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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Thank you!! So excited for the projects in the works. Also have THE CITY OF SLAUGHTER coming out in August!

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We are so excited to reveal the cover for YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW by @adenpolydoros.bsky.social! 🖤 An unsettling horror in which a young man returns to his Pennsylvania hometown to confront the traumatic demons of the past... Coming in February 2027 🩸

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

So thrilled to reveal the cover of YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW! (2/27, with Titan Books) Elliot, a childhood trauma survivor, is dragged back to the scene of the crimes he experienced by a documentary filmmaker, and finds the ghosts of his past, alive and bloodthirsty.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This book's also gone from a ridiculous number of name changes lol. It was originally NAMES OF BLASPHEMY, then ANTICHRIST, until my editor and I decided on YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I was trying to find an old draft of YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW, and it's ridiculous the number of drafts I have. Over 300 since 2022, then probably 50+ more from 2020. Every time I make a major change, I make a new draft.

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Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I do not use AI. In fact, I have never once queried AI and when it pops up asking if I require help I usually spend a few minutes figuring out how to disable it. I don't want AI thinking for me, writing for me, or editing for me. I don't want AI drawing for me, painting for me, or composing for me.

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

DEAD RINGER is a return to form, one of my inclusive, big-cast Gaslamp Fantasy novels! An adorable disaster of a telephone operator assembles a team of amateur detectives (a hot immigration lawyer & labor activists!) to solve the murder of a ghost who pops through her console & prevent another one!

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report August 25 2025
DEAD RINGER by Leanna Renee Hieber
Imprint: City Owl Press, Recorded Books
Leanna Renee Hieber's DEAD RINGER, a romantic mystery set in 1892 Manhattan, in which an adorable disaster of a telephone operator is begged by a beautiful ghost to help solve that ghost's murder and help prevent others, to Lisa Green at City Owl Press, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026 by Sara Megibow at Megibow Literary Agency (world English). Audio rights to Catherine Wallach at Recorded Books. Rights: contact@megibowliterary.com

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Like, if I can't reinstate my Threads and Instagram accounts, I'm done with social media. This is just ridiculous. Ten years down the drain, and Meta still won't tell me what apparently I did wrong.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

When I was literally trying to call out the way conservatives view trans youth as 'redeemable victims' until a certain age, when they begin to demonize those same trans youth, now in their late teens or early adulthood, as predators.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'd really love to know if the reason I got banned on Instagram and Threads is because I antagonized an account that called me a kike and a rat for responding to their posts calling trans people 'degenerates' or is it because a bunch of trans people misinterpreted my post as transphobic.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I did that in the initial email, and like an hour later, they perma-banned my account. They still haven't told me why, and there's no way to even see what the apparent offense was. This is so effed up. I'm done with social media if I can't get my accounts back after this.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Can anyone help a queer writer and ask Instagram and Threads why they banned my accounts? I'm pretty sure transphobes filed malicious reports.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It won't let me appeal. It didn't even give me a reference number I can use to file an appeal with the Oversight Board. For some reason, none of the avenues online (my account was hacked, etc.) are even accessible for me. It's like they've blocked my entire access to the sites.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Banned from Instagram and Threads!! Are any mutuals able to reach out to them and file a complaint? I don't know why I was perma-banned, my accounts are being deleted, and there's no way to file an appeal. I can't even log into the sites anymore.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Blown away by this blurb for HUNTING BY THE RIVER from Sunday Times bestselling author Jake Arnott.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'm so upset. I can't believe my Instagram and Threads accounts are disabled and going to be deleted, when I did nothing wrong.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

How did you contact tech support? I can't even access their help chat

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I got some angry responses yesterday to a Thread that some viewers misunderstood, but that shouldn't have been reason to suspend me.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is horrible. Instagram and Threads suspended my accounts for literally no reason! They won't tell me why.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

WTF? My Threads and Instagram accounts just got suspended for no reason.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I filmed my first short back in January. Just under 8 minutes, cost $750 for locations, and I'm incredibly proud of it. It might not look as flashy as all these AI videos flooding my timeline, but I did it all myself. Shot it, acted in it, edited it. It's all mine.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Like, it would feel typical--I can't recall my childhood or my adolescence or my undergrad--except, I know that the level of daily amnesia I experience is abnormal. And this level of identity variance is abnormal.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It's funny, because before I realized I had a dissociative disorder, this would all feel relatively in sync, but it's paying attention to these subtle nuances, I realize--the reason I can't clearly recall the last two years of my life, is because we are fractured.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

There is a clear cleavature of emotions, of experiences, that is separated by the adult trauma. That divides, me as Aden, with the one that became.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

There was a divide, between who I was as Aden, and how I viewed myself in the moment. And I can't relate, on a baser level, to how I viewed myself in the past, before that moment. I feel no emotion or relation to the classes I took in undergrad, to studying abroad in Germany, to my writing career.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I think, the worst part of realizing I have DID, is struggling with the feeling, that I am not a person. That I don't quantify the necessary amount (of my daily life, of my piecemeal past) to be a whole, complete person. Like, I think, a few years ago, after an adult assault, there was a schism.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A few minutes later, the man came up, GF said, "I heard you offered to buy our friend here" and I said "F- you, you pedo- f---." Guy said he was working for police; police had no record of him. Still think about that...

