Loren Rhoads
@morbidloren.bsky.social
No rest for the morbid! Still Wish You Were Here, 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, Death's Garden Revisited, This Morbid Life: Essays, Lost Angels, & Unsafe Words: Stories. she/her
5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
1. Blue whales
2. Black bear
3. Mojave rattlesnake
4. Tule elk
5. Elephant seals
1. Blue whales
2. Black bear
3. Mojave rattlesnake
4. Tule elk
5. Elephant seals
5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Reindeer
2. Grizzly bear
3. Moose
4. Steller sea lion
5. Ravens
1. Reindeer
2. Grizzly bear
3. Moose
4. Steller sea lion
5. Ravens
5 animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Moose (including one swimming)
2. Bald eagle (including one swimming)
3. Black bear (not swimming)
4. Beaver (obviously swimming)
5. Osprey(s) (diving but not swimming)
1. Moose (including one swimming)
2. Bald eagle (including one swimming)
3. Black bear (not swimming)
4. Beaver (obviously swimming)
5. Osprey(s) (diving but not swimming)
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
1. Blue whales
2. Black bear
3. Mojave rattlesnake
4. Tule elk
5. Elephant seals
1. Blue whales
2. Black bear
3. Mojave rattlesnake
4. Tule elk
5. Elephant seals
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🚨 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
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November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🚨 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!
Today marks the UK release* of @tkingfisher.com's latest book Snake-Eater, which (depending on how you define it) is her 50th book of fiction! In honor of this milestone I wanted to do a little retrospective of her 50 books
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Love this thread!
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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.
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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.
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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. 🤨
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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. 🤨
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November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It’s 4:15. Time to turn on the lights.
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It’s 4:15. Time to turn on the lights.
This night was so much fun!
Photos from the amazing HWA Bay Area chapter's LitQuake reading at Silver Sprocket! I highly recommend checking this comic shop out next time you're in SF. With @morbidloren.bsky.social, @benmonroe.com, @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social, @writerofweird.bsky.social, & @fredwiehe.bsky.social!
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This night was so much fun!
Jane Yolen wrote me yesterday with a marketing plan for my new book!
In case you're wondering if that book review offer or marketing pitch or friendly message from a well-known author are genuine (the short version: probably not)...my collection of blog posts on the new Nigerian marketing scams will help you decide writerbeware.blog/tag/nigeria/
Nigerian scams Archives - Writer Beware
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October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Jane Yolen wrote me yesterday with a marketing plan for my new book!
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Not sure I want an extra hour.
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Not sure I want an extra hour.
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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!
Come join us for a spooky good time!
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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!
Come join us for a spooky good time!
I need to get my hands on these cards.
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I need to get my hands on these cards.
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Not all crooked trees are bent with age.
Some lean over to tell secrets, if only we would listen.
Secrets only the owls know.
Some lean over to tell secrets, if only we would listen.
Secrets only the owls know.
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Not all crooked trees are bent with age.
Some lean over to tell secrets, if only we would listen.
Secrets only the owls know.
Some lean over to tell secrets, if only we would listen.
Secrets only the owls know.
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Pacific Ocean, sunset. 🌅
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Pacific Ocean, sunset. 🌅
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...
October 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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...
Book giveaway for Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025
Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025. I'm giving away 100 ebook copies of my new cemetery memoir, Still...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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...
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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
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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
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October 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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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!
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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!
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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!
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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!
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Book giveaway for Still Wish You Were Here: More Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025
Enter to win one of 100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 30-Oct 12, 2025. I'm giving away 100 ebook copies of my new cemetery memoir, Still...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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...
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Important info on scams for authors here.
My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...
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Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Important info on scams for authors here.
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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."
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."
September 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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."
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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Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...
Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations th...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...
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Hope something good happens to you today.
September 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hope something good happens to you today.