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Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ok, out of curiosity, can anyone think of an m/f romance cover like this?

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm giving away 5 arcs of my queer, trans, COVID-concsious cryptid hunter romcom LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS US only, ends Oct. 16 Enter: forms.gle/KeLWFuFacXsN...

A stack of the advance reading copies on the floor.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

becoming the guy who might wear shorts year round. i get it now, fellas. it's hot out there

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm currently reading the midpoint sex scene of my ARC and listen. You want the gruff grey-haired trans man who builds canoes with his bare hands and has a trunk full of kink gear and used to be in a punk band and is still trying to avoid COVID. You also want the giant salamander monster.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(looking at my problems) nothing that a good nap, a filling meal, an entire series of Taskmaster where the contestants mesh, two aspirin, a weekend at sea, and fifty-seven thousand dollars can't fix

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm giving away 5 arcs of my queer, trans, COVID-concsious cryptid hunter romcom LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS US only, ends Oct. 16 Enter: forms.gle/KeLWFuFacXsN...

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In this month's free newsletter, I wrote about crafting characters and why you can't rely on bullshit personality tests. For anything, but especially not that. Also, an arc giveaway for Love and Lake Monsters!

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Character Creation 101

Guess what, darlings? I have arcs to give away! Enter here. US only. 5 randomly selected winners will get an advance reader copy before Love and Lake...

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Character Creation 101

Guess what, darlings? I have arcs to give away! Enter here. US only. 5 randomly selected winners will get an advance reader copy before Love and Lake...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I first posted this I still thought I had a fall 2026 pub date but my editor had not informed me it had been pushed back 👍🥇🫠

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social. We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I cannot recommend enough, if you are someone who likes to read scary stuff in October to get into the Halloween spirit, reading The Haunting of Hill House. I'd reread it every year if I had the time

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ceej @ceej.online · 09/11/2024

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For my New York friends, the deadlines are based on boroughs and the soonest deadline is Brooklyn on Oct 11, the latest is Staten Island which won't open until November.

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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aaaaaaand I'm going to force Emma to talk about her own amazing upcoming book, YOU, ME, AND THE CONSPIRACY! 🎉

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

JUST can’t emphasize enough how … unbelievable … it feels that this piece is finally live. I hope folks will read and share.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember a few years ago when it was trendy to get those silly portraits of your pets dressed up in, like, Victorian clothes or similar? How can I find an artist that takes those commissions without involving any ai nonsense?

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E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've had friends whose books were pushed back by MONTHS and their publisher didn't tell them. Instead, they find out randomly from a reader asking about preorders or something. We (frequently) get paid on publication. Moving it and not telling us can cause financial disasters.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Paid subscribers, the winners for the arc giveaway have been picked. check your email : )

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've seen a lot of authors sharing links to their @buttondown.com newsletters that include both a link to an individual post AND a bonus add-on at the bottom of the link preview that gives an option to view the publication as a whole. Does anyone know how to turn on this feature?

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Laura Kendall @bookendedbyowls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Haven't been this excited for an ARC in a minute. LOVE anything @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social writes.

A 30-something person with fuschia hair geeking out about an ARC of Love and Lake Monsters by TJ Alexander.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

lmaoooo actually as an elder millennial I remember this being a thing! Before social media or robust chat room infrastructure some of the only places to talk with other kids was in the message boards of corporate brand websites. whole ass communities on jnco jeans dot com

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my wife and I had our 13th wedding anniversary recently and I think about our 1st anniversary all the time when my MIL gave us a HUGE framed photo she'd taken at the ceremony. my wife looked amazing, the most photogenic person in the world, BIG beautiful smile. I had my eyes closed.

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Books Yuuto @ozuyuuto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally had some time to sit and blast through the rest of this ARC! This was a wild ride, hunting the elusive cryptid while flirting shamelessly with the hot shut-in in the mountains. Also bless @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social for a Covid conscious character, I feel that on a deep personal level. 👏

Cover of the upcoming novel Love And Lake Monsters by TJ Alexander. Releases February 2027!

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Sonido Reyes @sonidoreyes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy book birthday to meeee 🎵🎶 To Our Untamed Core is OUT NOW! This book is incredibly special to me. It’s my first book with a trans protagonist, and my first book releasing with my new name. It’s terrifying and so so special. I am so grateful to finally be able to share this one with all of you💛

A selfie of Sonido Reyes with two braids in their hair smiling and holding their book, To our Untamed Core

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thinking again about @nathanburgoine.bsky.social's careful (and very gentle given how frustrating this shit can be!) essay on "who gets to tell their own stories, who profits the most from them, and what that means for queer men in these spaces/the culture" apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/t...

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The Shoulder Check Problem

Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

his campaign is calling this political ad "satire" but it's just a bunch of out of context clips put together to make it seem like people are mad at Hochul. You can find PLENTY of real life people who are mad at Hochul. Faking that isn't satire unless what they're actually satirizing is NY politics

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RE last reskeet, I have real doubts when people say "at least Democrats can be persuaded to be more pro trans at a later date, so vote them in now no matter how transphobic they seem" That's not what happened in the UK. Transphobia just got more acceptable

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026

This is what has happened with Labour in the UK. Most people don't believe that Labour could be transphobic - they aren't the Tories or Reform after all - and refuse to see it, and they are the most transphobic government of my life. So much harder to fight against, so much more damage done.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People will cut out artificial food dyes, spend hours at the gym, drink vitamin infused water…and then go to the airport and rawdog breathing in an airborne pathogen that can disable you permanenty and is basically guaranteed to be there.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ah, mid-Sept. It's practically October. Which, in the US, is basically November. That means Thanksgiving, which leads quickly into December and the winter holidays, so really I wouldn't be surprised if every email to a major publishing house from now until Jan 11 gets an OOO auto response

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's Bi Week! I'm bi and so is the cis MC in CHEF'S KISS. In my experience, bi folks are the likeliest partners of trans & nb people simply bc we tend not to spiral about what our partner's gender means for our identity. it's all good! it's ignorant to say being bisexual = inherently transphobic

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey NYC - Katherine Grant and I are hosting another romance read-in to benefit @authorsabb.bsky.social on 10/5! Come hang out, meet some of your favorite romance authors and raise money to fight book bans ❤️

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Romance Read-In to Benefit Authors Against Book Bans

It's Banned Books Week - so we're calling on romance readers to support Authors Against Book Bans and fight back against censorship!

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Aaron H. Aceves @aaronhaceves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's Bisexual Awareness Week! Be aware: I’m a bi Latino author who wrote a novel about a bi Latino teen growing up in East LA who tries to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else. It’s called This Is Why They Hate Us, and I hope you check it out!

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'll die on this hill, but it's cruel to accuse people who wear masks of having anxiety disorders. We don't do this to people who wear hard hats, condoms, medical gloves, sunglasses, life jackets, parachutes - the list is long!

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