Sonido Reyes

So-NEE-doh | he/they | Base form known as Sonora Reyes | The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School | The Luis Ortega Survival Club | The Broposal | up next: The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar

[sonidoreyes]

Allow me to reintroduce myself

My name is Sonido Reyes (please clap)

A few things to note:

1. Sonora is not a dead name FOR ME SPECIFICALLY. Not every trans person is the same, but I have a fond relationship with my old name. It just doesn't suit me anymore, and that's okay. Call me Sonido going forward, but there's no need to avoid mentioning my old name when it's relevant. If you want to read more about my thoughts on this, I'll have a newsletter coming tomorrow that goes more in depth

2. Please do not boycott my old books for having my old name on them! Think of them as limited-edition, pre-pokemon evolution copies of Sonido Reyes books lol. I WANT those books to sell! In fact, if they sell enough copies to justify another printing, then I'll get to see my new name on them even sooner!

3. Changing my name is something I needed to do, but it is frankly terrifying, especially right now. Maybe putting more attention on myself while there's already a target on my back is naive. I have amazing friends and followers, and while I'm sure there will be a lot of people who support me, I'm still anxious about how this will be received. Please, please, be nice to me about it, or at least keep your judgment somewhere I can't see

4. I'm in the process of changing my name on all socials, my website, and all the places I could think of that link to my socials or website, but if you happen to come across something of mine in the wild* that I still haven't updated, please let me know!

*this doesn't apply to retail sites or anything connected to my books, since the name on the books will take longer to change

I think that's all for now. I'll share more in depth thoughts about this on my newsletter, including the significance of the name Sonido and why I decided to do this now.

Love you, and thank you in advance for being cool about this 😘

[sonidoreyes]

Would you ever consider doing a sequel to the lesbianas guide to catholic school where Yami is in college or something? I haven't read the golden boy's guide to bipolar yet, but I just love Yamilet as a character and would love to see more of her 🩷

I don't have anything like that planned at the moment but never say never! I love Yami dearly and it means a lot that people would be interested in following more of her story 💜

[sonidoreyes]

Hey Sonido! It'll be great if you signed this petition - https://c.org/Q42phn9ZTz

Is it possible for u to get everyone else yk to get its link signed as well? Ask them to do n repeat these same actions w everyone else they know as well and for their own people to do n repeat these same actions as well w everyone else they k too

The second ask you sent me has a broken link, but this one works!

For anyone who wants to know before clicking the link, this is a change.org petition to oppose an amendment that would redefine transgender identity in India, which would remove the principle of self-identified gender identity from the law. I've signed it and encourage anyone else to sign as well 💜

[sonidoreyes]

The rumors are true! (and I may or may not have started them 🤭)

Coming September 22 to a bookstore near you, To Our Untamed Core is the trans Mexican Hunger Games book I have been dying to shout about for the last 87 years. I’m so freaking proud of this book and I hope you all love it as much as I do 💛

preorder here if you feel so inclined

Art: Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza Design: Jessie Gang

[sonidoreyes]

We're live!!!!

@jonnyescribe and I started a podcast all about celebrating queer and trans BIPOC stories and storytellers. Tune in for some real talk about publishing and maybe some chisme 🫖

You can search "bidi bidi book pod" wherever you listen to podcasts or find the full ep and transcript here

[sonidoreyes]

PSA that the "I'm getting pulled over" siri shortcut also works for ICE

If you need to record what's happening and also need people to know where you are immediately, you can set up the shortcut so it automatically sends your location to predetermined contacts and starts a discreet audio recording, also sent to those contacts and backed up.

You can also do this if you see something happening to someone else. Stay safe friends

[sonidoreyes]

We're starting a podcast! Come hang out with me and @jonnyescribe while we celebrate queer and trans BIPOC authors and stories, and maybe do a little oversharing about the publishing industry.

Our first episode will go live on 2/3, and we have some incredible guests already lined up! Keep your eyes peeled for more info coming soon 👀

Our adorable logo was made by the wonderful Lee Call (@callthewriterlee on ig) and I couldn’t be more obsessed! Look how cute we are!!

