Laurel Hightower
@laurelhightower.bsky.social
Horror loving mom. Author of that mothman book, BELOW. Also WHISPERS IN THE DARK, CROSSROADS, EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THIS, SILENT KEY, SPIRIT COVEN, and THE DAY OF THE DOOR
This is exciting! My novella in this collection is dark af, and EVERYONE brought their A game!
Sold out! On behalf of myself, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social, @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @manylittlewords.bsky.social, and Pandi Press, thank you!
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is exciting! My novella in this collection is dark af, and EVERYONE brought their A game!
Imagine thinking we're in competition and I'm just out here being happy 🥰🥰
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Imagine thinking we're in competition and I'm just out here being happy 🥰🥰
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Find your new favorite #horrorbook
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November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Here's your holiday gift shopping sorted. Two new books from me, @manylittlewords.bsky.social, @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social, & @haileypiperfights.bsky.social. Plus coffee, treats & other cool stuff. All for one low price. Full details: www.briankeene.com/news/the-bes...
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Here's your holiday gift shopping sorted. Two new books from me, @manylittlewords.bsky.social, @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social, & @haileypiperfights.bsky.social. Plus coffee, treats & other cool stuff. All for one low price. Full details: www.briankeene.com/news/the-bes...
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
THANK YOU
If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
THANK YOU
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79th read of 25:
The Sundowner’s Dance by @toddkeisling.com
-Things get cosmically outta hand at a retirement community. I think I picked a great Keisling to start with & I’m looking forward to reading more of his stories
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky #horrorbooks
The Sundowner’s Dance by @toddkeisling.com
-Things get cosmically outta hand at a retirement community. I think I picked a great Keisling to start with & I’m looking forward to reading more of his stories
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky #horrorbooks
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
79th read of 25:
The Sundowner’s Dance by @toddkeisling.com
-Things get cosmically outta hand at a retirement community. I think I picked a great Keisling to start with & I’m looking forward to reading more of his stories
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky #horrorbooks
The Sundowner’s Dance by @toddkeisling.com
-Things get cosmically outta hand at a retirement community. I think I picked a great Keisling to start with & I’m looking forward to reading more of his stories
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#booksky #horrorbooks
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In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
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“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
18.168.63.88
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In lieu of a complex graphic assaulting your eyeballs with all 18 stories I've had published this year, please consider this one if you're reading for awards: "The Power Company Detective," eligible in the short story category. Weird horror with no easy answers.
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
18.168.63.88/2025/03/29/t...
Abolish ICE. Now
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Abolish ICE. Now
If you're defending grown men banging 17, 16, 15, whatever. If you're "liking" posts and flirting with, hitting on teens? Get all the way away from me and mine. Increasingly clear the role of mean middle aged ladies like me is to protect children. If this offends, talk to a therapist not me.
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If you're defending grown men banging 17, 16, 15, whatever. If you're "liking" posts and flirting with, hitting on teens? Get all the way away from me and mine. Increasingly clear the role of mean middle aged ladies like me is to protect children. If this offends, talk to a therapist not me.
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From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
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Yaveta and Wulfren, sitting in a tree
A-R-G-U-I-N-G
First comes weepers
Then comes matan
Then comes an existential crisis because what is happening, where did these monsters come from, WHY IS THERE A NORTHMAN IN THE SOUTH????
Add THREADS OF ASH on Goodreads 💚 📚👀
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A-R-G-U-I-N-G
First comes weepers
Then comes matan
Then comes an existential crisis because what is happening, where did these monsters come from, WHY IS THERE A NORTHMAN IN THE SOUTH????
Add THREADS OF ASH on Goodreads 💚 📚👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Threads of Ash: South (The Frayed Kingdom, Book 1)
The weeping blight took everything from Yaveta, except …
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February 12, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Yaveta and Wulfren, sitting in a tree
A-R-G-U-I-N-G
First comes weepers
Then comes matan
Then comes an existential crisis because what is happening, where did these monsters come from, WHY IS THERE A NORTHMAN IN THE SOUTH????
Add THREADS OF ASH on Goodreads 💚 📚👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
A-R-G-U-I-N-G
First comes weepers
Then comes matan
Then comes an existential crisis because what is happening, where did these monsters come from, WHY IS THERE A NORTHMAN IN THE SOUTH????
Add THREADS OF ASH on Goodreads 💚 📚👀
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
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We're kicking off our Thanksgiving coverage with Forgotten Thanksgiving Traditions - Activities & Foods Of Thanksgivings ... youtu.be/KMHh36oiI3c?...
Forgotten Thanksgiving Traditions - Activities & Foods Of Thanksgivings Past
YouTube video by RetroDaze
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November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We're kicking off our Thanksgiving coverage with Forgotten Thanksgiving Traditions - Activities & Foods Of Thanksgivings ... youtu.be/KMHh36oiI3c?...
Read for a good laugh this morning ❤️❤️
ISSUE # 8 of my column MOANS FROM THE CONDIMENT FRIDGE dropped
ALL HAIL THE TOFU KIDS. It's about the time back in 2019, when I was drinking at the Copper Top all day and somehow ended up at a vegan party. I felt like Bob Newhart at a new age convention. Click link
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ALL HAIL THE TOFU KIDS. It's about the time back in 2019, when I was drinking at the Copper Top all day and somehow ended up at a vegan party. I felt like Bob Newhart at a new age convention. Click link
mrbullbull.com/newbull/moan...
