Lora Senf
@lorasenf.bsky.social
Writer. Wife. Twin momma.
Bram Stoker Award Winner.
THE CLACKITY
THE NIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
THE LONELIEST PLACE
THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN
PENNIES
UNNAMED BONES (summer 2026)
[email protected] * LoraSenf.com
Bram Stoker Award Winner.
THE CLACKITY
THE NIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
THE LONELIEST PLACE
THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN
PENNIES
UNNAMED BONES (summer 2026)
[email protected] * LoraSenf.com
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November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Just finished DARK season 2. Somehow this show keeps getting better. Fricking brilliant stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Just finished DARK season 2. Somehow this show keeps getting better. Fricking brilliant stuff.
For sale: One moderately defective grey tabby.
No warranty, no returns.
Priced to sell fast.
All sales are final.
No warranty, no returns.
Priced to sell fast.
All sales are final.
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For sale: One moderately defective grey tabby.
No warranty, no returns.
Priced to sell fast.
All sales are final.
No warranty, no returns.
Priced to sell fast.
All sales are final.
Just watched Train Dreams. Not a wasted word or shot. So sad and lovely.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Just watched Train Dreams. Not a wasted word or shot. So sad and lovely.
Even with the day job and lots of life stuff the first 15k of this new mg project has poured out in the last week or so.
Doing some manifesting - I have another series-sized story to tell and am hoping the universe will help me make it happen.
Doing some manifesting - I have another series-sized story to tell and am hoping the universe will help me make it happen.
November 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Even with the day job and lots of life stuff the first 15k of this new mg project has poured out in the last week or so.
Doing some manifesting - I have another series-sized story to tell and am hoping the universe will help me make it happen.
Doing some manifesting - I have another series-sized story to tell and am hoping the universe will help me make it happen.
Today I keep thinking about having a skeleton and especially a skull and it's kind of weirding me out. That is all.
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Today I keep thinking about having a skeleton and especially a skull and it's kind of weirding me out. That is all.
I...I think I plotted a book? Like it's a bare bones, drafty outline but still. A plan? Me?
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I...I think I plotted a book? Like it's a bare bones, drafty outline but still. A plan? Me?
UNNAMED BONES ARCs are here! Not showing you the cover because A) it isn't final and B) we might do a cover reveal.
Out July 21, 2026 from Union Square (Hachette).
From the jacket:
"I'VE BEEN FALLING AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. AND EVERY TIME I fall, It's DEEPER INTO THE GUTS OF SEEKER'S REST."
Out July 21, 2026 from Union Square (Hachette).
From the jacket:
"I'VE BEEN FALLING AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. AND EVERY TIME I fall, It's DEEPER INTO THE GUTS OF SEEKER'S REST."
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
UNNAMED BONES ARCs are here! Not showing you the cover because A) it isn't final and B) we might do a cover reveal.
Out July 21, 2026 from Union Square (Hachette).
From the jacket:
"I'VE BEEN FALLING AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. AND EVERY TIME I fall, It's DEEPER INTO THE GUTS OF SEEKER'S REST."
Out July 21, 2026 from Union Square (Hachette).
From the jacket:
"I'VE BEEN FALLING AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. AND EVERY TIME I fall, It's DEEPER INTO THE GUTS OF SEEKER'S REST."
I'm curious about “On the Calculation of Volume.” Have any of you read any of it? Thoughts? Trying to decide if I should pick up the first book.
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm curious about “On the Calculation of Volume.” Have any of you read any of it? Thoughts? Trying to decide if I should pick up the first book.
Um, we just made my 20 year old nephew watch The Usual Suspects. He had never seen it AND it hadn't been spoiled for him. Incredible.
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Um, we just made my 20 year old nephew watch The Usual Suspects. He had never seen it AND it hadn't been spoiled for him. Incredible.
My dear friend and illustrator of the Blight Harbor books, Alfredo Càceres, has a graphic novel coming next summer!
You can preorder THROUGH THE BLACK GATE now from your favorite local indie. 🖤
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Throug...
You can preorder THROUGH THE BLACK GATE now from your favorite local indie. 🖤
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Throug...
Through the Black Gate
A stunning middle grade graphic novel about an orphaned girl and a music-loving boy who venture into the land of the dead with the hope of seeing t...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My dear friend and illustrator of the Blight Harbor books, Alfredo Càceres, has a graphic novel coming next summer!
You can preorder THROUGH THE BLACK GATE now from your favorite local indie. 🖤
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Throug...
You can preorder THROUGH THE BLACK GATE now from your favorite local indie. 🖤
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Throug...
