Shannon Sanders

Shannon Sanders

@shanders.bsky.social

THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her

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Shannon Sanders
@shanders.bsky.social

Boosting this ask by my Spelman friend and fellow writer, who is in a true moment of need and will repay the world many times over with her humanitarian work and her art. I’m donating right now!

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Shannon Sanders
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I’ve made it this far without watching The Good Place but unfortunately I do know how season 1 ends. Is it still worth it? (I’m about three episodes in and so far find it somewhat tedious but have heard many good things)

Shannon Sanders
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I’ve been doing podcast interviews and the last question is always “Are you working on anything new?” Welp, I’m doing this podcast on my lunch break from my day job instead of eating lunch because it’s the only kid-free, work-free time I have all day, does it seem like I’m working on anything new 😩

Shannon Sanders
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One should not fret too much about being reviewed, of course, but I do think it’s ok to celebrate the triumph of being closely read and understood. I’m super tickled 🥰

Shannon Sanders
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What a thoughtful, thorough, beautiful review!! Thank you so much to Elisabeth of @whoevenreads.bsky.social 🥰🥰

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social

It’s Friday! Let the first thing you read this weekend be our review of The Great Wherever by @shanders.bsky.social! This book has everything: ghosts, humor, hot goss, the endurance of Black culture and history down the ancestral line, etc. etc. 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/better-than-...

whoevenreads.comReview: Shannon Sanders' The Great Wherever | Who Even ReadsThe Great Wherever centers the pleasures of reading and stories, the pleasures that family and community can create and preserve, and the ordinary, apparently forever-tempting pleasures of messy human...
Shannon Sanders
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Not naming names, but someone who lives in the same house as me just complained that he accidentally overheard a spoiler for the end of the book I finished writing two years ago, numerous finished copies of which have been stacked all around said house for more than seven months now 🙃

Shannon Sanders
@shanders.bsky.social

One thing you can set your watch to as a working mom is that if anyone ever bothers to say “Hey, are you doing ok? You seem like you have too much on your plate” it is GUARANTEED it’s because they need you to be more available to *them*

Shannon Sanders
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The Great Wherever, along with Daniel Mason’s County People, is an NPR Book of the Day! I got to interview with the lovely Scott Simon and you can listen here. www.npr.org/2026/07/24/n...

npr.orgIn 'The Great Wherever' and 'Country People,' city dwellers try out rural life : NPR's Book of the DayIn two new novels, city folk are thrown into life in the country. The Great Wherever is a multigenerational story told through ghosts. A woman living in Washington, D.C. learns she’s inherited her fat...

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50 pages left in @shanders.bsky.social The Great Wherever and I have to be up in 5 hours…..so of course I’m going to stay up and finish it. Beautifully haunting story about family, legacy, and what draws the lost back.

Shannon Sanders
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Loved Amy’s smart, thoughtful questions! And you can get the book here:

bookshop.orgThe Great Wherever: A NovelNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2026 by NPR, People, Oprah Daily, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country, Esquire, The New York Post, The Boston Globe, WGBH, Real Simple, The Root, Our Culture, Wom...
Amy Colleen@amycolleen.bsky.social

"Have you ever read a book that felt like a warm, drowsy summer afternoon... A part of you transported back to your own childhood and the enrapture of an immersive story, and another part vaguely aware that you need to get dinner started, but you cannot put the book down?" medium.com/p/2fb4ff6b5a42

medium.comAn interview with Shannon Sanders, author of THE GREAT WHEREVERAnd a brief review of the debut novel, out now wherever books are sold.
Shannon Sanders
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Since posting this 16 hours ago, I’ve gotten four more, including one by a scammer impersonating one of the same people who supposedly emailed me yesterday, but from a different address

Shannon Sanders@shanders.bsky.social

If I had to pick the one thing that has changed most in my life since publishing my debut novel a week ago, it is that the number of AI-generated scam emails I receive on a daily basis, the ones that stroke my ego and then coyly ask me for money, has quite literally octupled

Shannon Sanders
@shanders.bsky.social

If I had to pick the one thing that has changed most in my life since publishing my debut novel a week ago, it is that the number of AI-generated scam emails I receive on a daily basis, the ones that stroke my ego and then coyly ask me for money, has quite literally octupled

Shannon Sanders
@shanders.bsky.social

An INCREDIBLY thorough and thoughtful review!!

Henry Holt Books@henryholtbooks.bsky.social

"For a book about legacies and the afterlife, Shannon Sanders’ debut novel, The Great Wherever, is surprisingly and charmingly life-affirming." Read more: www.bookpage.com/reviews/grea... @shanders.bsky.social

bookpage.comBook review of The Great Wherever by Shannon SandersFor a book about legacies and the afterlife, Shannon Sanders’ debut novel, The Great Wherever, is surprisingly and charmingly life-affirming.

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Henry Holt Books
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"A playful and poignant intergenerational saga about a haunted farm in which ancestors watch over and critique the living for posterity and entertainment."—@npr.org on #TheGreatWherever by @shanders.bsky.social 😎🏖️ Read more about this summer darling here: www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n...

npr.org15 books our critics can't wait for this summerA gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking forward to.