[sonidoreyes]

I just finished the lesbiana’s guide and I just wanted to say how much I loved it and it made me (a close aged queer teen going to a tiny Christian school) feel really seen, and it was such a delight to read in every way. Thank you for writing it!! Much love!! <3333

Oh thank you so much for saying this!! I'm so glad it made you feel seen and that you enjoyed it 💜

[sonidoreyes]

I just finished reading the lesbiana's guide to Catholic School and it was amazing !!! I can't wait for the sequel in September! :D

omg thank you so much!! I'm so sorry for responding so late. I really hope you enjoy the sequel 💜

[sonidoreyes]

gonna be really vulnerable for a bit and then we can all pretend everything is fine again. I think the reason I haven't talked much about The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar even though it comes out in less than two months is because I'm currently in the trenches of my mental illness. I feel like a fraud talking about a book that is supposed to be hopeful when I, the author, am drowning. For a while, I felt like I could only show up talking about this story if I was in a good headspace

I thought if this book helped anyone, all that help would be automatically undone if readers knew I was still struggling. But that's actually the opposite of what I set out to do with this story. The whole point is that it's okay to let yourself be seen as you are and it's okay if you're not always a perfect example of a healthy happy person. I tend to disappear when I'm not doing well because it's really hard to exist in the world right now, especially publicly.

I have to remember that I deserve the same grace as everyone I wrote this book for, because I wrote it for me tooI'm going to try my best not to disappear this time. I'm going to try and talk more about this book because I really do want it to find the people who need it. This story is so, so personal to me and it's scary to know that people who read it will really be seeing me in a way I have been dying to be seen since I was a child. and hopefully that feeling of being seen will be mutual

sooooo yeah writing books is scary and promoting them is even scarier but I'm going to take a big brave swing at my imposter syndrome here and say I think The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar is pretty good and you should read it lol

[lilymeade]

What are you working on at the moment? Anything new? Perhaps the sequel to The Shadow Sister?? 👀👀👀

not me finding this ask like three years late, I need to install the Tumblr app back on my phone now that all the other social sites are dead

AND YES: I've just shared the cover for my official Scooby Doo novel and after replying here I need to go finish edits on my next Sourcebooks book

[sonidoreyes]

With The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar coming out this year, I thought it'd be fun to throw a re-read party for the book that started it all! Whether it’s your first time reading The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School, or you just want to refresh your memory before september, let’s do it together!

This challenge will run from Monday, June 2 through Saturday, June 28 with a goal of one chapter per day—if that’s not doable for you, feel free to start early or end late! During the challenge, I’ll be posting a storytime on ig and tiktok every day related to each chapter title.

To end out the challenge, I’ll announce the details of the preorder campaign for The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar. If you buy The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School in any format for this challenge, it will count as an extra entry, so save your receipts!

[tlosc]

Audiobook Giveaway

I have extra credit for the audiobook app Libro.FM and I would love to gift someone a copy of The Luis Ortega Survival Club by @sonora-reyes! If you or someone in your life would find this book meaningful and isn’t in a place to buy audiobooks right now, please send me a message or ask :) <3

[sonidoreyes]

this is so nice!!

[sonidoreyes]

I was recently at a work meeting that ground to a halt because we were squealing over The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School. (I’m a librarian so it’s not as random as it seems.) Then someone said there would be a sequel and we died of joy. 😁 just wanted to share.

omg I love that!! Yes there will be a spinoff from Cesar's perspective in September! I'm so happy to hear people are already excited about it!

[sonidoreyes]

Don't really care. Could you do a book on the band Steely Dan instead . I will read it if it's about Steely Dan. OK go ahead and do that. Thanks get back to me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

I'm truly sorry I never heard of Steely Dan before now but I really hope you find the Steely Dan book of your dreams one day

[sonidoreyes]

Where are my party-people* who are up at this god forsaken hour?

*insomniacs

[swaggy-phrogge-boi]

I couldn’t sleep last night so I decided to start reading TLOSC to make myself sleepy. 4 hours and one mug of sleepy time tea later, I finished the book.

[sonidoreyes]

lmaoooo so sorry for keeping you up! I hope you sleep better tonight at least! 💜

[sonidoreyes]

I know I've been hinting at this for a while but IT'S HAPPENING!!!

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School is getting a spinoff following Cesar after the events of the first book! I can't wait to share this story with you all, it really means the world to me 💜

[banana-can-do-art]

Omg what I was just thinking about this book so I looked it up on tumblr and we’re getting a spinoff?! Of one of my fav characters in the book?! And the author is on tumblr?!

[sonidoreyes]

your timing is impeccable I JUST posted the cover reveal!!