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) LoraSenfAuthor@gmail.com * LoraSenf.com

UK friends - UNNAMED BONES will be available at a bookstore near you on August 13. You know the drill about preorders being appreciated and supporting your favorite local indie. 🖤🖤🖤

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the @darkertimes.bsky.social subscriber drive rolls on! today, @annarosereads.bsky.social writes a lovely personal essay about depression and @lorasenf.bsky.social's newest novel

Darker Times@darkertimes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Horror books have the ability to cut to the bone & provoke reflections of the deepest kind. @annarosereads.bsky.social looks back on a moving reading experience in Motel of the Mind: Lora Senf's Unnamed Bones, Isolation, and the Hope of Survivalist Horror. www.darkertimes.com/motel-of-the...

Left stacks of signed books at my favorite local indie bookstores - Auntie's and Wishing Tree in Spokane, WA. They're wonderful and deserve all the love and they ship! 🖤

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UNNAMED BONES is out today. I'm really proud of this one and have my fingers crossed it will find its readers. This is my sixth book which feels both like so many and not enough - I came to writing late and I always feel a bit like I'm making up for lost time. 🖤

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Reminder for anyone with young readers: UNNAMED BONES is NOT middle grade. It might be totally fine for your kid but know it has violence, gore, swearing, and basically non-stop bad stuff. I think it's a lot of fun and your kid might too! I just want to manage expectations. It's out tomorrow. 🖤

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I don't make a habit of reading reviews. Both good and bad reviews get in my head too much and it's not good for me. But my publisher seems to have no such problem so they went and found these fab reviews of UNNAMED BONES. It's out this Tuesday if it sounds like your jam. 🖤

My family leaves for Croatia in less than a week (first international trip for the kids) and I have basically done nothing to get us ready. I'm sure it'll be fine.

I don't know why I'm telling you this but I didn't know Tom Holland was English until like two days ago. I cannot tell you how much crap I'm receiving in my house right now.

UNNAMED BONES is out one week from today so I asked my kids to take pictures of it for me. The Girl Child went full designer mode and included my back catalogue, relevant information, Bird, and a Clackity hand. The Boy Child went clean and simple. Preorders and library requests very appreciated.

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It's paperback release day for PENNIES-a Blight Harbor prequel-and my author copies just showed up on my porch. There's something special about this book for me. Maybe it's just that I love these four girls so much. Plus I'm super-extra in love with this cover by @redolaf.bsky.social and Karyn Lee

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Me again. One week until PENNIES - a Blight Harbor prequel - is out in paperback. Two weeks until UNNAMED BONES - ya survival cosmic horror - is out in hardcover and paperback. You can pre/order signed copies of these and all my titles from Auntie's and Wishing Tree Books in Spokane, WA. They ship!

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New habit I'm working on: Every time I debate sharing good news/an accomplishment/praise, I'm asking myself, "Would a man hesitate to share this?" The reluctance to "brag" is ingrained *deeply* and is very loud (and I know I'm speaking in gendered generalities and nothing is universal).

Excited to share that my adult debut is coming summer 2028. DEATH NO. 114 is something new from me but my hope is it's full of heart and weirdness and recognizably mine-just with more nastiness and violence and swears. I'll yell about it more soon but happy to have the announcement out in the world.

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Drafting a new project and I met this character who has stopped me in my tracks. They are so strange and interesting - and I know they belong in the story - but they won't tell me why they're here. Gah. I think I have to just keep writing and hope they'll explain themselves? Hastag writer problems.

Just wrapped up line edits on the fifth Blight Harbor book. The working title of this one was Bone Tree Grove - a callback to Pennies. But then I realized it should be called Dear Desdemona - a callback to The Clackity - and that just felt right. Dear Desdemona will be out summer '27. 🖤

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