Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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20x30in - made in procreate

#art #artistonbluesky #illustration

saw IRON LUNG. it was very sexy. to me.

A hand-drawn image of a pig in an ICE uniform, with a trump-nazi ear tag. The text reads NOTHING CAN MASK THE STENCH OF A FILTHY PIG. They’ll pepper spray your children. They’ll unlawfully abduct your husband. They’ll shoot you in the face. THE PIGS WILL SLAUGHTER US.

found this week 🐽

330??? 😭 Ugh it’s so easy to forget how small YA really is in comparison when you spend nearly all of your time in this particular slice of the industry

The “WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE” SpongeBob meme, with no text.

etc etc

A Goodreads screenshot showing four books: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH, COMPOUND FRACTURE, and YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN. Certain statistics are highlighted to show that YWMTBH has a higher to-read and currently reading count than TSBIT, and more ratings and reviews than CF.

I was Consciously aware that the adult lit market is Lightyears larger than the YA/teen lit market, because Obviously, but my four-month-old adult horror EASILY outpacing my one- and even two-year-old YA books really drove it home

me, stating a plain and simple truth to my wife just now: “I am incapable of having fun! I have a stick up my ass and am deeply whimsyless”

You're No Better In You're No Better, Morgan Slaughter must contend with…

Add it on GR:
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Check out content warnings:
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Hopefully we’ll get to show off the cover soon 🙏🌸

A white and pink graphic reading “YOURE NO BETTER: Official summary,” with broken glass in the background.

Black text on a white background, reading: “Bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with another horrific YA thriller: a profound portrait of a struggling teen trying to convince the world—and himself—that he’s better than the serial killer who raised him. Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago. Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself. Desperately, Morgan latches onto his father’s final victim—the only one who was never identified—hoping that if he unravels the mystery, he’ll finally prove he’s better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgan’s childhood—that he wasn’t just a witness to his father’s brutality, he was an accomplice. And if he doesn’t let them help with his investigation? They’ll tell everyone. Forced to confront his past, Morgan’s ugly but carefully controlled world unravels. The film crew is manipulative. His mother’s temper spirals into malice, then violence. And Morgan and Felicity may be more tightly intertwined than either of them can stomach… You’re No Better is a gritty and unapologetic coming-of-age suspense about teens who grew up surrounded by cruelty and are clawing their way to adulthood the only way they know how.”

my newest novel, YOU’RE NO BETTER—a teen thriller about messy trans kids and serial killers—has an official summary!

this book is a rough one, and it tackles a lot of ugliness, but I love it so much and can’t wait to share it 💕

God I LOVE THIS!!

A hip tattoo in black and gray. A set of antlers on a bed of worms, framed in twisted tribal shapes.

WORMS!! Loved working on this piece today based on the book You Weren’t Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social !!!

#tattoo #art

A photo of a home office packed with books and art. There are two full bookcases, a bean bag chair, a glass desk with a laptop, and a plethora of art, prints, certificates, and awards hanging on the wall. There is also a cat laying on the floor beside the printer.

Back to writing after the holidays (a Neolithic fantasy-horror YA & a secret short story) ft. my finally(!!) clean office… AND the new bookcase (far left) that my wife @allyscottauthor.bsky.social loaded up with the majority of the books I’ve blurbed 🥰🥰

Lotta folks talking resolutions, so a quick reminder to focus on goals you can control.

Instead of making it about agents or deals, focus on things like reading more to improve your craft, finding ways to support your peers, drafting something new…

You don’t need anyone else, to chase those goals.

A picture of a white hand holding a slightly open army green ammo can, with yellow text stating that its meant to hold 200 cartridges of 7.62 MM ammunition

The same can, just angled so you can see the band aids, testosterone, and syringes.

realized that not everyone knows I keep my HRT in an ammo can gifted to me by my father, which I feel like is extremely important info for understanding who I am as a person

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

69 (nice)

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!!