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Locked Out

Posted on December 4, 2022 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

I came home from running the other day and my key wouldn’t work in the building door. Everyone’s gone through that first moment when the key doesn’t turn. You jiggle it, pull it out, confirm that it is–yes–the right key,…

Tagged with: author, real world, writing
Posted in Blog, My Life

Come Taste a Dark God

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

I am a slave to desires not mine. Powers hold me in thrall and demand I obey. I do not obey. Lol OKAAAAAY. So. What Drama Sonya meant to say with those lines is that the goddess of the anthology…

Tagged with: author, characters, fantasy, writing
Posted in Blog, Stories

These Wicked Things will Slink Out

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

Did you know I used to write smut? Erm. Well, it’s coming out under a pen name that we will pretend does not exist (for purposes of retaining respect with my mother and the rest of my family…). [Mom, don’t…

Tagged with: author, dark romance, Dulcet Darkly, fantasy, writing
Posted in Blog, Stories

The Bittersweet, Tragic, and Depraved Love Lives of Villains

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

You ever wonder about the villain’s side of a story? Why they did what they did and if they were truly depraved or just broken, and if anyone ever loved them at all? Well, an anthology is coming out to…

Tagged with: author, books, dark, fantasy, love, villains
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No Darkness Today

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

This week, the darkness is on haitus. You get a lucky escape. And rather than a book review, you get pictures of Prague from my walk home from my swing dance class. Because occasionally I’m in a social mood–only, since…

Tagged with: author, fantasy, Prague, real world
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The Dark and Crazy Writer

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Sonya Lano — 3 Comments

Her spirit was the wrong shape: she never quite managed to squeeze it into the puzzle of her world, where she never belonged–never fit. She looked fine, sure, even pretty in all that diffuse light at royal dances, under fiery…

Tagged with: author, love, mental illness, real world
Posted in Blog, My Life

Battles of Salt and Sighs – OR – let’s define ‘dark romance’

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

Come, child, on a journey with me through a dark place, and let us define how dark literature fits in our dark world, and along the way, maybe we can define more what dark romance and dark romantic fantasy is…

Tagged with: author, characters, fantasy
Posted in Blog, Interviews

So Much Torture

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Sonya Lano — 3 Comments

“I am so glad I get to write so much torture today,” Rain Sivertsen pronounced while sweeping into a meeting room on the cusp of a new writing day, her face aglow as she faced the other unsuspecting writers in…

Tagged with: author, dark fantasy, fantasy, why write dark fantasy, writing
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What I’m working on in 2016

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

Anyone curious about what I’m working on this year? Here are the chosen books below plus descriptions and excerpts. In mostly alphabetical order. As to which order I’ll finish them in, I’m not sure, but probably: In this Ruined City…

Blog Hop!

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

Alright, I’m closing out the year with a recap of the year as part of an Author Blog Hop. So let’s see what comes out… What happened to me in 2013: Not much. I got a job! I wrote a…

Tagged with: author, cats, Heiress of Healing, pathetic personal life, writing
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