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📚author💀HWA😴 narcolepsy 🩷💜💙she/her. 👀 (Gallery, ‘26) HER WICKED ROOTS (Gallery, ‘25) CICADA (Shortwave, ‘24) Rep’d by Marcy Posner @ Folio & Folio Jr. Film rep Rich Green

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · Jan 28

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There is a house
There is a garden
There is a secret
You mustn’t know

There are sisters
Who tend the garden
And what is reaped
Must first be sown
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Cover of forthcoming Gothic novel by Tanya Pell, HER WICKED ROOTS. A hand rises from green foliage and purple flowers. The hand has attributes of a flower/mushroom.

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 11h

What if I did a title reveal this week?

WHAT IF?!

💅💋🔪💄💀🥔👠🎀⚰️

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Mackenzie Hurlbert @kenziethewordnerd.bsky.social · 14h

Happy to brighten your feed with another recent horror read on this rainy Tuesday: Her Wicked Roots by @tanyapell.bsky.social came out earlier this month, and I highly recommend picking up a copy! I couldn't put down this twisty tale of mystery, romance, and horror 🌱

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 11h

AHHHH! Thank you!!!!

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t have words for the kind of evil this is.
That poor baby and his poor mother.

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 2d

“You don’t look like a horror author.”

“I don’t look like a serial killer either.”

“What?”

“What?”

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 5d

Yesssssss

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 5d

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 5d

Ruined it!

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 6d

Listen.

I am a narcoleptic with SEVERE sleep paralysis and hallucinations.

But I haven’t had a nightmare about a book or movie since I was a kid.

@sgj.bsky.social ruined my streak with The Babysitter Lives.

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 6d

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 7d

I WAS TOO DEEP INTO CHICAGO

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

Joke was on Marcy. I was already watching the news on Chicago so…

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 7d

JOKE’S ON YOU, MARCY! I WAS ALREADY IN CRISIS MODE

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 7d

I appreciate that my agent called me and suggested gently not to doomscroll on my book launch day because she knows I will go into crisis mode.

Her call came too late, however.

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 7d

Happy release day to @tanyapell.bsky.social and this eerie and gorgeous novel bursting with mystery and sensual atmosphere. 🎉🖤

I loved it, and I hope everyone picks up a copy. 🩸📚💙

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · Jan 28

🥀
There is a house
There is a garden
There is a secret
You mustn’t know

There are sisters
Who tend the garden
And what is reaped
Must first be sown
🥀

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 7d

THANK YOU!!!!!

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to see this display of spooky MG at @barnesandnoble.com

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 8d

One of my favorite reviewers doing such a kind review!!!! 🖤

George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 8d

“Her Wicked Roots,” by @tanyapell.bsky.social is a full-blooded and enchanting gothic, that much like some of the flora it features, is beautiful and lethal in equal measure. OCT 7TH from Gallery Books.

Review: Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell | FanFiAddict

Synopsis: Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate t ...

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 10d

My book releases this week and all I feel is angry at the state of things.

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations!!!!

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 10d

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 10d

So, curious…

How many people have to disappear w/o warrants before the people we elect to do something actually do something?

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 12d

Soon you will have the urge to tell children about how it was back in your day!!!!

Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 12d

👀👀👀👀👀👀

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12d

the October horror shopping list is live! feat. new books from @tanyapell.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @jennykiefer.com @richardkadrey.bsky.social @emotrophywife.bsky.social @carsonfaust.bsky.social @johnhornor.bsky.social @zefrrr.bsky.social @talkscaredpod.bsky.social & many more!

All the New Horror Books Coming in October 2025

October 2025’s new horror books, featuring titles from Joe Hill, Neil McRobert, Jewelle Gomez, Gemma Files, Caitlin Starling, Jenny Kiefer, Richard Kadrey, Tanya Pell, Brian Asman, Nuzo Onoh,…

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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · 12d

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Capes and Tights @capesandtights.com · 12d

Tanya Pell cultivates a world that is both beautiful and unnerving in Her Wicked Roots, a gothic novel that blends horror, mystery, and queer romance into one darkly enchanting read.

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Her Wicked Roots Review: Queen Romance Twisted in Thorns and Shadows

Tanya Pell cultivates a world that is beautiful and unnerving in Her Wicked Roots, blending horror, mystery, queer romance into an enchanting read.

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