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Rachel Howzell Hall
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OUT NOW: FOG & FURY. THE LAST ONE, the Good Morning America Book Club Pick for December. Coming soon: THE CRUEL DAWN. French Martini lover. Rep: Jill Marsal, @jillmarsal. Playing right now: FALLOUT 76. Find me also at www.rachelhowzell.com
One of my favorite types of announcements!
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)
September 11, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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Out today!
September 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
An insightful post from @andibartz.bsky.social...

No one told me what happens after you're a bestseller
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No one told me what happens after you're a bestseller
The weird psychic burden of peaking and crashing
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August 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I was THRILLED to talk to Black & Published about my journey and how it led me to writing FOG & FURY! Please check it out:

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Everyone Has a Mystery with Rachel Howzell Hall | MahoganyBooks Podcast Network - Our Stories, Our Voices, Our Way
This week on Black & Published Nikesha speaks with Rachel Howzell Hall , the author of the thriller Fog and Fury . The publication of this books marks...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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the youtube algo has been feeding me hbcu marching band videos and now I’ve watched this approximately 50 times in a row
August 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Apologies for a Substank link, but I promise double pinky swear this is worth it.

@nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social writing about Political Blackness in America, and Interracial Romance.
Tyla Flopped. The Black Diaspora Did Too.
How a Grammy winner’s crash-and-burn exposed our messiest Black love politics.
paynefultruth.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Join me tonight at @tombolobooks.bsky.social! I’ll be chatting with my pal Eli Cranor about his stellar new novel MISSISSIPPI BLUE 42. Whenever we get together we have so much to discuss - crime, football, writing life, books, creativity. See you at 7pm for a lively conversation and laughs!
August 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Like listening to your read? Pre-order the audio of THE CRUEL DAWN!

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RBmedia | The Cruel Dawn
Listen to the audiobook The Cruel Dawn, written by Rachel Howzell Hall, narrated by Tamika Katon-Donegal.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Wanna read an excerpt from THE CRUEL DAWN?

@reactorsff.bsky.social has one up right now! Go on over and read!

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Read an Excerpt From The Cruel Dawn by Rachel Howzell Hall - Reactor
A sweeping romantasy where gods bleed, realms fall, and one woman stands between salvation and ruin.
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August 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
And I read the sample pages and AWESOME, @booksbydlwhite.com. Clickety-click!
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Had fun talking with Nick K for Crime Reads (which dug up Baby's First Author Photo for the illustration).

Ending quote:
July 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This is the best thing you'll see today, and I say that as a person who wrote something awesome today and does not lack for confidence.
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.
July 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Payback got a very nice review in the LA Times.
Review: Messy L.A. millennial plots deliverance from her student loan debt in 'The Payback'
The former 'Daily Show With Trevor Noah' writer takes aim at a vexing problem — student loan debt — in 'The Payback,' a female-driven satire set in L.A.
www.latimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I was thrilled to talk with David and @thethrillerzone.bsky.social about Fog and Fury, writing and surviving!

Please check it out!

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RACHEL HALL SHOW
YouTube video by The Thriller Zone
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July 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It's my book birthday!

FOG AND FURY is officially published today, and I'm so excited that everyone will now get to meet Sonny Rush, P.I. I hope y'all love her like I do!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8LKRQ3K
Fog and Fury (Haven Thrillers Book 1)
Amazon.com: Fog and Fury (Haven Thrillers Book 1) eBook : Howzell Hall, Rachel: Kindle Store
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July 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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For generations, Gullah Geechee families on St. Helena Island buried loved ones in the Big House Cemetery.

For a year, private landowners have blocked them visiting and burying their loved ones in the cemetery.

Now, the residents are suing.

NEW: capitalbnews.org/gullah-geech...
South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee Are Denied Their Right to Bury Their Loved Ones
For a year, residents on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, have been blocked from their ancestral cemetery by gates erected by property owners.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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If you haven’t heard of Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove… you have now.

When she stepped out from the back without missing a beat, I knew it was on🔥
@kamlager-dove.house.gov
June 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Happy book birthday, @blacktopkid.bsky.social! Can't wait to dig into KING OF ASHES!
June 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
NOT NOW, EARTHQUAKE, NOT NOW.
June 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Oh, Los Angeles.

Shaped by the Fates: the 405, the 101, the 10 and the 110. Forged by the elements: brush fires, Santa Ana winds, earthquakes and now, ICE.

You are my heart...
June 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Because the Black lady’s laugh was too much, right?
June 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM