Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

w/ @allyscottauthor.bsky.social and @emjayvii.bsky.social 🎉

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Three train-themed presents; a watercolor card, a LEGO high speed train set, and a traintrackr live LED subway map of the DC metro.

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A graphic featuring four book covers and accompanying text on a wood-textured background. First: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US. Text reads, "2022 / YA. Peachtree Teen. Apocalyptic Horror. Queer kids and monsters fighting Evangelical death cultists." Second: THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH. Text reads, "2023 / YA. Peachtree Teen. Fantasy / Historical Horror. Escaping an evil girls’ reform school full of ghosts." Third: COMPOUND FRACTURE. Text reads, "2024 / YA. Peachtree Teen. Paranormal(?) Thriller. Appalachian families & ancestors taking down a corrupt sheriff." Fourth: YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN. Text reads, "2025 / Adult. Saga Press. Body Horror. An autistic trans man is forced to keep a pregnancy against his will."

A graphic featuring four book covers and accompanying text on a wood-textured background. First: THIS IS HOW WE ROLL, edited by Rosiee Thor. Text reads, "2025 / YA Page Street. Anthology. Uplifting tabletop RPG-themed anthology with an all-queer lineup." Second: A placeholder cover for YOU'RE NO BETTER. Text reads, "2026 / YA. Peachtree Teen. Psychological Thriller. Proving to the world that you’re nothing like your serial killer father." Third: A placeholder cover for BEAST//WARDEN. Text reads, "2027 / YA. Peachtree Teen. Fantasy-Horror. A doomed(?) polyamorous love story in another world’s Stone Age." Fourth: A placeholder cover with no title. The text is just a bunch of question marks.

AJW BOOKS OVERVIEW ✨

From 2022 to 2027 and beyond, I’ve been busy…

All books (and short stories) feature QUEER, TRANS BOYS & MEN, nearly all of them are AUTISTIC, and every single one is a stubborn bastard with a chip on his shoulder, whatever form that takes 🙏

AJW Bundle + Translated Edition - Signed Auction item 'AJW Bundle + Translated Edition - Signed' hosted online at 32auctions.

LINK HERE! 🔗 ❤️

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A graphic reading the following: “LIT FOR QUEER LIBERATION; QLN'S 2025 BOOKISH AUCTION. AUCTION PROCEEDS SUPPORT QUEER AND TRANS FOLX FACING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.” SUPPORTED BY: Bookshop.org Signed & Personalized Collection; Signed & personalized AJW hardcover collection including: Hell Followed With Us, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, and Compound Fracture, plus a signed & personalized translated edition of your choice (Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, or Italian). QUEER LIBERATION NETWORK”

The Lit for Queer Liberation auction—supporting an org that helps queer & trans people in TX and beyond—runs from TODAY (July 24) to July 31… and I have a package up for grabs!

If you’re in the US & want a signed bundle of all my YA books, plus some extras, give this a look!

The amazing @aceofjests.bsky.social drew a scene from The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social for our charity zine all about trans and enby books Characters ✨🏳️‍⚧️
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On sale this Saturday 🌈📚
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#fanzine #Queerzine #transright #enby #Queerbooks

you’d think it would be good for something but yet again, all of my day job’s mandatory FERPA training is failing me

today is my first real sit-down editing day for book #5, and so far it’s consisted of highlighting a 12-page editorial document and frustratedly googling FERPA guidelines

50 days now btw 🪱

I love this project so much I’m so excited I’m gonna be sick

YOURE NO BETTER edit letter is in my inbox

wheezing, crying, shaking, etc

Evangeline Gallagher!! They’re the BEST

I actually giggled this is the funniest response I could’ve gotten 😭🪱

30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025 - Reactor Here are 30 more standouts to put on your TBR for the second half of this year!

Let's talk about books baybeeeeeee!!

Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses

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★"...a brilliant, page-turning piece of trans splatterpunk body horror and an earnest, heart-rending tragedy. White should win a whole new set of fans with this."

I was always a fan of @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social's writing, but the world stopped when I read this one. It's everything.

You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White The supernatural horror of bestselling YA author White’s staggering adult debut (after Hell Followed with Us) is made all the mo...

Evil pro-natalist worms is the only way I’ll be describing the hive from now on, thank u

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A screenshot of the top of the Publishers Weekly page for the YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN started review, with the following text: “Andrew Joseph White. Saga, $29 (336p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3807-9”

holy shit worm book got a star from PW

“A book about evil pro-natalist worms could easily feel silly, but… The result is both a brilliant, page-turning piece of trans splatterpunk body horror and an earnest, heart-rending tragedy.”

⭐️🙏💕🪱

SNEAK PEEK:
The amazing @muddycrows.bsky.social drew a scene from The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social ✨🏳️‍⚧️
The digital Zine will be 3 dollars minimum and all profits will go to @southernequality.bsky.social ⭐
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#thespritbaresitsteeth #Queerart #Queerbooks #transbooks

there is no skipping through this one unfortunately, that’s the form the antagonists take and it’s pretty involved!

we’ve officially started talking about the cover of my 2026 YA thriller YOURE NO BETTER btw

A Barnes & Noble 25% off preorders graphic, stating "code PREORDER25 at checkout." The graphic has been split down the middle. On the left, it shows the bright, cheery cover of THIS IS HOW WE ROLL, with the text reading, "An awkward trans boy tries to reconnect with his awkward father through TTRPGs. Short story in a YA anthology!" On the right, it shows the dark, eerie cover of YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN, with the text reading, "A mute, autistic trans man gets knocked up, immediately becomes a danger to himself and others. Adult horror debut!"

the duality of man (aka my September releases) is truly remarkable

A picture of a white hand holding up a PS4 copy of Farcry Primal, with the Ubisoft logo on the TV screen behind it.

With my 2027 YA novel BEAST//WARDEN now officially on the workbench, I thought it might be good to start immersing myself in the ✨vibes✨

SUCCESS

A diagram from CHEWY showing the signs and body language of a fearful dog.

the most nervous animal in the world (me) goes car shopping today

y’all should check the book out btw, it’s a fucking nightmare about the fall of roe v wade and how trans men are completely forgotten about when we talk about this sort of thing

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A black and white digital sketch of a white, tattooed transgender man leaning against a table in a sports bra and oversized jacket. He is smoking and looking blankly at the viewer.

still 70 days left until YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN hits shelves, and it just cracked 10k adds on goodreads (thank you!!!) so here’s a quick sketch of our knocked-up masochist tboy protagonist in his shitty boyfriend’s jacket

A book conference stand, featuring YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White, with the cover of the book printed huge on the poster behind it.

A copy of COMPOUND FRACTURE by Andrew Joseph White, featuring both the Printz Honor Book seal and the silver Boston Globe Horn Book Award seals on the cover

The official award plaque for the Printz Award for Compound Fracture

Me, a white trans man with blond hair, sleeping with my head on my wife’s shoulder while they look out the window on the train. We’re both masked.

Accepted my Printz Honor, saw my adult debut in the S&S booth, COMPOUND FRACTURE got a second seal, I saw my agent and so many friends - I think ALA 2025 was a success ✨

Book signing #alaac25 @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social @raforall.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

OH SHIT