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Black enby writer of trash (affectionate) paranormal romances and urban fantasies centering Black queer characters. (they/them) ambooneauthor.com I mostly post about cats and Kirby... with a bit of book shilling in between.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 10h
Roland lives in a tiny town in Mississippi in the 1920s... His father just died from a prolonged illness, and he was the only one of his siblings who took care of him. He's also closeted and miserable. But now that he doesn't have any attachments, maybe he can reinvent himself... #FirstDraftFall
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 10h
Roland (the MC) is the son of a Baptist preacher, which makes the whole "sharing a body with a god who is decidedly *not* The Christian God™" thing a bit darkly hilarious. (He has trouble reconciling this at first, but gets on board once the god gives him power and a new body.) #WeeknightWriters
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 11h
I'm looking forward to the community and the cheering on. (I'm a little shy, so I just like people's posts and scream into the void.) And also the writing part! I haven't been this excited for a project for a long, long time. #WeeknightWriters
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 11h
Word count. I'll be aiming for the 50k (since I'm doing NovNov as well as #FirstDraftFall) but finishing the draft would be nice too. (I'm thinking this'll probably end up between 85-100k.) #WeeknightWriters
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 11h
Answered this with the last question, oops. Well... It's historical (1920s) it's queer (MC is a bi trans man) it's Black AF, it's horror (the MC will nearly get ritually sacrificed) there's some romance (the evil god shoved in his body takes a shine to him...) It's a lot, lol. #WeeknightWriters
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 12h
Like I said in my intro, I'm writing historical queer horror. It's about a Black trans guy in the 1920s who gets a (probably evil) god shoved in his body after a botched cult ritual. The god gives him the body he wants, they smite racists/queerphobes, and reinvent the world. #WeeknightWriters
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 12h
Hi! I'm A.M! I write books that center black queer characters. My project is a historical queer horror about a cult victim who has an evil god shoved in his body. My #FirstDraftFall planning is going well! I've been reading books on/that take place in the 1920s and Black horror. #WeeknightWriters
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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 20h
actual hot take: y'all, generally speaking, are not interested in supporting BIPOC and queer authors when they are not writing about Hurt and Trauma because it's not educational to you. even if the books have BIPOC and queer casts and are in new settings.
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Avery Storm (they/them) 🔞 | 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩 @averystorm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the sky is trans
Photo of a pink and blue sunset with tree silhouettes
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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 21h
Started as a little study and became another one of the 'Secret Society of Unpractical Headpieces in Space' series (that still does not exist) 🪐
Illustration by Eleonor Piteira showing a black woman with an elaborate golden headpiece. Her hair is curly and long, she's wearing a dress, and gold and blue make up on her eyes. She is framed by a circle and behind her there is a space view with a star and small planets.
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 21h
My #FirstDraftFall project is a queer historical horror about a Black trans man who gets an evil god shoved in his body after a botched cult ritual. They team up and turn racists/queerphobes into pillars of salt, fall in a twisted love, and raze the world and recreate it in their own image. (cont)
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 22h
Didn't have injury that wasn't in a snip I'd already shared, so here's my MC getting injured. (CW: Police Violence) There's a reason why all the thieves he's descended from died young... (The woman was possessed by the jewelry, rip) From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips
Before I could finish my sentence, at least twenty police officers spilled through the fire exit, guns at the ready. Oh, this looked terrible. Big Black guy with a waif of a white woman who looked terrified? Dudes had been killed for less. 
	Time for the window again. I was not becoming Swiss cheese tonight.
	I summoned my wings, and did a running jump through the window—
	A deafening bang echoed through the room as one of the cops shot at me, and got me in the shoulder. A deep, rolling pain shot down my arm, and when I tried to move my hand, I couldn’t. I cried out in pain, but broke through the glass and flew off to another high rise anyway.
	As soon as I landed, I took a good look at the wound. It was deeper than I expected, and blood was slowly oozing from it and staining my suit. My vision blurred just looking at it. I couldn’t faint here. I wouldn’t faint here. 
	But it said something about my magically enhanced body that I didn’t die on the spot. 
	Void swore loudly in Imirionian. “I don’t know if I can heal this completely.”
	“I’ll… I’ll purify the jewelry first,” I said quietly. 
	I pulled “The Heavenly Wing” out of my pocket with my good hand—my left—and focused my energy on evicting it and sending it back to Imirion. If it wasn’t for the fact that I’d nearly died getting it, it’d be a lovely piece of jewelry, a small piece of gold and crystal in the shape of an angel wing. 
	But even as I tried, the pain in my shoulder got worse and worse, and I cried out again, tears streaming down my face. My magic circle faltered.
	“You can do it,” they said quietly. 
	“Right. Right…” 
	I focused even harder, and punted it right back to Imirion, my magic burning through my entire body, then collapsed to the concrete.
