Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I had just moved to Chicago, and was three weeks into my first “real” job. I was on the 31st floor of a building in the Loop, and because I didn’t turn on the TV that morning, it wasn’t until I got off the elevator at the office that I heard about the World Trade Center 110
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Farewell to Dolly, an artist, an icon, a legend, a sister, a daughter, and a mother to millions. We won't see her like on this earth again and we were all richer for breathing air at the same time she did. 5869143
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026IT’S HERE! My ooky, spooky mg debut, CREEPY KID, is on shelves as of today! It’s a ghost story about grief and fitting in and making friends with an annoying dead girl who has a cursed doll named Baby Jessica, and I can’t wait for readers to meet Poe 🖤🖤🖤👻 161
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigJames @feelieking.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Choose your top 25 favourite books. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews. (Yes, I'm treating some series as single books for this meme, and some not - don't at me.) Day 11: Teach the Torches to Burn by @calebroehrig.bsky.social 221
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigSam Stark @samstarkva.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Finished the narration for @calebroehrig.bsky.social's wonderful book "Creepy Kid" from @harpercollins.bsky.social last week and oof, I needed a good cry. I mean what!? I'm not crying, You're crying! #AudiobookNarrator #Audiobooks #Audiobookcommunity #Narrator www.harpercollins.com/products/cre...harpercollins.comCreepy KidA hilariously creepy middle grade novel from award-winning author Caleb Roehrig! Poe has spent his whole life wishing he could meet a ghost, but when he mov... 141
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I don’t love how every antisocial aspect of Twitter that gets replicated over here is then treated as a unique facet of Bluesky’s culture. Dogpiling is a Twitter thing and it’s still happening exponentially more on X than here 422002211
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigRS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok 151387303
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 08/12/2025🚨 COVER REVEAL!! 🚨 I am so thrilled to share the cover for my upcoming debut middle grade title, CREEPY KID! It’s about a boy whose new house is haunted by two ghosts—and only he can help them move on. It comes out on August 25, but it’s available for preorder now! 📚: bookshop.org/beta-search?... 3132
Reposted by Caleb Roehrigdoenahld @100showtunes.com · 05/11/2025I feel like the universe just played Fuck-Mary-Kill with Jonathan Bailey, Zohar Mamdani, and Dick Cheney 636391
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2025This is what it feels like to be the last person on the internet who is Normal about Taylor Swift 060
Reposted by Caleb Roehrigbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 12/09/2025BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you 1778891306
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigTravis Knight @travisknight.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I fixed the Cracker Barrel logo if anyone is interested! #illustration #branding 6757391397
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS. 3370731419
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigProud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk · 18/07/2025I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED! is back in stock at proud-geek.co.uk. It’s a queer sci-fi anthology collecting Seventeen stupidly fun, often horny pulp sci-fi and fantasy stories published by @bonabooks.bsky.social #booksky 03413
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigBona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I Want That Twink… Nominated?! 🤯 We’re over the moon (and beyond) that IWTTO! is a finalist at the BFAs. 68823
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigCeleste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Trying to explain to my former Gen Z intern what the second Iraq War was like (he was 1 when it started), and honestly: Just know that every war in my lifetime has been started by a Republican president. Please remember that, no matter what bucket of lies the GOP tries to sell you, younger voters. 2875208
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025This is a reference to the iconic, Pulitzer-winning image of a Vietnam War protester. He later moved to SF, renamed himself Hibiscus and formed a drag troupe called the Cockettes. Happy Pride! 131888509
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I haven’t eaten at a Wendy’s since they pulled their ads from Ellen’s sitcom after she came out in 1997, and I haven’t used an Uber since they broke the strike line at JFK in 2017. It’s never too late to hold a grudge ☺️ 030
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 09/06/2025It takes less time to get from Santa Monica to San Diego than it does to downtown 041
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Warming my cold hands on the furious outrage over the Woke Marxist Pope ☺️ 160
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a 1481325086552
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead." 1153414178072
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Imagine having more money, power, and influence than 99% of the planet and using it all to foment violence and discrimination against a tiny minority group. What a soulless use of a privileged life. 0150
