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🏳️‍🌈🩷📝 | bestselling author of queer romance | they/them | linktree.com/merylwilsner

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My favorite part of talking to doctors about being depressed is when they ask if I’ve ever thought of hurting myself and I’m always like “omg neverrrrrrr” when really it’s like “yes obviously but I’m not going to so don’t give me a grippy sock vacation”
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
me, brainstorming about the MC for my next book: gdi is this one autistic too?
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So this happened.
A graphic with the characters from the cover of CLEAT CUTE by Meryl Wilsner over a yellow background. Text reads “BIG NEWS!” Followed by a screenshot of a headline that reads “Amazon MGM Developing Queer Sports Rom-Com Series ‘Playing The Field’ Based On Meryl Wilsner’s ‘Cleat Cute’; Sarah Tapscott Set As Showrunner
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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I have a bet with @merylwilsner.bsky.social that whoever gets the highest bid gets to slap the loser in the face with a tortilla please. don't let me get tortilla'd.
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Multnomah County Library @multcolib.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Looking for a lesbian sports romance? Take it beyond a Heated Rivalry with Cleat Cute by @merylwilsner.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian
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Cleat Cute — Multnomah County Library
Cleat Cute — Wilsner, Meryl, — "A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women's National Team for ten years, even though she's only 26. But when she's sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn't--a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become teammates with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival. Phoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her longtime idol. But when Grace ends up making the first move, they can't keep their hands off of each other. As the World Cup approaches and Grace works her way back from injury, a miscommunication leaves the women with hilariously different perspectives on their relationship. But they're on the same page on the field, realizing they can play together instead of vying for the same position. With every tackle the tension between them grows, and both players soon have to decide what's more important-being together or making the roster. The perfect blend of funny and steamy, Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute is about being brave enough to win on and off the field"--
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/02/2026
Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.
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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I worked up a little newsletter piece about how basic writercraft is rapidly becoming a thing of the romance publishing past—and how it's a past I'm very glad I was a part of. I also touch on how fanfic ties in. romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/which-way-...
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Which Way to Craft Services?
Without directions and a little guidance, it’s easy for romance writers to get lost.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026
You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Recs for gender inclusive books for a tween learning about puberty?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Actually the question that occurs to me is "will you nominate him anyway even after years of people telling you they won't vote for him if you do, and then when you lose as you were warned you would, will you blame not yourselves but the people who warned you."
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
okay well this is one ongoing panic off my mind at least
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
finally available as a shirt!!!! 🦂🏳️‍⚧️
a black t-shirt that reads "don't want to see trans people? pluck out your eyes." in the middle of the shirt is a hand holding a scorpion by the tail. between the scorpion's claws is a human eyeball
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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 16/10/2025
Cool for the Summer is 20% off in paperback for Banned Book Week using code BBW25 at Bookshop! bookshop.org/a/2228/97812... (You can check out the entire great list of books to support thanks to the partnership of We Need Diverse Books here: bookshop.org/info/banned-...) 🌈📚
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Cool for the Summer
Check out Cool for the Summer - <p><b>Lara finally lands the guy of her dreams, only to have her unexpected(ly female) summer fling transfer to her school, in Dahlia Adler's beloved award-winning YA q...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Reminder this holiday season that donating to the SA sucks. Ignore the red buckets.
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Being intentional in word choice/sentence structure/etc for my autistic main character and I just know people are going to read her point of view and claim I’m a bad writer bc it’s very plain and matter of fact 🙃🙃🙃
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Here to be very on brand and say Naomi Osaka’s mother is 🔥🥵
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I’m at the point in drafting where I need to reread the beginning so I can make sure I nail the end and, hey! This book is pretty good!!!
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social
9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place.

This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New books by Regina Black, Mary Roach, AND Anita Kelly today!!!!
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I’ve been quietly weeping for a half an hour as I finished listening to Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. My god.
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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
you know i keep that thang on me (cherishing my wife)
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Just finished our rewatch of The Leftovers and that remains the greatest finale of all time
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Cam @abnormalamanda.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Every @merylwilsner.bsky.social book is a banger and this sexy sapphic sports romance Cleat Cute is absolutely no exception. Incredible addition to my July reads
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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Reminder that I'm teaching a seminar with Writer's Workshops next Monday and we still have spots open! writingworkshops.com/products/a-g...
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What is Voice? A Guide to Discovering and Sharpening Your Voice
If you've ever been confused about what a writer's voice is or concerned about finding your voice as a writer, this course is for you at WritingWorkshops.com.
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
It was me! And I'm incredibly grateful to Felicia for educating me on Substack's issues. My newsletter is now available through Kit, instead. merylwilsner.kit.com/posts/update...
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Update: Supporting transphobia is a choice
It was months ago that I first heard multiple books that began as Harry Potter fanfic were being traditionally published.
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Zay The 5’6 Giant @xaviersmith.blacksky.app · 09/07/2025
Every word. Bar for bar. Verbatim. All of it this feels validating seeing somebody put this in words I couldn’t. I almost died during that year but every thing he said is exactly how I felt during that time minus fighting the virus with no insurance and when a vaccine wasn’t in existence
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The Devil Wears Prada 2 cast is a murder attempt on lesbians everywhere
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 27/06/2025
Doing a thing for a Pride thing
Sword cutting through darkness with trans flag colored flames.

Text: "Our joy is a sword"
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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Authors in Conversation: Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond Today on the site I'm delighted to welcome Sapphic Romance authors Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond, whose newest releases (The Next Chapter and Bed and Breakup, respectively) both release this month! Here's a little bit about each book, as…
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Authors in Conversation: Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond
Today on the site I'm delighted to welcome Sapphic Romance authors Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond, whose newest releases (The Next Chapter and Bed and Breakup, respectively) both release this month! Here's a little bit about each book, as told by the authors: Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond is a second-chance romance about two ex-wives who fell in love while renovating a historic inn in a quirky spa town in the Ozarks.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
There is so much history happening, if you're a future historian please tell everyone I said aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thank you
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
my pride month hot take is that episodes of drag race should include qr codes during the queens’ runways so viewers can tip them
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
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Natalie Pudim @luckoftheharbor.com · 06/06/2025
As a femme who mostly dates nonbinary folks, I am LOVING how @merylwilsner.bsky.social lusciously describes nonbinary bodies in My Best Friend's Honeymoon. So hot 🔥🥵
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/05/2025
Also reminder to romance authors that we only shoot ourselves in the foot if we try to play the "but we're not porn" game. Those of us who write hot/queer already get clipped on a regular basis, but nothing is "respectable" enough. Your turn WILL come.
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This is a real life picture of me
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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
the queers are taking the pitch perfect cast one by one and i think that's beautiful
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I'm sorry I'm not done yelling about how fucking violent and cruel this policy is-- I just went by an encampment that was being swept to drop off donation and it was fucking crushing. Venmo @love-and-justice to pitch in for all our unhousend neighbors who have NOWHERE TO GO now.
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