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Read for a good laugh this morning ❤️❤️
😍😍😍
If you want to survive the blight, you're going to need to walk softly & carry a big axe. Or find a mysterious warrior to do it for you.
THREADS OF ASH: SOUTH
A dark fantasy horror novel. #booksky
Yaveta: Emeline Maridani
Wulfren: Paul Warren
Music: Dan Zappulla
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... 🪓
THREADS OF ASH: SOUTH
A dark fantasy horror novel. #booksky
Yaveta: Emeline Maridani
Wulfren: Paul Warren
Music: Dan Zappulla
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... 🪓
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM
😍😍😍
Omg yesssss I am a @tcparker.bsky.social fan for life!
A surprise ebook drop from the Batcave - @tcparker.bsky.social's first story collection, THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES!
No ARCs, no blurbs, not so much as a whisper of PR for this one... we're going all-in on word of mouth
Check it out - and help us spread the word!
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No ARCs, no blurbs, not so much as a whisper of PR for this one... we're going all-in on word of mouth
Check it out - and help us spread the word!
tinyurl.com/4z45pbb9
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Omg yesssss I am a @tcparker.bsky.social fan for life!
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And I’m so so so happy!
It's release day for WITHIN THE BLACK, the long anticipated follow up by @kathleenpalm.bsky.social to her beloved INTO THE GRAY! I absolutely adore this series and have bought copies for teachers and moms all over. Happy book birthday!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And I’m so so so happy!
It's release day for WITHIN THE BLACK, the long anticipated follow up by @kathleenpalm.bsky.social to her beloved INTO THE GRAY! I absolutely adore this series and have bought copies for teachers and moms all over. Happy book birthday!!
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It's release day for WITHIN THE BLACK, the long anticipated follow up by @kathleenpalm.bsky.social to her beloved INTO THE GRAY! I absolutely adore this series and have bought copies for teachers and moms all over. Happy book birthday!!
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
I can't WAIT
ONE MORE DAY
“For fans of Goosebumps and [...] Small Spaces, Within the Black blends spooky sci-fi fun with rich poignant elements readers of all ages will love. [...] Imaginative, heart-wrenching, and oh-so-spooky, I enjoyed every second!”
~Goodreads 5 stars
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“For fans of Goosebumps and [...] Small Spaces, Within the Black blends spooky sci-fi fun with rich poignant elements readers of all ages will love. [...] Imaginative, heart-wrenching, and oh-so-spooky, I enjoyed every second!”
~Goodreads 5 stars
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Within The Black
Welcome to Nowhere, the place of lost things. With an abundance of cold, black fog. With a grumpy Caretaker who doesn’t care. With a wall of black that hides secrets. With a monster, The Keeper, who d...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't WAIT
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Recent acquisitions over here from @laurelhightower.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @catdelani.bsky.social Lindy Ryan @christaqua.bsky.social Andy Marino @christinahenry.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Recent acquisitions over here from @laurelhightower.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @catdelani.bsky.social Lindy Ryan @christaqua.bsky.social Andy Marino @christinahenry.bsky.social
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A little over two hours away now! Better go get my workout in 😅
Make sure you go register for this Thursday @sgj.bsky.social event with @qplnyc.bsky.social! If I don’t see you there at 6pm ET, I will be ✨upset✨
Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a0f0fc...
Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a0f0fc...
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A little over two hours away now! Better go get my workout in 😅
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For every book I sell between now and Dec. 1 (or whenever the gov't reopens), I'll donate $1 to Arlington Food Assistance Center, my local food bank. You can find my books through all major retailers, and you can also get signed copies here: sonorataylor.square.site
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November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For every book I sell between now and Dec. 1 (or whenever the gov't reopens), I'll donate $1 to Arlington Food Assistance Center, my local food bank. You can find my books through all major retailers, and you can also get signed copies here: sonorataylor.square.site
I read this and it was absolutely stellar
Hey everyone! It's time for my next giveaway! Like and follow for a chance to win a signed paperback of my collection WHILE I WAS GONE! I'll draw a winner on 11/16 👻🖤
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I read this and it was absolutely stellar
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November kicks off with what might be the last really big #NewBookTuesday of 2025! We've picked 22 can't-miss #books by authors like @margaretatwood.bsky.social, @elizkolbert.bsky.social, @charlesfinch.bsky.social, @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @jhr54.bsky.social, @sheldoncosta.bsky.social, + more!
Best New Books: Week of 11/4/25
Michelle Obama, Paul McCartney, Margaret Atwood, Anthony Hopkins, Martin Scorsese, Salman Rushdie, Susan Mallery, Marissa Meyer, John Irving, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Kenny Chesney, Elizabeth Kolbert, …
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November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
November kicks off with what might be the last really big #NewBookTuesday of 2025! We've picked 22 can't-miss #books by authors like @margaretatwood.bsky.social, @elizkolbert.bsky.social, @charlesfinch.bsky.social, @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @jhr54.bsky.social, @sheldoncosta.bsky.social, + more!