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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Feb 2

Also be sure to join my mailing list at www.tananarivelist.com - hubby @kundalinisteve.bsky.social and I do weekly FREE Zooms with advice on writing and stress relief.

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Nov 8

Octavia E. Butler signed this copy of Parable of the Sower for my late mother, Patricia Stephens Due.

The power of these Black women inspired me to write an essay after Tr*mp's inauguration in 2017. I've reposted a slightly revised version I hope will bring you hope today.

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Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler

I originally wrote this essay to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. It deeply grieves me to publish it…

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 11h

xoxo -- I'm still floored by that great edit you did on "The Other Side"! 😂

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lanna "elizabeth hauntgomery" banana @lanna.bsky.social · 15h

Reading The Reformatory now and it's GREAT.

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 17h

My Soul to Keep is on this list. (And he also recommended The Reformatory!) :)

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8 Horror Books Stephen King Has Recommended For Your Spooky Season Halloween Reading List

The King has spoken.

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Multnomah County Library @multcolib.bsky.social · 4d

If you're looking to read about "Family issues with ghosts (bonus points for bipoc representation)" explore The Good House by @tananarivedue.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian

The Good House — Multnomah County Library

The Good House — Due, Tananarive, 1966- — Working to rebuild her law practice after her son commits suicide, Angela Toussaint journeys to the family home where the suicide took place, hoping for answe...

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 17h

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Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social · 2d

Finished “The Good House” after I read “The Reformatory”. @tananarivedue.bsky.social reels you in and keeps you on the edge of your seat … while also delivering a strong message of how the past can always come back to haunt the present. Reading next:

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 17h

My Soul to Keep is on this list. (And he also recommended The Reformatory!) :)

screenrant.com/horror-books...

8 Horror Books Stephen King Has Recommended For Your Spooky Season Halloween Reading List

The King has spoken.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 8d

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Ken Reid @kennethwreid.bsky.social · 8d

Thought of @tananarivedue.bsky.social when this popped up

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 8d

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Rob "Cheddar Goblin" Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 9d

#31HorrorBooksforHalloween THE BETWEEN by @tananarivedue.bsky.social #horrorsky #booksky #horrorbooksky

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 8d

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Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social · 9d

Ebook version of THE REFORMATORY by @tananarivedue.bsky.social is currently only $2.99 on various sites.

If you’ve not yet read this horror masterpiece, now is a great time to do so!

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry (not sorry)?

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 10d

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Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social · 13d

The next two books on my spooky season reading. @tananarivedue.bsky.social “The Good House” (audio) and “The Year of the Witching” by Alexis Henderson.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 21d

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

It's official: My next book is about Battlestar Galactica!

Long ago, the gods decided my fate, and I have embraced it: I’m writing a book about Battlestar Galactica! I made it official at the Creation convention that took place in New Jersey this past weeken...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25d

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.

When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.

I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 25d

weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 25d

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The real face of the aliens when you put on the special glasses in the movie THEY LIVE

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 25d

No you did not. 🤬

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25d

I didn’t deserve this.

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Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social · 27d

If you are going to pick up a book this fall make it @tananarivedue.bsky.social “The Reformatory”. Incredibly written. Draws you in with raw and gut wrenching storytelling that reminds us all of the strength in telling our stories — not just for us but for all of those whose voices were silenced.

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Netmouse @netmouse.bsky.social · 28d

This week's Friday review on AKGnetmouse.substack.com will be of Freedom in the Family, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and her mother, Civil Rights activist Patricia Stephens Due.

I cherish my copy, which Tananarive kindly signed at Detcon1 in 2014.

The front cover of Freedom In The Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due. (One World, 2003)

The cover illustration is a B&W photo of Patricia Stephens Due, in dark sunglasses, leading a line of other young black women along a sidewalk, heads held high.

Title Page inside this copy of Freedom in the Family. It is inscribed, "To Anne -- The Dream Lives! The struggle continues." signed Tananarive Due in the middle, and Patricia Due along the bottom edge. In the top right corner, it says, "7/18/14 Detcon1"

The right side and bottom of the book are edged with several yellow post-its, marking pages of interest.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 25d

OMG 😘😘😘😘

Distópolis 📚 Temporada XI @distopolis.bsky.social · 26d

La Biblioteca De Carfax desvela la portada de la novela EL REFORMATORIO de Tananarive Due @tananarivedue.bsky.social , una historia de terror ambientada en un reformatorio de Florida bajo la segregación racial de las leyes Jim Crow y que publicará en noviembre: distopolis.com/la-bibliotec...

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Vincent Powell @vincentpowell.bsky.social · Sep 13

As a film and media studies professor who also runs a prod co., my time fills quickly and I don’t get to pick up books as much as I’d like.

I FINALLY opened @tananarivedue.bsky.social’s #TheRefomatory…. Ya’ll I’ve never SWEATED from reading in my LIFE…….. I mean… perspiring.

A photo of the novel The Reformatory in a Raleigh tavern

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Sep 12

truuuuuuuue

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Sep 12

That part lol

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Sep 12

I mean, I KNEW. But I didn't KNOW know.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · Sep 12

I heard that name "Robinson" - then I saw the photo.

a close up of a man 's face with a serious look on his face

Alt: Denzel looking relieved

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