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 22h
As per usual, I'm A.M., a Black transmasc writer of Black and queer urban fantasies and paranormal romances. Currently I'm writing 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP (exactly what it says on the tin lol) and doing research for 1920s cult victim/evil god WIP for NovNov. #QueerPrompts
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 22h
Hi! I'm A.M., a Black transmasc writer of urban fantasies and paranormal romances that center Black queer characters. Goals for this month: - Finish 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP (about 20k to go on that) - Do planning and research for cult victim/evil god WIP #LGBTQWriteAThon
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cari •ᴗ• @caridescent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
on my puter 🐟
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Pictures Of Kirby To Brighten Up Your Day (Mirror) @kirbypictures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kirby plush keychain hitting that one pose where he's standing on one foot
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unfortunately, since my stories take place in what's more or less the real world (except with magic) they're not queernormative at all. 😮‍💨 I try not to have my stories be about The Queer Struggle™ but there's still that heteronormativity hanging over everyone's heads. #QueerPrompts
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
28 September 1972, Motown released The Temptations version of ‘Papa Was a Rollin' Stone’. Written by Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong in 1971, The Temptations version was a No.1 hit on the Billboard chart and won 3 Grammys. The song was originally recorded by The Undisputed Truth. #Temptations
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not too many goals this week... - don't flunk my next exam (it's tomorrow 💀) - write 5k on 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP (it has roughly 15-30k to go and I said I'd try to finish it over October) - do more planning on cult victim/evil god WIP for NovNov #queerwriters
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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
did you know that you don't have to write what most people write, or even what most people want to read? shocking but true
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SAMUEL🪽 (ยืนยันแล้ว) @samuel-muc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MUC #MU_Commu Samuel Del. Solenne “Come on, don’t look so serious. I’m much more fun than I look.” “Relax. If I wanted to cause trouble, you’d know.” __ School of Science | Y.1 | EEK 240 cm | AURENIM [SOCIALS : 👁️‍🗨️🪽] __ DOC : shorturl.asia/r0vqvv (Talk / Co / Role → DM — 24/7, Always Welcome)
CMS - Ga Ba Ra
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've told myself that I'm gonna knock out the last 20-30k of 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP in October so I can work on evil god/cult victim WIP (working title: The Perdition of Roland Matthews) Just gotta hope that school doesn't kick my ass. 😭 #writesky #writingcommunity #blackwriters
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Kirby Informer @kirbyinformer.com · 26/09/2026
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Preview, Nintendo Power Vol. 277 (September 2011) ⭐️
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Diebbie @diebbie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
mismagius 💜
mismagius pokemon fanart
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I (hopefully) passed a fuck you exam (25% of my grade...) got told that my piece in my fiction writing class was the best of my group, and started planning a new WIP, so I'm pretty happy with everything. 😀 #queerwriters
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks for hosting! It feels good to do one of these... I think I haven't done one since July, lol. Anyway, here's my website! Bi visibility day was a few days ago, and all my MCs are bi! (Please buy my books, I'm having a 0 dollar month...😭) ambooneauthor.com #QueerWritersChat
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A.M. Boone, Author
Puts the urban in urban fantasy
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP takes place over late summer/early fall and goes into winter, while evil god/cult victim will probably start in winter and go into spring. (I think they're both fitting.) #QueerWritersChat
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Leo likes having picnics. Roland enjoys playing in the snow and making snow angels. #QueerWritersChat
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Leo (40-something trans dude phantom thief) likes spring because watching flowers bloom is lovely. Roland (evil god/cult victim) likes winter because of the snow. #QueerWritersChat
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hi! I'm A.M., a Black transmasc writer of Black and queer urban fantasies and paranormal romances. I'm currently writing a 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP, and planning an evil god/cult victim historical horror romance for NovNov. #QueerWritersChat #writesky
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Getlucky12341 @getlucky12341.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They literally allow wanted criminals at Universal Studios
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Still rotating this cult victim/evil god idea... I think it might be M/M? (I've never written straight up M/M before, just M/M/F and whychoose with M/M scenes, so this is uncharted territory lol) From my notes: "at least one racist will be turned into a pillar of salt" #writingcommunity
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Aubrey 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today we celebrate being soft creatures of liminal space and time, or bisexual visibility day, whatever you wanna call it
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Dirty" Mountain Dew is *foul,* dear lord. It's the worst part of cream soda and the worst part of Mountain Dew. (And I love both! But this was a marriage made in hell.) #ew
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm still riding the high of my fiction writing class voting my piece the best of my group's, so I might expand it into a full novel... Basically a horror romance between the victim of a cult and the evil god shoved into their body... they destroy the world or something idk #writingcommunity
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Pictures Of Kirby To Brighten Up Your Day (Mirror) @kirbypictures.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Plushies of Waddle Dee and Kirby holding hands and raising the other hand
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Kirby Informer @kirbyinformer.com · 22/09/2026
18 years ago today, Kirby Super Star Ultra was released on the Nintendo DS! Happy Anniversary! ✨
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have learned the hard way that shilling on Bluesky helps with sales. (Who would have thunk it.) Anyway, I'm back. 👋 I took a break because of school beating my ass, but here I am with my weird queer black stuff again.
