Leanna Renee Hieber
@leannareneehieber.bsky.social
Gothic novelist + ghost-filled non-fiction celebrating women's history. Actress. Goth. Narrator. Playwright. NYC Ghost Tour Guide. A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (USA Today Bestseller, Kensington), STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Tor)
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We're on the front table at The @strandbookstore.bsky.social, NYC! 2 Signed Copies now available! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION examines real, haunted history through the lens of Gothic Literature! An "Instant USA Today Bestseller!" 🖤👻🖤
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Adding to this thread: new listings! I know it's been a rough year for everyone, my family included (just hit w/ 2k medical + car bill, so we're scrambling). If Gothy / Neo-Victorian / Vintage / Steampunky things sound cool, check out torchandarrow.etsy.com, your support is so dearly appreciated 🖤
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Adding to this thread: new listings! I know it's been a rough year for everyone, my family included (just hit w/ 2k medical + car bill, so we're scrambling). If Gothy / Neo-Victorian / Vintage / Steampunky things sound cool, check out torchandarrow.etsy.com, your support is so dearly appreciated 🖤
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If anyone, especially my fellow @hwany.org members, needs access to the above works for voting purposes (both are available across retailers in a variety of formats), but please do let me know, appreciate your ongoing support for my heartfelt, ghost-filled works more than I can say. 🖤👻
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If anyone, especially my fellow @hwany.org members, needs access to the above works for voting purposes (both are available across retailers in a variety of formats), but please do let me know, appreciate your ongoing support for my heartfelt, ghost-filled works more than I can say. 🖤👻
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2025 Awards Eligibility! 🖤
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
bookshop.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
2025 Awards Eligibility! 🖤
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
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Which is where this new call for some of the best public scholarship from 2025 comes in! Please share nominations, including your own work of course, for writing, podcast episodes, public scholarly pieces of all kinds for our year-end thread. 🗃️
bsky.app/profile/amer...
bsky.app/profile/amer...
As I work on finalizing the upcoming #ScholarSunday thread, we're also going to be collecting public scholarship from across 2025 for a year-end mega-thread. Check out the call & submit favorites (including your own work!) for inclusion in that thread, thanks! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/
blackwhiteandread.com/announcements/
Announcements
If you have a talk coming up, a book on its way, a podcast trailer to drop, or an accomplishment to celebrate, we want to help you share it!
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November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Which is where this new call for some of the best public scholarship from 2025 comes in! Please share nominations, including your own work of course, for writing, podcast episodes, public scholarly pieces of all kinds for our year-end thread. 🗃️
bsky.app/profile/amer...
bsky.app/profile/amer...
2025 Awards Eligibility! 🖤
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
bookshop.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
2025 Awards Eligibility! 🖤
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
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This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
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It’s #FridayReads time! Books make great gifts and are tastier than turkey. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of monsters, friendship, love, magic, revenge, ghosts, storms, syncretism, and maybe a bit of violence…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It’s #FridayReads time! Books make great gifts and are tastier than turkey. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of monsters, friendship, love, magic, revenge, ghosts, storms, syncretism, and maybe a bit of violence…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.
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Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.
Denver! Check it out! My sister's inclusive, wonderful, community-minded brewery is hosting a fabulous dinner next week. Her business has *really* been hurting due to tariff issues on aluminum among a host of other setbacks, so your support is *particularly* helpful right now!
She brews GREAT beer!
She brews GREAT beer!
Pulling together a last-minute community potluck w/ Perifery Kitchen! Pay-what-you-can! Everything easy to pack up & take home. These are heavy times for so many of us. We want to offer a space where folks can land, share warm food & feel held by community. Join us 11/25, 2-9. You’re welcome here. 💛
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Denver! Check it out! My sister's inclusive, wonderful, community-minded brewery is hosting a fabulous dinner next week. Her business has *really* been hurting due to tariff issues on aluminum among a host of other setbacks, so your support is *particularly* helpful right now!
She brews GREAT beer!
She brews GREAT beer!
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
GOTHIC FONT, LETS GO, BENOIT BLANC RUNNING FROM A CASTLE IN HIS NIGHTGOWN, I AM SO READY, @rianjohnson.bsky.social, I AM LIGHTING THE CANDELABRA AS WE SPEAK-
First poster for Benoit Blanc in ‘WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY’
Read our review: bit.ly/KnivesDF
Read our review: bit.ly/KnivesDF
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
GOTHIC FONT, LETS GO, BENOIT BLANC RUNNING FROM A CASTLE IN HIS NIGHTGOWN, I AM SO READY, @rianjohnson.bsky.social, I AM LIGHTING THE CANDELABRA AS WE SPEAK-
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Hey you can support some trans folks on the Trans Day of Remembrance!
Donate to the Trans Lifeline if you can. Or to someone's gofundme. It's a rough time out there.
translifeline.org
Donate to the Trans Lifeline if you can. Or to someone's gofundme. It's a rough time out there.
translifeline.org
Home - Trans Lifeline
Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for
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November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Hey you can support some trans folks on the Trans Day of Remembrance!