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigRyan La Sala @ryanlasala.bsky.social · 14/04/2025AHOY, BABE🛟✨ A little commotion for for the cover + synopsis of my next book THE DEAD OF SUMMER, please!! 4427
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11/04/2025When I was a child, the computers were the ones who would scream when we got online 381464213
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I moved to Finland in 2011, and cannot recall seeing a single unhoused person there in the past fourteen years 070
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Everything is terrible EXCEPT the B&N preorder sale! It ends today, but there’s still time to get 25% off the forthcoming paperback edition of TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN! Support LGBTQ+ books while you still can 🥳 Link: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/teach-the-... 041
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Twin Peaks changed me as a storyteller in the same way that Buffy did—but my favorite Lynch will always be the sublime and haunting Mulholland Drive. An ode to crushed dreams and the fantasy machine that is Hollywood, I feel lucky it happened in my lifetime. 1120
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The fact that the people who are pushing rednote right now are all the conspiracy theorists who keep falling for the same grift over and over is enough to keep me away from it 150
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Gay people face a number of challenges and having to get around all the slow walkers is one of them 1293
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Okay, I kinda fell off on here, but I’m BACK! 5160
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigBona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 15/05/2024"In Sheep's Clothing" by @calebroehrig.bsky.social!! 152
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 04/01/2024SURPRISE!! Another review is in for TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN, and this one is from School Library Journal! They call it “an essential purchase for all teen collections,” so when you hear me say that over and over now, it’s a direct quote!! 291
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 27/10/2023SURPRISE! My first MG title is coming your way, thanks to HarperCollins! It’s my Tim Burton-meets-MATILDA take on the creepy kid who sees dead people, and I’m having the time of my life. Can’t wait for readers to meet Poe! 5142
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigBona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2023Next, @calebroehrig.bsky.social, whose new TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN is one of the best queer Shakespearean retellings we’ve ever read. What if Romeo fell for Mercutio’s younger brother instead of Juliet? Lush, romantic, and gorgeously written. us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 1174
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigBona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2023We’re very excited to announce our brand-new STRETCH GOALS which we hope will be music to your ears! We’re aiming for £15K to produce a glorious AUDIOBOOK (free for Vogon tier backers and up)!! Please share! We’d love to make this happen! Full details: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon... 11213
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 14/09/2023All I’m going to say is that the last SFF short story I wrote was so much fun I developed the concept into THE FELL OF DARK, so lemme at this one, too?? Pretty please!? 062
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigBona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 14/09/202311.5 hours in and we’re 2/3 funded!!! £2500 more in the next 12 hours and we’ll have OBLITERATED that funding goal in a day!!! LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...kickstarter.comI Want That Twink OBLITERATED! - An Anthology of Queer SFFScience-fiction, fantasy and horror, inspired by classic pulp magazines, starring LGBTQIA+ heroes and villains. 187
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 28/08/2023FRIENDS! Guess who’s coming to YALLFEST this year?? I’m really looking forward to meeting readers face to face again, and trying to remember how to sign my own name 😭 032
Reposted by Caleb Roehrig🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 22/08/2023Happy book birthday to @calebroehrig.bsky.social’a glorious TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN, which I loved SO much! It plays with R+J in such clever ways that isn’t the typical genderflipping Juliet (she remains a character here as well), and the writing is just so beautiful and layered. 🥰 151
Reposted by Caleb RoehrigBrian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 22/08/2023I'm not usually into YA, but I make an exception for my buddy Caleb (@calebroehrig.bsky.social)'s witty, twisty, queer-queer-queer novels—and I'm so excited that a new one's out today! A Romeo & Juliet "remix" with cute boys. What better accompaniment to my (second, sigh) iced coffee this morning? 131
Caleb Roehrig @calebroehrig.bsky.social · 22/08/2023Today’s the day! TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN is finally on bookshelves ❤️ I’m so proud of this one, and so glad that Romeo & Valentine are getting their chance to shine!! AMZ: amazon.com/Teach-Torches-… B&N: barnesandnoble.com/w/teach-the-to IND: bookshop.org/p/books/teach- 41912