Lex Croucher

Lex Croucher

@lexcroucher.bsky.social

wordsman & enthusiast. NYT, Indie & USA Today bestselling author of GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE

1,381 Followers 112 Following 28 Posts Joined Sep 2023
6 months ago
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John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’ Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella

Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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6 months ago

greatest thing about being an author is getting to read your most anticipated books so early. the next @freyamarske.bsky.social is sooooo extremely delicious I want to curl up inside it like a dormouse

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1 year ago

Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead

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8 months ago

I’m an absolute beginner at ice skating and today I gave myself actual motion sickness just from skating in circles which bodes well for future skills I think

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8 months ago
Cover for 'Night at the vampire castle, a choose-your-own romance' by Hari Conner. A purple, pulpy illustration with three vampires in front of an ominous castle

COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September.

- Dating sim vs gothic novel energy
- Be & romance any gender
- Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs

Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc

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9 months ago
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I read gwen and art are not in love by @lexcroucher.bsky.social yesterday and gwen and arthur’s friendship is so important to me!!!

#art #illustration #artist

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9 months ago

I love this so much!!

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10 months ago
Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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10 months ago

Kidlit colleagues, just a reminder that JK Rowling *funded* this challenge over the definition of women at the Supreme Court. Every time you choose to work with her, platform her, take a stance that aligns with her, buy her books, nominate her for more awards, she uses that and funds hate.

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10 months ago

The level of injustice is just so extreme

They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups

They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"

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11 months ago

I don’t mind it with shows like the white lotus because if they were books they’d be self-indulgent plotless litfic with the same endings, but when so many of the big blockbusters and romcoms are also like this I’m ?!??

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11 months ago
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

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11 months ago

LITERALLY

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11 months ago

getting stressed about deadlines is so much funnier now that I'm writing adult fantasy with more explicit romance. staring at the word document, sweating, tearing at my hair, "so he has a boner ... WHAT NEXT????"

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11 months ago

society (my social media timeline) is already splitting into soulless AI techbro fascists vs impassioned Neo-Luddite artists. exciting first glimpses of the precise nature of our future dystopia???

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11 months ago
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UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’

UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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11 months ago

this is fascinating. what’s her method??

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11 months ago

I’m on a plane and the turbulence is both JUICY and BOUNCY. please distract me by telling me something nice that’s happened to you lately, thank you!!!

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11 months ago

she’s waiting

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11 months ago
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My Cool Friend Michelle Other kids called Trachtenberg a bitch, but in our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.

I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid.

www.vulture.com/article/mara...

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1 year ago
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11 months ago

Yes

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1 year ago
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Official fan art for @lexcroucher.bsky.social ‘s wonderful ‘Gwen & Art Are Not In Love’

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1 year ago

these are gorgeous!!

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1 year ago
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finally got my hands on @lexcroucher.bsky.social 's Not For The Faint of Heart and devoured it in a day, so have some art of the girls, and a bluesky exclusive sketch of mariel ✌️

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1 year ago

WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death

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1 year ago
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Why Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint Won’t Require Blurbs Anymore In a decision some might call “stunning” or a “tour-de-force,” new S&S publisher Sean Manning has decided to no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books. Here’s why.

the S&S publisher in PW! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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1 year ago
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well. yes. I agree it’s not the AUTHOR’s job to run around trying to get blurbs for marketing and publicity, as this is not their job or skill set. but the publisher? the people in charge of Marketing And Publicity? perhaps this might be mysteriously linked to them somehow?

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1 year ago
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reading with cricket vs reading with remy

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1 year ago

cricket is the grey fella!! he’s very chill. remy has a demon inside him

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