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Edgar Gomez

@otroedgargomez.bsky.social
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🇳🇮🇵🇷 Author of ALLIGATOR TEARS (‘25) and HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL (‘22) / Lambda Literary Award. American Book Award.

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 10/12/2025
“It’s healthy to take a break sometimes to be a fan and remember the larger legacy you’re a part of,” writes @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, author of Alligator Tears (Crown). Read on: at.pw.org/WRGomez
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Spencer Jenkins @spencerjenkins.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Buy this book too. “Alligator Tears” by @otroedgargomez.bsky.social
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is the page in the history book where future generations may ask, “Why didn’t more people speak up?" Don’t let this slide.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Tried to dance along with a Tina Turner performance and lasted one minute before collapsing onto the floor and lying there heaving...
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information! #dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks
Mark Your Calendars #DVpit is returning October 8, 2025. The original pitch event for creators from marginalized communities. Now on Bluesky! Follow us at @dvpit.bsky.social for more updatesAgents and Editors participating in DVpit 2025 on Bluesky. Here is an initial list of some of the participating agents and editors

Gallt & Zacker:
Marietta Zacker
Beth Phelan
Linda Camacho
Erin Casey Westin
Sandra Proudman
Saribel Pages
Andrea Brown Literary:
Kelly Sonnack
Jemiscoe Chambers-Black
Jennifer March Soloway
Saritza Hernández
Analía Cabello
Paige Terlip
Azantian Literary:
Shelly Romero
Carey Blankenship-Kramer
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret:
Michaela Whatnall
Folio Literary: 
John Cusick
Gelfman Schneider: 
Penelope Burns
HG Literary:
Wendi Gu
Jill Grinberg Literary:
Katelyn Detweiler
Mad Woman Literary:
Alex Brown
Danielle Burby
Chelsea Hensley
Neighborhood Literary:
Eric Smith
Rebecca Podos
New Leaf:
Jo Volpe
Suzie Townsend
Sophia M. Ramos
Trinica Sampson-Vera
Jordan Hill
Page Street Publishing
Tamara Grasty
Park, Fine & Brower:
Pete Knapp
Stuti Telidevara
Root Literary:
Melanie Figueroa
Samantha Fabien
Simon & Schuster:
Rebecca Kuss
Sourcebooks:
Mikaela Luke
Triada US:
Brent Taylor
Uwe Stender
Ashley Reisinger
Moe Ferrara
Writers House:
Alexandra Levick
Andrea Morrison

Follow us at #dvpit.bsky.social for more updates!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/06/2025
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Two days left to apply ✨
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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Loving @otroedgargomez.bsky.social’s latest, Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays, which is full of moving, beautiful writing like this passage and more than a few laughs, too. #booksky #lgbtqwriters
“One of my biggest fears as a child was that I wouldn't be ready for the rapture: the day when, out of nowhere, all the perfect, sinless people would be sucked up to the sky and the regular ones would be left behind. I'm not particularly religious anymore, but some days it
eels like we're already living it. When I look around me,I don't see
any perfect people; just normal, flawed human beings trying to make the best with what they have. The volunteers at Love Wins, who are up before the sun is out to feed families in the neighborhood. Lesly and the students of Mirror, who insist on a life that is dignified and beautiful. The friends who housed and fed me in the pandemic, the co-workers I shared birthdays with in break rooms. My mom, who put on a pair of giant black sunglasses and lipstick to bring fruit to the ladies at her local pantry.

It frustrates me to think that the people I love may never be rewarded with everything they deserve, but I'm comforted by the fact that they don't let the current bleakness of the world keep them from fighting to make it a better place. Every day they claim their joy, dreaming out loud with me on the phone, dancing in line outside Friend's, marching through the streets.