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A few years ago, I was living in Vancouver, and hanging out with my friend and his GF at the beach. We were drinking and smoking, and my friend went over to him to ask to use his charger. The man asked me friend if he could buy me, which my friend relayed to us when he returned.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Now I know why, and I know the abuse I suffered has defined my entire life. I'll never know the person I could've been, had it not happened. And that's gutting.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

CSA ruins lives. It literally destroys a part of you, of the child you could have been and the adult you could've become. I began having symptoms of DID several years ago, but even before that, since I was a kid, I felt horribly wrong, broken, rotten. And I didn't know why. 1/2

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Also, reading my previous books, it's wild seeing the metaphors for dissociation and repressed trauma. Like, from Project Pandora to Wrath Becomes Her, there's a clear pattern of subtext that becomes more and more overt.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

So, writing feels much more collaborative now. Their role in my books, is the other reason I decided to be public about having DID. I know I'm a good writer, but I don't think I would've been able to sell ten books before the age of 30, without my alters.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

But then, sometimes it's also a joy, writing in the moment and feeling so close to my characters, in a way I didn't before. I can match my alters up with different characters, throughout multiple books, based upon their faces and individual voices; I know the ones they wrote and roleplayed as.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Like, it's been a journey this last year, on all fronts. It's terrifying, as an author, looking at your own manuscript, not being able to remember you wrote it, not being able to conceptualize the plot in your head, not knowing how to edit. Because /you/ didn't write it.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

and I don't intend to detransition--it would be horrific for me and the majority of my alters. And I'm so grateful I was able to transition as a teen, because I would have literally killed myself. But I still want to be able to talk about this aspect.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

And, as a trans person, it was shocking and distressing when, after being satisfied in my gender identity for years, I began feeling like a woman at times, or a young girl at times. I've since found a satisfying medium to balance my dysphoria +

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I thought it was normal to have multiple trains of thought going at once, to have an ongoing dialogue in my head, but it's not. I thought it was normal to not be able to remember your childhood, or forget the classes you took earlier that day, that it was just ADHD, but it's not.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When I get into the 'flow', I dictate my novels without thinking, barely aware of what I'm saying. And my voice changes. I can literally hear, through several years of recordings, when other alters have decided to write passages.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Like, I hid it for 2+ years after becoming aware I had the disorder, just because I was terrified of the stigma. It felt like my life was over. But I've come to realize, the sole reason I am such a successful writer, is because of my alters.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'd really love to start talking more about DID, and how getting this diagnose in my late 20s, really changed my life. It's such a stigmatized disorder, I feel like there's so many stereotypes and misconceptions, I want to help combat that.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Anyway, highly recommend reading "The Gift of Fear". It definitely made me rethink how I view my own intuition and gut feelings, and how modern-day rationality sometimes forces us to bury the animal instinct that lays at the basis of our evolution as a species.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The masked man was being escorted out by security, I guess for shop-lifting, but my immediate feel upon seeing him lift up his mask was, "armed robbery", and I should've just gone to another gas station, to alleviate the fear and risk.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A few months ago, I had a similar thing happen, where I was going into a gas station late at night and the man who came in behind me immediately pulled up his face mask. That time, I left, but sat in my car for 5 minutes, feeling ridiculous, before deciding to go back into the store.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Since reading "The Gift of Fear", I've decided to listen to these inner cues, even if they feel irrational. Any other mutuals experience something like this?

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I've never had that happen before. It was only a brief glance, and the man gave me this odd, hard look--but it just immediately caused me to dissociate and go into protector mode, and be like, "we need to leave."

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Ever come across someone and get an explicably bad feeling? A few days ago, I was at the grocery store, and made eye contact with this couple--the moment I met the man's gaze, I felt an immediate sense of danger, and actually decided to immediately check out and leave the store.

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Aden Polydoros @adenpolydoros.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I hear all the time about how reviews are for readers, but do any other authors read their own reviews, in order to learn how to improve their craft or see where they fell short? For me, reading reviews of TCB and the pacing in the novel, definitely influenced how I wrote the sequel.

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