Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

a delightful assortment of cute stickers, candles, bath bombs, dish towels, puzzles, and knitted crafts

A package of elk jerky and a sticker reading “monster fucker”

what my wife got at the craft fair vs what I got at the craft fair

A VP that doesn’t exist IRL because this takes place like ten years in the future or smth 🤔

Idk!! I got so lucky!!! Max Meyers is genuinely a GIFT!!!

top two things things that I, a trans horror author, have signed instead of my own books:

- a box containing a vial of medical testosterone (the reader and I used the same brand) (hell yeah dude)
- the literal Book of Mormon (yes, as in the LDS religious text) (pocket edition)

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice.

Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

A graphic with the cover of YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN underneath the words “INSTANT BESTSELLER.”

A graphic showing YWMTBH at #24 on the USA Today list, and #11 on the Indie list.

YWMTBH is an INSTANT BESTSELLER!

In this day and age, a horror novel BY and ABOUT a disabled trans man - tackling pregnancy as violence, the necessity of abortion, and the right to CHOOSE - hitting a list? It feels like a miracle.

Everyone, thank you so much 🪱

A graphic with a dark, gloomy forest background. The text reads: “1. BEAST. It’s twilight when the woman finds us. Dead. In the underbrush. My hand in his.”

BEAST//WARDEN drafting begins this week 🍂🌾🪦

hope y’all are ready for a monstrously complicated Stone Age YA fantasy about disability, ableism, messy teen attempts at polyamory, and the meaning of sacrifice for the greater good.

You KNOW it is!!

LMAOOOOO (and the nice little note is in the acknowledgments this time!! I wanted to step away from the reader’s attention in this particular book until the very end 🥰🥰)

Happy Book Birthday to NYT and USA Today bestselling author Andrew Joseph White's highly anticipated debut adult horror novel YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN!

Everyone that has read this visceral entry into the body horror genre says the same thing: It's brutal, it's brilliant, and it's devastating.

You Weren't Meant to Be Human Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation...

If you can stomach it, I hope this book makes you feel seen - or teaches you something new.

Find a place to pick it up here:

www.simonandschuster.com/books/You-We...

Text reading: Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. It’s an offer that none refuse. Crane is grateful. Among his hive’s followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won’t destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnant—and the hive demands the child’s birth, no matter the cost—Crane’s desperation to make it stop will drive the community that saved him into a devastating spiral that can only end in blood. You Weren’t Meant to Be Human is a deeply personal horror; a visceral statement about the lives of marginalized people in a hostile world, echoing the works of Stephen Graham Jones and Eric LaRocca.

I can talk about what the book is About all day. But just know that this was written as a snapshot of my feelings the day that Roe V Wade was overturned. It’s filthy, violent, disgusting, and while none of this happened to me, emotionally it’s the truest thing I’ve ever written.

A pale hand holding a copy of YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White against a black sweatshirt.

YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN is out today 🪱

My horror novel about worms, cults, unwanted pregnancy, Roe V Wade, undiagnosed autism, and trans men’s invisibility in discussions about reproductive justice…

I can’t believe it’s on shelves. Thank you ALL 😩💕

narration by max meyers, who - by the way - is amazing and deserves the WORLD

hey. hey. want to hear a snippet of the YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN audiobook????

turned in dev edits for YOURE NO BETTER on Friday, which means I get to start working on my Stone Age polyamorous fantasy-horror 😎

A cart full of copies of YWMTBH, each with a “worm on a string” tucked inside

Me, a masked guy with blond hair, doing a peace sign in front of the cart of YWMTBH copies

signing YWMTBH preorders today ✌️

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN Evernight/Illumicrate book details!!!!

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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Check out the review here:

www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

A screenshot of the Booklist page, showing the cover of YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN beside a Star.

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN got its SECOND star, this one from Booklist!! 🌟

“White’s adult debut is brutal…but encapsulates the best of the modern horror genre.”

My horror novel about a trans man’s unwanted pregnancy comes out in ONE WEEK and I am not nervous at all 😩

An arrow pointing to the audiobook copy of YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN, with a text from 3:04am from my wife reading, “Aj said yesterday “man I think it’d be cool if I had something in the freebie audiobooks one day” WELL GUESS WHAT GAYBOY:”

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN is a free Advanced Listener Copy on libro for booksellers btw!!!!

I’m two chapters in to the audiobook (got it from my wife’s libro ALCs) and. AAAAAUGH 😭 my skin is CRAWLINGG

You Weren't Meant to Be Human Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation...

🫵 this book has made at least three readers physically ill btw

www.simonandschuster.com/books/You-We...

like. am I nervous?? of course. but I hope trans people like me feel seen and heard, and I hope people who have never thought about trans men’s place in reproductive discussions discover a new viewpoint 🥺💕

either way, I hope you also feel SICK too b/c this thing is rancid lmao

A stack of identical black books—YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN—showing their red sprayed edges in a bookstore. One is facing front, showing the title and worms on the cover.

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN comes out in 9 days 🪱

still can’t believe I wrote a horror novel to explore my fear of pregnancy & childbirth as a transgender man post-Roe V Wade, it sold for six figures to a huge publisher, and it’s gonna be on shelves so soon. what the fuck

AAAAAND we’re at 13 seats left now!!

we’re down to 22 spots now 🤭

Authors: Andrew Joseph White & Alice Scott New Book Launch & Discussion Join us on Tuesday, September 9th at 7:00PM at the Chantilly Regional Library for the launch of award-winning author Andrew Joseph White's adult...

Registration link here! Depending on demand, we miiiight find an extra ten spots….

librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/15017745

A white and red graphic featuring the cover of YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN, my headshot, my wife’s headshot, and the following info: “BOOK LAUNCH: ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE in conversation with Alice Scott. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 | 7PM @ CHANTILLY REGIONAL LIBRARY.”

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN BOOK LAUNCH 🔥

If you’re in the Northern Virginia area, come see me + my wife talk about my adult horror debut - about Roe V Wade, transness, autism, & worms 🫵🪱

16 days until release, and there are only 27 seats left! Registration required!!