Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

A warm photograph of four books stacked on top of each other. From bottom to top: YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN, COMPOUND FRACTURE, THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH, and HELL FOLLOWED WITH US. In the background, a Christmas tree and a rainbow rug are out of focus.

writing about queer, trans, and autistic boys and men is a gift 💝

YESSSS

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Guess what - I’ve followed my wonderful agent Jennifer March Soloway, @marchsoloway.bsky.social, to Starling Literary + Media!

The SLM team has been working hard on this for a while, and I’m glad to be a part of it 🥰🥰

I swear to god if you don’t download this game and play it right now. If you usually suck at horror games, there’s an “enemies are harmless” mode. Don’t look up the plot at all. The ending gave me such horrific existential dread that I got a stomachache. Get it NOW.

A brown fluffy tabby at in a box amidst my holiday wrapping station

Poppy cards are about half claimed so reminders if we’re mutuals and you want a holiday card from the Beastie (also @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social and me) drop a comment!

I got SO lucky (both in publishing teams and the facial hair genetics testosterone jostled up)

A selfie of a white trans man with asymmetrical blond hair sitting against a brick wall. He has no beard and his face is soft.

A selfie of a white trans man sitting in a car. He is visibly older and has a full beard, shorter hair, etc.

realized I missed my sixth HRT anniversary in Sept because I was too busy celebrating the release of my fourth bestselling novel lol 🏳️‍🌈🤘🏳️‍⚧️

If Crane was the personification of blowing up your life to avoid responsibilities you can’t handle, Gunwyn is the personification of trying your best nevertheless and feeling So Fucking Bad and Stupid the whole time !!!

needing help with basic adult responsibilities, struggling to live up to expectations, & being judged for acting/sounding “too young”… even though you’re a grown & “smart” man who should be “better” than this…. Ohhh Gunwyn Byrne, the themes I’m going to stitch into you…

i start plotting my next adult project in the spring & I am rubbing my hands together. the feelings I have about being a developmentally disabled adult who struggles to live up to societal expectations of “adulthood” are gonna be y’all’s problem in *checks notes* several years

I have a day job!!

I have one of the most boring 9-to-5s on the planet!!!

I make VERY GOOD money from advances/royalties alone (hi, I’m a bestseller!), but I’m also the breadwinner and we need health insurance. No way am I abandoning a stable, quiet, low-pressure “email job” in this economy.

YESSSSSS

I wish I knew! 😩

RIGHT!!

I will be eagerly returning to ghost of yōtei and STALKER 😭

BOOK FIVE COPYEDITS DONE

my book about an angry & unwell trans boy, his serial killer father & controlling mother, true crime, social media, and the way that kids are failed by the adults around them…. it’s COMPLETE!! ITS DONE!!

I can finally play video games again 😭😭

Our Evernight October book was You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White!

📸: carsenslibrary; tabatha_reads_books; the_phantompages

A screenshot reading: - An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @esgalor; design by @chattynora) - Full colour art and foil on the hardback (by @anwitacitriya) - Digitally printed edges (by @esgalor) - Illustrated endpapers (by @spookgeist); different front and back

I appreciate Illumicrate/Evernight’s decision to spoil the book ahead of time - subscribers deserved the chance to look up content warnings and opt out if necessary. As always, I’m honored to work together on such a stunning total package!!

The Evernight exclusive cover of YWMTBH, showing Crane (the protagonist) in a sports bra and cargo pants, holding his pregnant stomach and covering his face while staring at the viewer. The cover is dark and claustrophobic and eerie.

The naked hardback of the book, which is black and white with monochrome red blood splatters. It shows a massive wasp’s nest the size of a room, with skeletons and broken furniture scattered on the floor.

The signature page. The title is made of dripping letters in a circle, and the signature has a worm doodle on it.

One of the endpapers, showing a man in camo trapping the protagonist against the ground in a livestock auction lot (no animals), and holding his face. There is a shotgun leaning against the bars.

The Illumicrate/Evernight editions of YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN have been out in the world for a month now, and I just cannot BELIEVE how beautiful/horrific this is. It’s always such a blast to work with the team!!

