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Will Forrest, the writer

@willthewriter.bsky.social
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Purveyor of nonbinary finery & queer romances for wounded hearts. AuDHD 🍁🦘🏳‍🌈🍉 No Space For Hate find my books at willforrest.com

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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Convincing you to preorder Author, Author with quotes of Ben overthinking: Living people kept on living…Kept on thinking about everything they might have done differently, every choice they wish they could make again. Life wasn’t a story, it was a strip of film—single exposure, no edits. No mercy.
Promo graphic for Will Forrest's novel Author, Author. A photo of an old typewriter, zoomed in on the sheet of paper sticking out of the carriage, showing a quote from the book. 
"Living people kept on living…Kept on thinking about everything they might have done differently, every choice they wish they could make again. Life wasn’t a story, it was a strip of film—single exposure, no edits. No mercy."
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I'm trying to plan for the rest of the year, and for the first time since I started self-publishing, all but one of my planned book releases are already written. That's very comforting. I'm tired of being in a rush.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
someone reboot the holodeck pls I am begging you 🙏 this simulation sucks
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Dropping in just to remind everyone that you can preorder my next book Author, Author & have it in your hot lil hands in just over TWO WEEKS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH In other news, don’t let me write any more characters with anxiety for a while, I channel that shit. books2read.com/authorauthor...
promo graphic for Will Forrest's next novel Author, Author: a Midcentury Gay Romance, showing the cover of the book and a list of the story tropes:
1950s NEW YORK
BANNED BOOKS
CELEBRITY CRUSH
SUNSHINE/GRUMP
PTSD & ANXIETY
“EVERYTHING FOR YOU”
QUEER SIDE CHARACTERS
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What does your brain look like while editing?
A red flag hangs from a gymnasium wall. It reads: we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I sat down to journal all the stressors that are making me bug out right now and the list was way shorter than I expected. Maybe I just need to drink less coffee.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I'm so tired... buy my books idk.
meme comparing two images. On the left a house on fire, with the caption "the world" and on the right a sad emoji face and an image of a book cover with the caption "me: so anyway I wrote this book..."
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
For a while I was "I'll stay on Threads to be a voice for my community" 🏳️‍🌈🥺✨ but seriously the LibGen shit is just so craven and pathetic that I don't know if I can give Meta any more of my free content. They've already stolen enough.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“Ru…is this all you’ll ever be? “It’s been good enough for you so far.” “There’s so much you’re denying yourself. I don’t mean socially, I mean here, in your heart.” “My heart is pickled.” “It’s not. You’re a good man, Ru.” “Then why is it so easy to be the worst?” #WIPsnips
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ShardsOfBlue @shardsofblue.com · 12/12/2024
After today I decided I never again want to waste my time arguing with cis gays about why supporting Harry Potter and the Queen of the TERFs is harmful, so I wrote a blog summarizing the whole thing. Please do share it widely instead of wasting yours.
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So someone told you supporting Harry Potter is anti-trans
So, someone told you that supporting Harry Potter is anti-trans, and you either asked for more information or decided to argue about it…
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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 04/03/2025
So this went from under 1000 signatures to almost 3000 in a matter of days. Can we get it up to 10,000 by the end of this month? (Hells, why not this week?)
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I once went to a conference about consent, and the one thing I never forget was when the presenter spoke about consent being *what the individual wants* and not what you think they want. True consent makes space for: "I hate everything that you're doing to me, don't ever stop."
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
BOOK SALE! It's Smashwords' 16th annual Read an Ebook Week and my whole on-site catalog is 50% off! Queer & MF smoochy shenanigans at anti-inflation prices - what's not to love? www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
Graphic for Will Forrest's books on Smashwords, to promote the Read an Ebook Week sale. A selection of Will's book covers are displayed on a subtle orange and gold background.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I'd be way more into Valentine's day if this was the mood. #valentinesday
A photo of a gloomy graveyard. Black and pink hearts are scribbled in the corners of the image. 
The two-tone pink text reads: 
thorny roses
broken hearts
diamond tears
deadly chocolates
first date: getting lost in an enchanted hedge maze 
honeymoon destination: a windswept highland moor
couple goals: buried in the same crypt
#everydayishalloween
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In honor of National Werewolf Day, I'm having a flash sale on my direct sales store for my disaster gay shifters in love novella series Hollowood Falls. 4 books in one, only $1.99 (Canadian, which is like a buck and a quarter for my US friends) books.willforrest.com/HollowoodFal... 🌈👬📚
A promo graphic advertising Will Forrest's cozy shifter novella series Hollowood Falls.
