Lex Croucher

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...

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

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

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

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

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

I love this so much!!

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.

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.

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"

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 ?!??

LITERALLY

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????"

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???

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...

this is fascinating. what’s her method??

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!!!

she’s waiting

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...

Yes

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

these are gorgeous!!

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 ✌️

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

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/...

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?

reading with cricket vs reading with remy

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