I don't know what happens after, when this is all over. But wher-
ever they're going, that's where I'm trying to go too.”
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Books I’ve been reading lately. I like seeing them laid out and tracing how one led to picking up the next. Usually not a horror/gore person in movies (I get too freaked out) but it’s been kinda fun reading scary shit, apocalyptic scenarios, monsters. Looking for more recs along that lane.
A photo of several books on a table.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Write your memoir/essay collection with me! Starting this June, I'll be teaching a 10-month memoir workshop with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social. Details to apply are on the class page, where you'll also find a video of me explaining how our time together will go: writer.org/event/memoir...
Flier for 10-month memoir workshop with Edgar Gomez at The Writer's Center. Headshot of Edgar Gomez with a blue background.
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Sam Herschel Wein @samforbreakfast.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It’s not every day you get to interview a total dreamboat about their new book 🥲🥲🥲 check out this cute convo @otroedgargomez.bsky.social and I had in @foglifter.bsky.social!!!!
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Open Secrets Magazine @opensecretsmag.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our May 3 identity panel: @saribotton.bsky.social @brosandprose.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, @debbiemillman.bsky.social, and @carmenritawong.bsky.social opensecretsmagazine.com/p/open-secre... @duttonbooks.bsky.social @timberpress.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social
Open Secrets Live identity panel, featuring Sari Botton, Ella Dawson, Kari Ferrell, Edgar Gomez, Debbie Millman, Carmen Rita Wong
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“Tenderly sweet, heart-wrenching, and comical.” Thank you @samforbreakfast.bsky.social and Foglifter Journal for such a fun conversation about crafting Alligator Tears, why Top Model was my bible as a kid, and as usual, my mom. ❤️ www.foglifterjournal.com/alligator-te...
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Alligator Tears Interview — Foglifter Journal & Press
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
TFW your literary hero emails you saying they liked your book 🥲
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a young boy in a blue shirt is talking to a woman in front of a microphone .
ALT: a young boy in a blue shirt is talking to a woman in front of a microphone .
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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I reviewed @otroedgargomez.bsky.social's gender-bending, genre-defying memoir, Alligator Tears, for @worldlittoday.bsky.social. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/all...
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Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez
Crown. 2025. 256 pages.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🔴The Myth of the 'De-Extinction' of the Dire Wolf Don't be fooled by reports of extinct animals being brought back to life, argues genetic researcher Jonathan Roberts. The truth is much scarier www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-myth-o...
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The Myth of the 'De-Extinction' of the Dire Wolf
Don't be fooled by reports of extinct animals being brought back to life, argues genetic researcher Jonathan Roberts. The truth is much scarier
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“Empowering and entertaining… Gomez is able to keep the witty prose percolating even while chronicling a series of nearly insurmountable troubles. This is another winner for the multi-talented queer Latinx.” Thank you Jim Picheota at The Bay Area Reporter! 🐊🥲❤️ www.ebar.com/story/154092/
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Spring Books 2025 round-up, part 3: Obsessions, revealing memoirs & a ‘Wicked’ prequel
Here’s the third installment of our Spring books round-up, with thought-provoking stories from a trans author, self-reflective queer memoirs including one from a longtime AIDS-era survivor, and both f...
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Amigayyysss, I’m so excited to be back at the LA Times Festival of Books later this month! 🌴📚 I’ll be on a panel titled A Life in Essays with Suzy Exposito, Manuel Betancourt, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. Hope to see you there! @latimes.com #latimesfob
Flier for “A life in essays” panel with headshots of Edgar Gomez, Manuel Betancourt, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. 