Got to meet David Sedaris last night. For some reason he asked me what I do and I got to tell him I'm an author who writes horror for kids. He had questions and I grinned like a fool. Oh - and I got my first edition/first printing of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk signed, too. 10/10 evening
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Got to meet David Sedaris last night. For some reason he asked me what I do and I got to tell him I'm an author who writes horror for kids. He had questions and I grinned like a fool. Oh - and I got my first edition/first printing of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk signed, too. 10/10 evening
This new story is just sort of falling out of my head. I know it's the honeymoon phase but it's so nice not to fight with a book. 🖤
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This new story is just sort of falling out of my head. I know it's the honeymoon phase but it's so nice not to fight with a book. 🖤
Last minute date with my sister and nephew tonight. So excited!
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Last minute date with my sister and nephew tonight. So excited!
Today I knocked out the first chapter of what I hope will be the first book in a new MG series.
Like Blight Harbor, the town of Edna's Keep is full of magic but that's where the similarities stop. This is a hard-luck town full of dirt and earth and kitchen magic.
Excited to get going on this one.🖤
Like Blight Harbor, the town of Edna's Keep is full of magic but that's where the similarities stop. This is a hard-luck town full of dirt and earth and kitchen magic.
Excited to get going on this one.🖤
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Today I knocked out the first chapter of what I hope will be the first book in a new MG series.
Like Blight Harbor, the town of Edna's Keep is full of magic but that's where the similarities stop. This is a hard-luck town full of dirt and earth and kitchen magic.
Excited to get going on this one.🖤
Like Blight Harbor, the town of Edna's Keep is full of magic but that's where the similarities stop. This is a hard-luck town full of dirt and earth and kitchen magic.
Excited to get going on this one.🖤
Only weeks late to the party I'm finally listening to the new Florence + The Machine album in its entirety.
I had to finish up a manuscript and move on to some new projects. Pretty sure it's going to be perfect for what I have up next. I promise the logic makes sense to me. :)
I had to finish up a manuscript and move on to some new projects. Pretty sure it's going to be perfect for what I have up next. I promise the logic makes sense to me. :)
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Only weeks late to the party I'm finally listening to the new Florence + The Machine album in its entirety.
I had to finish up a manuscript and move on to some new projects. Pretty sure it's going to be perfect for what I have up next. I promise the logic makes sense to me. :)
I had to finish up a manuscript and move on to some new projects. Pretty sure it's going to be perfect for what I have up next. I promise the logic makes sense to me. :)
Of course give credit where it's due but please know it isn't arrogant to own your accomplishments.
I get so tired of listening to artists and authors wave away their hard work and success. If we want to be taken seriously we have to take ourselves seriously.
(reminding myself and you)
I get so tired of listening to artists and authors wave away their hard work and success. If we want to be taken seriously we have to take ourselves seriously.
(reminding myself and you)
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Of course give credit where it's due but please know it isn't arrogant to own your accomplishments.
I get so tired of listening to artists and authors wave away their hard work and success. If we want to be taken seriously we have to take ourselves seriously.
(reminding myself and you)
I get so tired of listening to artists and authors wave away their hard work and success. If we want to be taken seriously we have to take ourselves seriously.
(reminding myself and you)
Well friends, that's a wrap on the fifth Blight Harbor book. This one might be called Dear Desdemona. We'll see. One more read though and clean up then it's off to my wonderful editor.
I'm excited to share this one with you in 2027.
Not sure what's next - time to start playing with new ideas. 🖤
I'm excited to share this one with you in 2027.
Not sure what's next - time to start playing with new ideas. 🖤
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Well friends, that's a wrap on the fifth Blight Harbor book. This one might be called Dear Desdemona. We'll see. One more read though and clean up then it's off to my wonderful editor.
I'm excited to share this one with you in 2027.
Not sure what's next - time to start playing with new ideas. 🖤
I'm excited to share this one with you in 2027.
Not sure what's next - time to start playing with new ideas. 🖤
Just watched the first episode of DARK.
Holy moly.
Holy moly.
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Just watched the first episode of DARK.
Holy moly.
Holy moly.
My 11 year old just called something "AI slop" with absolutely caustic disdain in their voice and that's how I know we're going to be okay.
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My 11 year old just called something "AI slop" with absolutely caustic disdain in their voice and that's how I know we're going to be okay.
Listen, all I'm saying is this fall feels darker than usual. No, I cannot explain. It's just true.
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Listen, all I'm saying is this fall feels darker than usual. No, I cannot explain. It's just true.
John Francis Murphy (1853-1921), "November"
November 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
John Francis Murphy (1853-1921), "November"
The interesting thing about not plotting my books is my girls are about to walk into a house and none of us know what they're going to find in there. It also means that what happens there today is likely different than what would happen if I wrote the same scene tomorrow. My process is chaos.
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The interesting thing about not plotting my books is my girls are about to walk into a house and none of us know what they're going to find in there. It also means that what happens there today is likely different than what would happen if I wrote the same scene tomorrow. My process is chaos.
Weird to think I'm writing the last few chapters of what is probably the last Blight Harbor book. Bittersweet for sure.
November 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Weird to think I'm writing the last few chapters of what is probably the last Blight Harbor book. Bittersweet for sure.