Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| When the Moon Turns to Blood | 2022 | Buy |
| Blazing Eye Sees All | 2025 | Buy |
Sottile built her reputation covering the corners of American political life that most journalists treat as peripheral: militia groups, armed standoffs with federal land agencies, and the networks of belief that connect them. The Bundyville podcast brought that reporting to a wide audience and established her as one of the more careful observers of far-right movements in the American West.
Her book When the Moon Turns to Blood examined a doomsday cult through the lens of a murder case, tracing how apocalyptic belief can turn lethal when it intersects with ordinary family conflict. It’s the kind of true crime writing that takes the ideology seriously rather than using it as local color.
Sottile writes with the instincts of a long-form journalist: patient accumulation of detail, resistance to easy explanations, and attention to the people who get drawn into extreme movements as much as to the movements themselves.