Poppy, a brown fluffy tabby cat, peering over a bin of ornaments

Poppy, a brown fluffy tabby cat, peering over a bin of ornaments

It’s that time of year again!!! If you’re mutuals with me or @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social and want a holiday card with a picture of Pop Rocks in it, let me know!!

a creature like a flayed hound, with a skull like a cow. it has two glazed blue-white eyes on the visible side of its head, suggesting two more on the opposite side. its drawn mid stride out of a bank of fog or mist, its back legs lost in the miasma, or forming out of it. it has four visible legs on the front end of its body.

Drew a Hound of Tindalos from a short story by Frank Belknap Long, released in a short story collection of his work in 1946.

The hounds are creatures that exist outside of time and space. They can emerge in the form of smoke from any angle of a certain sharpness, like the corner of a room.

Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Horror of 2025! Discover the Readers' Favorite Horror in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.

VOTE HERE 🙏🪱

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A green and yellow-themed graphic reading ITS TIME TO VOTE! Goodreads choice awards nominee, best horror: You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White

well well well - looks like YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Horror!

If you liked this miserable & cruel little shitshow about trans men’s invisibility in discussions of pregnancy, I’d be honored if you voted 🫵✨💕

A pumpkin carved in the shape of a crow pecking at a skull

A Jack o lantern with tiny eyes and a big bucktooth grin taking up its entire body

Our pumpkins resting together on the kitchen counter so you can see AJ has attached little pumpkin arms to his dude

Poppy on a footstool watching, unconcerned

It’s two days until Halloween, Wishbone Sleepy Hollow is on the tv, pumpkins are carved, and Poppy doesn’t give a single fuck

🥰🥰🥰🥰

A book cover reveal post, reading: "Even paradise has its ghosts" on a mock postcard with a persimmon stamp in the corner. The postcard has been torn in half, and in the middle of the split paper is the book THAT WHICH FEEDS US by Keala Kendall. The cover shows a mixed Hawaiian girl sitting on the floor of a room with peeling green wallpaper. Branches of persimmon fruit, both rotten and ripe, surround her while some branches pierce her skin. A blurb from bestselling author, Andrew Joseph White, reads: "Astounding" in the top corner of the book. At the bottom of the graphic, on the torn half of the postcard, reads: Book your trip May 26

Thereʻs a text box on a white postcard backdrop image that has postage fixed to the top of the frame like a letterhead. The text reads: “This astounding book is both a finger pointed directly at the rotting heart of colonial greed and a truly heart-pounding mystery.” — Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Compound Fracture For the world’s wealthiest, Kōpaʻa Island Resort is more than a destination. It’s the ultimate escape. With no cell service or Wi-Fi, the Hawaiian island is a coveted wellness retreat renowned for its persimmon orchard and promises of rejuvenation. But their dream vacation is Lehua’s nightmare. When her twin sister, Ohia, goes missing, Lehua follows her trail to Kōpaʻa to find her. Instead, Lehua is cut off from civilization—and help—after the island’s boat leaves without her, stranding her with the resort’s lavish guests and enigmatic staff. As Lehua investigates Ohia’s disappearance, she discovers her missing sister isn’t the island’s only mystery. Kōpaʻa’s rich exterior and sweet persimmons hide its dark plantation past. And Lehua can’t ignore the dreams haunting her each night—nor the warning telling her to leave the island at once. To uncover what happened to Ohia, Lehua will have to unearth the island’s bloody history and face the horrors that lurk within its sugarcane fields—or risk being consumed by them.

Plan your getaway. The classic beach read is getting a Hawaiian gothic twist.

Iʻm excited to share the cover for THAT WHICH FEEDS US, my YA supernatural thriller, out May 26. A huge thank you to Frances Wren, Liz Dresner, Kelly Austin, + @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social for blurbing. Pre-order 🔗 in bio!

CORRIDOR H!!!! 🫵💕 ohhhh that’s so COOL, I hope you’ve enjoyed!!!!!!

a Microsoft word screenshot, showing a TON of blue-marked edits in track changes.

turned in the last round of YOURE NO BETTER edits over my lunch break 🫡

(Cover hints btw… perhaps….
🖤🔪🩷📷🤍)

a handy dandy venn diagram, perhaps. If you will.