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nope! I really want to, though. (I contemplated going to a few, but they were either in the midwest or deep south, and there's no way in hell that I'm dragging my trans ass there, lmao) #SummerOfStories
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The entire story gets kicked off when the MC has a magical talking plushie fall on his head during a bender and tell him he's the only descendant of a famous phantom thief and that he has to save innocents from cursed artwork/jewelry. So yeah. Whole lotta supernatural elements. 😂 #QueerPrompts
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This was from one of the later instances of Leo's phantom thievery. (But before the one where he unraveled and realized he was a dude.) Breaking into a mall to steal jewelry, tsk tsk... I guess it's okay because it's cursed. From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips
And I launched myself into the air. As soon as I got above the crowd, they surged forward, snapping pictures of me, and cheering my name. It felt… right, almost. 
	“Evenin’, everyone!” I shouted. “Just picking up ‘The Obsidian Droplet,’ don’t mind me.”
	God, being Veilwhisper had changed me. Was it for the better or worse? I didn’t know—and frankly, I didn’t want to know. All I knew was that I was having fun, and right now, that’s all that mattered.
	I flew over to the Whole Foods, and did a gentle, three point landing before jogging over to the fire exit and prying open the doors with my rapier. As soon as the doors popped open, an ear-piercing alarm started to wail, and I clapped my hands over my ears. 
	A few cops slowly approached me, guns out, but I jerked my hand upward, and all their guns floated into the air. 	
	“W-what the hell are you?” one of the cops choked out. 
	“A phantom thief.” I gave him a cocky smirk. “Nothing more, nothing less.”
	“This isn’t the time to be cocky, Veilwhisper,” Void said. “Let’s finish this.”
	“Right.”
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just finished The Vampire Lestat, and what the fuck was that.
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Director_Kumazaki /熊崎信也 🎮 @director-kumazaki.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Virtual Boy mug. 31st anniversary☕️🎮✨ Kirby was reflected in the mug.😌   バーチャルボーイ31周年ですね。   あの、 バーチャルボーイマグカップに、 カービィ が反射して😌🎮✨ ーーーーーーーーーーーー #games #virtualboy #バーチャルボーイ #ゲーム
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very lowkey goals this week: - Get to 85k on 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP (currently at 72k, so completely doable) - keep surviving summer classes - start cleaning the house so the cat sitter doesn't think I'm a slob when I leave for vacation - work on TTRPG stuff #queerwriters
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Didn't have unfazed, so I went with calm. (Yet another) hairline fracture in the 🥚. He claimed that he couldn't be Leo permanently for the longest time before finally unraveling. (About 50 pages later. 😂) From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips
As soon as she closed the door behind her, Void popped out of my hoodie pocket. 
	“We need to talk.” 
	“Yeah. I know. They’re a ‘distraction,’ and if I keep locking lips with them, I’ll die and Adrienne will have to be Veilwhisper.” 
	“Not just that… You’ve been acting more recklessly lately. Why?”
	The word hit me like a slap. That was a good question. A really good question. 
	“I dunno… Maybe it’s just the freedom I get when I’m Veilwhisper. I don’t have any baggage. I can be glamorous, cool, calm and collected… Not just some midlife crisis having overworked sad office lady whose husband cheated. I can be Leo, not Lydia.”
	Lysander muttered something about soul searching, and I gave him a dirty look. I’d done my soul searching and come to the conclusion that nothing could change. At least not until the divorce was finalized. Then I could make a decision. Maybe.
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I write romance because I just love a happy ending and two (or more!) people being in bliss with each other. I write paranormal/fantasy because the real world is boring and would be much better off with magic and supernatural creatures. So yeah. That's why I write those genres. #SummerOfStories
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Leo likes the freedom he gets from being queer. He lived the first 41 years of his life as a cishet woman, and finally being able to be his true self is incredibly freeing. (Even if he only got that freedom through magical bullshit, lol.) #QueerPrompts
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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Have I used this snip before? IDK. But this is another bit from the first time Leo did a phantom thievery. Lysander's right, confidence gets you a long way, but not that long of a way. From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips

	I pulled the coin out of my pocket, held it to my chest, then cried, “Power of the Phantom Veil! Give me strength!” 
	And just like always, everything happened, then nothing happened. I gently landed on the concrete roof, my shoes clicking against the top of the building. My wings were already out. I took a deep breath. Lysander and Void were right. I could do this.
	“Well, Veilwhisper,” Void said, hovering next to me. “It’s time for your debut. What are you going to say?”
	“Uh. I didn’t get that far,” I said.
	“Be confidant. Confidence gets you a long way,” Lysander said. 
	“Okay.” 
	What had Silvershadow said? Something about righting wrongs and triumphing over evil… 
	I took another breath, then yelled, “I am the phantom thief Veilwhisper, and tonight, I’m going to blow your fucking minds!”
	“Oh, dear. Perhaps a little too confident.”
	I steeled my nerves, then jumped off the building.
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