Text reads: FIND ME AT
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FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
APRIL 26-27, 2025 | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Many stories. One weekend.
YEARS
De Los and The LA Times en Español present
"A Life in Essays," moderated by Suzy Exposito Featuring Edgar Gomez, Manuel Betancourt, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Congratulations Elyssa Goodman on 11 years of the @missmanhattanny.bsky.social reading series!!! So happy and honored to be a part of the celebration along with Peter Trachtenberg, Mary Gaitskill, and Mia Arias Tsang. 💅📚
Writers smiling on stage, with Elyssa Goodman in the middle holding a Miss Manhattan tote bag.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In this alternate cut they get in an argument about Drag Race on the train (Jesse only watches the US franchise…) but they make up bc he has some Double Scorpio on him and they spend the night queening out at a 24hrs bathhouse in Vienna. 💅🚂🥰
A scene from Before Sunrise with characters played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke on the train smiling flirtatiously at each other. Delpy holds up the book Alligator Tears, Hawke holds up High-Risk Homosexual.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What's the book version of an EGOT? National Book Award, American Book Award, Pulitzer? I'm trying to win a NAP...
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wowow super happy today to see this stunning review of Alligator Tears in The Southern Review of Books. For Floridaaaaa!!! ❤️❤️❤️ southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/24/a...
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“Alligator Tears” Traces a Zig‑Zag Escape from Poverty
A review of the memoir “Alligator Tears” by Edgar Gomez.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Tucson 🌵
Green cactus against blue sky Skinny spiky plants with red tips against desert blue sky
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Kathryn Schipper @ravenala.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Detail of progress on “Snack Time,” my illustration of damage by Chinese Rose Beetles (Adoretus sinicus) to cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Hawaii. Colored pencil, colored ink and graphite. #botanicalart #SciArt #tropicalagriculture #cacao #illustration #workinprogress
Illustration in colored pencil, colored ink and graphite of cacao leaves skeletonized by beetles.
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Had a v lovely, v gay discussion with @otroedgargomez.bsky.social at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn the other night.✨
Edgar Gomez and Jackie Domenus sitting in chairs holding microphones in front of a mural of colorful, mythical creatures.Jackie Domenus and Edgar Gomez posing with a seated audience behind them in a bookstore.Copies of No Offense and Alligator Tears displayed on a table with stickers and miscellaneous items.Edgar Gomez and Jackie Domenus standing back to back holding their books in front of a mural of colorful, mythical creatures.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Good news is I have an idea for an essay; bad news is it was inspired by a random man screaming at me at a bar the other day about how much he hates Florida????
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tomorrow night in Brooklyn!
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Alligator Tears has been out for one month today! If you’ve gotten a copy, shared good news, or thought about it for even just one second, thank you thank you thank you. 💕
Selfie of Edgar Gomez holding a copy of Alligator Tears. Behind Edgar there are plants and flowers. Edgar wears a Strand New York City t-shirt.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Half way through Jeanne Thornton’s new book, A/S/L, and already loving it. Vulnerable, tender-hearted, gorgeous prose, earnest and complicated characters, took me back to AOL times and playing Age of Empires/ catfishing zaddies on my kitchen computer. Put this one on your TBR 👾🎮
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Had a lovely conversation with The Writer’s Club NYC about the differences between writing my first book vs Alligator Tears and how growing up poor impacts my craft and storytelling 🐊🥲 substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Processing: Edgar Gomez on writing and publishing his second book, "Alligator Tears"
"The real shame is that we live in a country with so much abundance, where rich people get wealthier and wealthier off our labor while the rest of the country stays hungry."
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Pete's Reading Series @petesreading.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Thursday 3/20! Come & be dazzled by readings from Jinwoo Chong, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social , @paullisicky.bsky.social , & Olivia Wolfgang Smith. With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social , & books sold by @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Woo! USA Today says Alligator Tears is “a big-hearted, humorous portrait of a queer coming-of-age Central Florida.” 🍊💕 www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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Need a new book? 15 new releases you can read right now
We've got your next great read right here. Our latest roundup of new releases has thrillers, romance, historical fiction and more books from February.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It's my birthday today babe!!! What I would love most is if you could give a little bit of money to @zebra_youth, an organization that helps queer youth in Florida. They offer housing for kids experiencing homelessness, scholarships, mental health resources, and more. zebrayouth.org/donate/