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Kit Author @kitauthor.com · 03/02/2025
When you have #ADHD being an author can be exciting. A lot of ideas, things to do, stories to write...but it can also be too much. In this week's blog I talk about #AuDHD/#ADHD and neurodivergent overwhelm for authors. #WritingCommunity #SpoonieAuthor eponaauthorsolutions.com/living-as-an...
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Living As an Author with Neurodivergent Overwhelm - Epona Author Solutions
More ideas than you could ever find time to write? Coming up with lists of things to do like updates to your author website, marketing tactics, or sites to check out to see if they can help you promote your book? The tumble of ideas can turn into a torrent if you're an author with
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I just did a head count and all of the main characters and their close friends in Author, Author are either queer or trans or trusted allies. Even Harlan’s mom is unfazed by her son being gay, which is a lot for a story set in 1957. We have always been here! #QueerPrompts
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“I pressed my eye to the knot hole and waited.” From a story Ben my MC is writing. Another ‘blue’ book for his pulp fiction press. I like starting books with a letter, a newspaper article, or other bit of writing. It's like a tight zoom that backs out to show the whole scene. #AskAnAuthor
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Greetings! I am the author, blogger & general nuisance Will Forrest and I have a new book coming out Apr 23: Author, Author, a midcentury queer romance of love, loss, and the inalienable right to read dirty books. #QueerBookSky #QueerPrompts
A promo graphic for Will Forrest's upcoming novel titled Author, Author. The cover of the book is a black and white line illustration of the main characters Ben and Harlan, standing with their arms around each other. Behind them is the New York skyline. A red and pink heart floats behind them in the sky. 
Below the book is text that reads: April 23 2025
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My mother is a writer and I remember her early attempts at fiction. This influence simmered under the surface until we got our first computer in 1990. I wrote a bunch of terrible teenage stuff, then ignored writing for the next 20 years while I tried other things. Now its all I do. #AskAnAuthor
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
*to the tune of Piano Man* it’s six AM on a Saturday I’m looking for some way to stim when the urge comes upon me to clean my drawers I’ll quit when I’m halfway in la de-da-da-da-dah de-da-da etc. #ADHD
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Challenge: not turning a basic communications task that takes ten minutes into a week of anxiety and procrastination Difficulty level: Impossible. #AuDHD
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Trish Dukes @trishdukes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Trickle Down Theory is doing some NUMBERS today - get it for free & 100s of other Romance books - one day only - romancebooklovers.com #romancebookblast
A screenshot of the Amazon sales rankings for Will Forrest's novel Trickle Down Theory. The book is number 8 on the Love Triangle Romance chart, number 20 on the Polyamorous Romance chart, and #28 in Gay Romance. a promo graphic for Romance Book Blast, a free book promotion. Pink and lavender hearts float behind text bubbles describing the event (see post for details.) 
the url is www.romancebooklovers.com
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Chel | Ink Drinker 📚 @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
It's 2025, and it's time to diversify your bookshelves. Wanna know the best way to do that? FOLLOW BIPOC CREATORS!!!!! If you don't see your fav #BIPOC #bookish creator on this list lemme know and I'll add them! #blacksky #booksky #diversereads #indigenoussky #poc #latinx go.bsky.app/4fRkV8Y
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Be the change - break up with a billionaire today!
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haunted girlfriend @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
my polycule and I noticed you from across the bar and we’ve decided to hunt you for sport
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
my TBR: *sobs* I…I can’t… Romance Book Blast: you’ll take these books like a good lil pet… Now that I have your attention: Get in on 1000+ FREE romance books of every genre in the Romance Book Blast on Jan 28. Watch this space for the link #romancebook|#romancelandia
A promo graphic for the free ebook event Romance Book Blast. Over a background of pink and purple hearts, an image of a smartphone shows the event's homepage. Grey text bubbles float beside it, reading: 
1000+ Romances - no sign ups, no commitments
12 categories, Sweet to Spicy, Contemporary to Fantasy and everything in between 
One day only - January 28th, 2025
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Just give Teen Vogue a Pulitzer already jfc Also: I hope this galvanizes a generation of young leftists to take up tax law as a career. Activism is possible at every level of society. Give them nowhere to hide.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Every now and then I think about this interaction I once had and I have to put down my phone and gaze out the window for a little.
a screenshot of an interaction on Threads. don_wyoming says "stahlp with the subsidies nonsense. Oil subsidies go to Mom & Pop oil companies so they can compete with big oil. They don't go to major oil companies."
willforrestthewriter replies "lol sure. can we get some receipts on that?"
