026 15:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A digital simulation of a work and weathered two color relief print on toned paper. A black goat with big horns curving back in a somewhat exaggerated running or prancing pose is turning his head to look back over his shoulder. There is a pole topped with a small inverted cross crooked in one of his front legs and attached to the pole, streaming over the goat, is a red banner bearing some crusty looking blackletter script reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’

A digital simulation of a work and weathered two color relief print on toned paper. A black goat with big horns curving back in a somewhat exaggerated running or prancing pose is turning his head to look back over his shoulder. There is a pole topped with a small inverted cross crooked in one of his front legs and attached to the pole, streaming over the goat, is a red banner bearing some crusty looking blackletter script reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’

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My sister rescued a new pom. He's inbred and his name is Sandwich

07.03.2026 03:14 👍 2022 🔁 195 💬 93 📌 34

Have you seen 1408?

07.03.2026 03:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

DON BLUTH'S RATATOUILLE

07.03.2026 02:26 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2

Genndry Tartakovsky's Monsters Inc.

07.03.2026 02:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We saw THE BRIDE! today and it was very good. Weird, but good weird. Violent and messy in ways that mostly worked. I loved Annette Benning as the scientist. Only distracting thing for me was that Buckley’s Mary Shelley sounded like Timeless Toni Storm.

06.03.2026 23:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0