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Sonora Taylor

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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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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today's the day! ALL THE PIECES COMING TOGETHER: COLLECTED WORKS is now available wherever book are sold!

Manta Press: www.mantapress.com/product-page...

Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-the-pi...

Cover for ALL THE PIECES COMING TOGETHER: COLLECTED WORKS by Sonora Taylor. Features a blue skull with golden bleeding eyes.

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 1h

Through today, @bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING! You can get a lot of my books from them, including my latest, ALL THE PIECES COMING TOGETHER. bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14h

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 16h

not sure i’m a fan of players wearing jerseys with their name on the back. everyone can see it but you. i guess if you forget your name you’re just out of luck out there, huh

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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 18h

Trump has spent all year attacking Virginia’s economy and workforce.

Now, he’s threatening to use the government shutdown to fire even more Virginians — and Winsome Earle-Sears still refuses to stand up to the President.

Virginians deserve better.

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 1d

I guarantee you she was a fan of THE NEWSROOM.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 1d

WOW WOW WOW 🌕💫
Readers captured stunning views of Monday’s Harvest Supermoon — glowing above D.C.’s monuments, the Bay, and countryside scenes in Md and Va.
See our favorites here 👇 and more at cwg.live

Photos by Martin Radigan, David Enzel and Thomas Cluderay

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Lydia Prime @lydiaprime.bsky.social · 1d

PRETEND YOU DON’T SEE HER: The Invisible Woman (2025 Kandisha Press Women of Horror Anthology

WISHING A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TODAY’S FEATURED AUTHOR!
ALLISON CELLURA

“Remote Control”

ORDER HERE: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRGH4FF3/
#booktok #horrorbooksarethebest #darkfiction

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SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 2d

Ok now what the hell did Taylor Swift mean by she's not a bad bitch and this isn't savage????????? 🤨

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 2d

FULL MOON SPOOKY SEASON TREAT!

If you never read HAIRSPRAY AND SWITCHBLADES
you can read the reprint for FREE - limited time
bit.ly/4lNvWov

Jaguar Nights

Amazon.com: Jaguar Nights eBook : Castro, V: Kindle Store

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

NYCC this Sunday, October 12!
Join me, @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, and @delilahsdawson.bsky.social to talk transgressive horror!

We'll also be signing books in Hall 1A afterwards 🤩

New York Comic con, October 9 through 12, 2025

Crossing Thresholds: The Rise of Transgressive Horror
Sunday, October 12, 2025
North-Room 406.3
Join authors Eric LaRocca, Hailey Piper, and Clay McLeod Chapman as they take you on a journey into the heart of transgressive, LGBTQ+ horror fiction. Discover how their bold and fearless narratives
Guests: Hailey Piper, Clay McLeod Chapman, Delilah Dawson, Eric LaRocca

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Aug 1

Deskilling is real.

This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.

Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jul 31

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work

Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 6d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

tenebrouspress.com

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 2d

life saving station museum sign, ocean city, maryland, 1985

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 3d

🎃 October 5 🎃
I dunno, he said he wanted to be a cheesehead 🤷🏻‍♀️

Large tortoise with a cheese hat like Packers fans wear. It's just a wedge of cheese. It's the color of American cheese but has holes like Swiss cheese. Honestly I don't get any of this.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 3d

"Juan" traveled from CA to harvest blueberries in OR. "The fields are in bad condition-so overgrown I can barely walk. I was to get paid 40 cents/lb, but the labor contractor who brought us here doesn't want to pay us sometimes. I'm not protected by a union contract." #WeFeedYou

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

AI at its peak.

Jude Law as a sexbot in AI: Artificial Intelligence

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 3d

So at noon-ish I’m doing a book signing here at the James River Writers Conference and I’m feeling like I need to liberate these copies of Acquired Taste, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes and Ghost Eaters… Run, books! Run! @jamesriverwriters.bsky.social #jrw2025 #jamesriverwriters

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 3d

Can't even say "shiver me timbers" or call your coworkers "landlubbers" any more without people making all kinds of assumptions about you

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

I'm so sorry.

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus that GIF

Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

My thought is, if I think they're a drag when I'm reading their sections, the readers definitely will. The thought of removing them has me excited to work on the manuscript again.

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

name: sonora
current read: spread me
last show: GBBO
last film: wicked (the crappy thriller with Julia Stiles, not the musical)
fav book this year: dream hotel by laila lailani
fav watch this year: together

+ something spooky:

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 5d

HUGE NEWS DAY!

We have a new @egallagher.bsky.social SPLIT SCREAM cover to share!

(In lesser news, there's a new T-Swift album! And that is literally all the news.)

Anyway! SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES! Featuring novelettes from @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social

April 2026🖤☠️

Cover art: the two illustrations feature a foreboding, wildly framed mirror and a human silhouette in the reflection; and two hands clutching a mysterious organic, vaguely heart-like mass; plus a blurb from M.Shaw.

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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for sharing!