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Make a band meatier Pearl Jambon
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 22/01/2025
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"The US media is rotten and broken. It has atrophied into a shameful clique of sycophantic stenographers who are are greedy for ratings over truth and facts. But now we will begin identifying journalism that deserves our support and curiosity. Below is a list." freewillastrology.com/beauty/archi...
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Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology - Beauty & Truth Lab - Archives - Alternative Media
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just found out that my favorite characters from one of my favorite authors are apparently terrible people, and that we’re maybe not supposed to be so rabidly in love with them, and how very dare they talk that way about my darling children? #BookSky
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I am Team Truffle which honestly is so real: I too am strange, not to everyone's taste, and enjoy nestling beneath oak trees to be eventually dug up by pigs...wait...
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J.B. Warrick @jbwarrick.com · 14/01/2025
It's cover reveal day! I really enjoyed writing this book, and I hope you enjoy reading it. You can grab it on pre-order now as well. #mmromance #vampireromance #slowburn #rivalstolovers #opera
Book cover. Title: The Baritone's Rival. Subtitle: The Vampire Impresario. Author: J.B. Warrick. Features a shirtless, tattooed man in his twenties with his arms crossed, long brown hair, and shining red eyes. He stands in front of New York City at night, underneath a huge moon.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
me: this holiday was fun but I'm kind of ready to get back to work the work: me: 😶😫 #selfpublishing
A screenshot of a computer desktop crammed with an unholy number of unsorted file thumbnails. Text on the lower right reads: we didn't come all this way just to come all this way.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Post your favorite #DoctorWho. Wrong answers only.
A still frame of the character Mentok the Mindtaker from the Adult Swim program Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Mentok, a green skinned man with pointed ears, dark hair and beard and glaring yellow eyes is levitating behind the judge's bench.
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW! You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/01/2025
Question: does anyone want to be a beta reader for my memoir? I'm afraid I can't pay anything besides my gratitude and a free copy when it's done. I'm looking for a couple of people right now.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
NO GODS NO IDOLS Stop seeking extraordinary leaders and just do the damn work.
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constellations journal @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📣Deadline Extension! constellations is seeking managing editors with expertise in Black Rhetorics! The application deadline is now February 12th, 2025. 🔗https://constell8cr.com/call-for-managing-editors/constellations-is-seeking-applications-for-managing-editors-with-expertise-in-black-rhetorics/
A colorful postcard advertising an extended deadline for a CFP. The description and deadline for the application are listed: “constellations is seeking applications for managing editors with expertise in Black rhetorics! Our goal is to welcome two new editors who research and/or teach Black, African, and/or African diasporic rhetorics to our team! Application Deadline: February 12th, 2025”
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The "second pair of eyes" doesn't have to be an editor. Yes, pro editors are amazing if you can afford it. A diligent beta reader (or two or three if you can find them) is a very good choice if funds are tight.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
To all my new followers, particularly if you're here from my scathing political invective: buckle up, it's mainly butt stuff, AuDHD, and revolution over here. I am far to the left of liberal. And I have very little patience.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Post a female character you love.
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a girl is standing next to a white wolf in a forest .
Alt: Princess Mononoke, a pale skinned girl with shoulder length brown hair, dressed in white tunic and a wolf-skin cloak, wipes blood from her mouth then spits a mouthful of it, glaring at you with disdain. A monstrous white wolf crouches behind her, growling softly.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
As promised: please enjoy my steamy Regency Romance about two men who are painfully in love with each other but too stubborn/silly/scared to admit it. Kissing! Fighting! Dyslexia! Puffy Shirts! Bonus points for a righteous jackass getting knocked tf out. #Booksky bookhip.com/GBZTMLG
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A tale of freedom, forgiveness, and saying exactly the wrong thing in bed
It was meant to be an easy job: remove a lord from the public eye until his title is usurped. Much harder to do when the lord turns out to be the same man Harry has been bedding on the sly for the pas...
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We as a civilization have got to stop looking to individual celebrities and artists as paragons of any kind of virtue. No one is coming to save us. Being good at art means nothing to me at this point. Be a decent person or get out of the way. TL:DR Burn your idols before they topple onto your head.
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
AI bros have confused process with product. They believe the point of every process is the end product and not the process itself. The point of music is not to end up with a salable commodity. The point of music is the making. We made music for 1000s of years before anyone "wrote" a "song."
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Will I break 1000 followers by the end of this bus ride? I'll share a link for a free ebook when I do. A smoochy #gay #Romance could be yours if you act now! Why pay more for 🍑 stuff when you can get it here for free? 😉
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Will Forrest, the writer @willthewriter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This is your new assignment. if you're looking for ways to pass the time on Jan 20, why not write some letters to major news outlets explaining why they're scum.
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