So excited to read with these authors TONIGHT!

This is a lesson I learned as a preteen, listening to Soviet refuseniks talk about how they survived until they were allowed to leave the country. You make art, you make joy, and you fight. Because those three things are the same thing.

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Hey, that’s me!

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Conversely, this could help inform you of where to set a nice plate of treats or other small offering for them to enjoy! 🫖 #witchsky

So excited to be joining Strong Women Strange Worlds next month!

The witch may walk the wood intending to brood, but she will often learn that the wood has other ideas for her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Dawn

That last line just sings.

That last line just sings.

I struck eBay gold and managed to get an almost complete run of Morbid Curiosity + a bunch of the promo mailers! CC: @morbidloren.bsky.social the first issue still eludes me…

Especially for indie authors & publishers, good word of mouth does more than *any amount of promotion an author can do.* Your words about their words are materially valuable.

5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: 1. Blue whales 2. Black bear 3. Mojave rattlesnake 4. Tule elk 5. Elephant seals

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY for my book drive and I’d love to go out with a bang! For every book sold, I'll donate $1 to AFAC, my local food bank. Ebooks, paperbacks, and signed copies all count. Please share! sonorataylor.square.site #booksky

Love this thread!

A bunch of writer friends are noting that they have not used LLMs to write. Me either, absolutely not. I feel like we need to stop asking kids what they want to BE when they grow up and start asking them what they want to DO. Because: I am not here to BE A WRITER, I am here to WRITE.

Never have. Never will. Not interested in going anywhere *near* a crap app built out of countless millions of hard-won words stolen from my colleagues, the use of which will (bonus!) begin progressively to degrade my cognitive skills and blunt the edge of the tool I’ve spent half a century honing. 🤨

It’s 4:15. Time to turn on the lights.

This night was so much fun!

Jane Yolen wrote me yesterday with a marketing plan for my new book!

Not sure I want an extra hour.

The other readers at the HWA event are @writerofweird.bsky.social @morbidloren.bsky.social @fredwiehe.bsky.social @jonathan-fortin.bsky.social & @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social Come join us for a spooky good time!

I need to get my hands on these cards.

Not all crooked trees are bent with age. Some lean over to tell secrets, if only we would listen. Secrets only the owls know.

Cemetery lovers! I'm joining authors Amy Shea (Too Poor to Die) and Beth Winegarner (San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries) to talk about our cemetery books at the lovely old San Francisco Columbarium this Thursday night. Register for a free ticket at eventbrite. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-tou...

Cemeteries + travel, what could be better? Last day! Enter to win an ebook of my new cemetery memoir, Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

It's October! We're all wearing our SpOoKy hats now, right? Right? #SpookyHats

Had the honor of being on a death care in science fiction panel with @morbidloren.bsky.social at FOGcon a lifetime ago; this event looks great!

SF Bay Area Horror fans! I’m going to be reading with other members of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social on October 25! www.litquake.org/litcrawl for more details!

Do you like cemeteries? Are you on Goodreads? Enter to win an ebook of my cemetery memoir Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel on Goodreads! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Important info on scams for authors here.

A friend writes: I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI" instead of "I don't believe you." Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight." Kid: "That's AI."

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Hope something good happens to you today.

You could hardly find a more on-brand October event: Me, Amy Shea and @morbidloren.bsky.social at the SF Columbarium on Oct. 16. Registration link below! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-tou...

Great jumping Joshua. This is an absolutely killer line-up (no pun intended.)

Too Poor to Die Free online book seminar with Amy Shea Still time to sign up, one week to go!

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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My latest for @newrepublic.com: I went back to Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning 1974 book “The Denial of Death” to see if it had insights in an age of AI, nightmare tech bros, and the return of Trump in the wake of Covid-19. Turns out it does, though not in the way Becker quite foresaw:

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

If you've been wanting to read a chapter from "San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries," now's your chance. "Historians aren’t certain how many graves remain at City Cemetery. Researcher Alex Ryder believes it’s at least 10,000 but is probably closer to 20,000 or more."

“I watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain’t gave a bitch a poison apple yet” is art and belongs in the Louvre

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Filling a form on how many of my books LibGen contains so that other people could train AI on it without my consent is a whole mood

Maps used to be so much better in the old days, because they would show you where the monsters are. Now, we have to stumble upon them ourselves.