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Donate - Zebra Youth
Your support ensures Zebra Youth will continue providing life-saving resources and care to LGBTQ+ youth right here in Central Florida. Whether you make a monetary donation today, leave a bequest…
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
So excited for the Tucson Festival of Books next week! 🌵☀️ Come say hi, I’ll be on panels Saturday (“In Search of the American Dream”) and Sunday (“Bold and Unapologetic”).
Flier for Tucson Festival of Books. There’s a picture of Edgar Gomez and the book cover for Alligator Tears. There’s dates are March 15-16 at the University of Arizona Campus. More info at www.tucsonfestivalofbooms.org
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Come through!!! March 10th we’re celebrating Franklin Park’s 16th birthday 🥳
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I *get* why people are still on Twitter but also… girl why are people still on Twitter 👀
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If you've read Alligator Tears, I spoke to icon and legend @mindahoney.bsky.social about the turtle passage in the Pulse essay for Harvard's @niemanstoryboard.org. Check it out if you wanna read about what went into writing that one low-key bittersweet scene from the book 🐊🥲🐢
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Brooklyn homosexuoirs!!! Save the date. March 13th, @jackiedwrites.bsky.social and I will be at The Nonbinarian Bookstore reading from our new books and talking about queer memoir. Come throughhhhh❤️❤️❤️
Flier for event at nonbinarian bookstore. There are stars and graphics that look like they’re from a throwback high school journal along with headshots of Edgar Gomez and Jackie Domenus. The event is on March 13th at 7pm.
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
PSA if your 8 yr old nephew says “Come look at something cool in the bathroom!” it is NOT worth it….
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Sarah Lyn @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
IT'S HER DAY: Cosmic Tantrum is out now!! 🔮 ⚡ 🖤 ✨ 🪐 I celebrated by asking @bonelesskoi.bsky.social, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social, Lena Moses-Schmitt, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Leigh Stein, and @candicewuehle.bsky.social about cosmic tantrums, our child-selves, and what poetry can do!
Aerial view of about six copies of Cosmic Tantrum, plus tarot cards, big chunky crystals, and a hint of Sarah’s cat entering the screen at bottom left
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Dale Corvino @dalecorvino.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Yea the state is crumbling, but I’ve got a 🏳️‍🌈, s*X affirming memoir to launch in 1 MONTH! Pre-order: bit.ly/AfterKept The gorg @otroedgargomez.bsky.social called it “…nothing short of a masterpiece. I swear this book activated something ancient and homosexual in me.” 🙈
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John C. Ronquillo @johnron.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A perfect snow day delivery. Huge congrats, @otroedgargomez.bsky.social! 🎉 Can’t wait to dive in!
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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
at the top of the hour! @otroedgargomez.bsky.social and i are coming at u live from @therumpus.net IG account 🤡
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It’s pub day and I have @queerty.com to thank for this beautiful headline and for featuring an excerpt of Alligator Tears on their site! Instead of a single chapter, they selected passages from throughout the book to capture the breadth of the story. ❤️🐊🥲 www.queerty.com/edgar-gomez-...
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Edgar Gomez on dollar store makeup tutorials, neon cocktails & mopping lube at a sex club - Queerty
Check out these exclusive excerpts from Gomez's new book "Alligator Tears," out tomorrow.
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Congratulations to @otroedgargomez.bsky.social on today's publication of ALLIGATOR TEARS with Crown! Edgar recently contributed to our folio on writing about sex.
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Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez: 9780593728543 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual “Relatable,...
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Aubrey Martinson @aubreymartinson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy pub day to @otroedgargomez.bsky.social!! It’s been a dream of mine to publish into the Florida Canon—thank you for making that come true. I am so, so proud to be your editor 💖🐊
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Edgar Gomez @otroedgargomez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thank you everyone who came to my Alligator Tears launch in NY last night!!! It ended up so perfectly, surrounded by people I love, everyone eating donuts and drinking Papi wine. I was up all night handsewing like a goblin trying to tailor my Walter Mercado cape (!!!).✨
Edgar Gomez and John Manuel Arias at the Alligator Tears launch party. John is wearing a cute black halter top, Edgar is in a forest green Walter Mercado cape. Edgar is shooting bubbles in the air. Edgar Gomez wears and forest green Walter Mercado cape and shoots bubbles in the air while standing behind a podium.
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Sarah Lyn @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy pub eve to @otroedgargomez.bsky.social and Alligator Tears! 🐊 Great launch tonight 💕
Sarah, in a shirt that reads “high-risk homosexual,” poses with Edgar, who wears a Walter Mercado capePhoto of the cover of Edgar’s memoir, Alligator Tears, with the bookstore Powerhouse Arena in the background
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