Donate to the Trans Lifeline if you can. Or to someone's gofundme. It's a rough time out there.
translifeline.org
Donate to the Trans Lifeline if you can. Or to someone's gofundme. It's a rough time out there.
translifeline.org
Seattle friends! Go see beloved @overtherhine.bsky.social!
All my Seattle people are goth, so here, I made a guide:
psychopomp.com/a-goths-guid...
Over the Rhine's live shows are TRANSCENDENT. Warms your soul on the coldest nights. I'd be there if I wasn't across the country; go in my stead! 🖤
All my Seattle people are goth, so here, I made a guide:
psychopomp.com/a-goths-guid...
Over the Rhine's live shows are TRANSCENDENT. Warms your soul on the coldest nights. I'd be there if I wasn't across the country; go in my stead! 🖤
And now Seattle, it’s all about you. Two nights at The Triple Door. Come out, have dinner, order up a fave beverage, sit back and we’ll let the songs take care of the rest. Hope to see you. L&K
November 20 Seattle, WA ~ The Triple Door
November 21 Seattle, WA ~ The Triple Door
November 20 Seattle, WA ~ The Triple Door
November 21 Seattle, WA ~ The Triple Door
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Seattle friends! Go see beloved @overtherhine.bsky.social!
All my Seattle people are goth, so here, I made a guide:
psychopomp.com/a-goths-guid...
Over the Rhine's live shows are TRANSCENDENT. Warms your soul on the coldest nights. I'd be there if I wasn't across the country; go in my stead! 🖤
All my Seattle people are goth, so here, I made a guide:
psychopomp.com/a-goths-guid...
Over the Rhine's live shows are TRANSCENDENT. Warms your soul on the coldest nights. I'd be there if I wasn't across the country; go in my stead! 🖤
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Today's a great day to support some creators.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Today's a great day to support some creators.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
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On Trans Day of Remembrance, I'm resharing this great page from @lgbtqreads.bsky.social. Use it to find #mglit with trans main characters: lgbtqreads.com/middle-grade/
Then, add those titles to your TBR or give them as gifts. Books create empathy, and we could sure use more of that these days. ❤️🏳️⚧️
Then, add those titles to your TBR or give them as gifts. Books create empathy, and we could sure use more of that these days. ❤️🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On Trans Day of Remembrance, I'm resharing this great page from @lgbtqreads.bsky.social. Use it to find #mglit with trans main characters: lgbtqreads.com/middle-grade/
Then, add those titles to your TBR or give them as gifts. Books create empathy, and we could sure use more of that these days. ❤️🏳️⚧️
Then, add those titles to your TBR or give them as gifts. Books create empathy, and we could sure use more of that these days. ❤️🏳️⚧️
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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WISHBONE WISHBONE WISHBONE
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
WISHBONE WISHBONE WISHBONE
Cleansing the timeline from bad Wuthering Heights takes that are, unfortunately, coming directly from the people making Wuthering Heights, when we should be talking about the best historical adaptation casting choice of our lifetime and that is:
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Cleansing the timeline from bad Wuthering Heights takes that are, unfortunately, coming directly from the people making Wuthering Heights, when we should be talking about the best historical adaptation casting choice of our lifetime and that is:
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I think I can make what I have in the cupboard last until my disability comes in at the end of the month but it will mean one or two meals a day. If you’d like to help out with that, I’d appreciate it. #MutualAid ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman/
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November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I think I can make what I have in the cupboard last until my disability comes in at the end of the month but it will mean one or two meals a day. If you’d like to help out with that, I’d appreciate it. #MutualAid ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman/
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Wondering if the #kidlit community can point me towards more recent bilingual English-Spanish picture books? Our school library has some older ones, but I’d like to refresh it for the kids who’d benefit.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Wondering if the #kidlit community can point me towards more recent bilingual English-Spanish picture books? Our school library has some older ones, but I’d like to refresh it for the kids who’d benefit.
The only way I could think about this without losing my whole mind was to think of Miss Piggy in A Muppet Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit. So I've been crowing "AND I'M GOING TO RAISE YOU RIGHT OFF THE PAVEMENT" since it happened.
November 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The only way I could think about this without losing my whole mind was to think of Miss Piggy in A Muppet Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit. So I've been crowing "AND I'M GOING TO RAISE YOU RIGHT OFF THE PAVEMENT" since it happened.
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haven't asked in awhile. what's something you read lately that you loved? A book? An article? A poem? A message written across the sky composed entirely of crows?
for every hate read post you do you gotta share 5 things you liked at least bsky.app/profile/crai...
it's always writing y'all hate that travels furthest and fastest here, same as anywhere else
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
haven't asked in awhile. what's something you read lately that you loved? A book? An article? A poem? A message written across the sky composed entirely of crows?
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Independent bookstores rallying behind our non-fiction examinations of women's history & Gothic literature through ghost lore have been SO vital for our work! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC &/or A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN make great gifts! bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Independent bookstores rallying behind our non-fiction examinations of women's history & Gothic literature through ghost lore have been SO vital for our work! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC &/or A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN make great gifts! bookshop.org/p/books/amer...