me: my book has a trans boy in a dress on the cover because forcing trans men into feminine womanhood on pain of violence is horrifying and this is a horror novel
people in the comments: trans men who wear and like dresses are valid 😤
me, a trans man who owns several dresses:
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NYT/indie bestselling author & trans autistic monster boy • out now: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US • next: THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH (9/5) • rep • he/him
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This angry, nasty, blood-splattered story about a gay trans boy fighting American fascists and fundamentalists is out in the world today.
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US means so much to me—and I hope it means everything to the queer kids who read it.
Everyone, thank you 💕
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🪱 DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 🪱
My adult debut - about a semi-speaking autistic trans man trapped in an isolated West Virginia town while pregnant with a terrible monster-fetus - is ACTUALLY HAPPENING 😭💕
I CANT BELIEVE IM GETTING AWAY WITH THIS LMAO!!! WHAT!!!
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first vaccines make you autistic, now they make you gay and trans? damn i'm gonna have so many new friends soon
When I discovered I was trans a few years back, I found myself in tears bc I couldn’t pick up a single book about people like me or the people I love. Now, this is what I can pull off my bookshelves in just a minute.
I’m honored to be able to join them.
#TransBooks365
"weird, feral, unhinged trans kid with sharp objects and a homicidal streak" representation
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GUESS WHO GETS TO PUT BESTSELLING AUTHOR IN THEIR BIO
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✨🌙 COVER REVEAL 🌙✨
The cover of my YA gothic horror, THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH, is live—with a sneak peek of the first chapter! Remember: trans identity, autism, ghosts, and surgery.
Once again, has DELIVERED.
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pastemagazine.com/books/andrew-j
Sorry to step in like this, and congrats on the book deal!, but I pray that you consulted transgender people in the making of this novel. Dr. James Barry is widely accepted in the trans community as one of our ancestors. He expressed wishes for his sex to be concealed after death
anyway still thinking about a queer, trans, autistic horror novel hitting the NYT. wtf lmao.
apparently this is what the back of my dad’s car looks like now 😭💕
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raise your hand if you’re a author looking at this trend of “writers being forced to expose their hardships/trauma to avoid being eaten alive” and just biting your nails and staring at your work and wondering if you’re ~fucked up enough~ to be allowed to write what you love
just need to make sure y’all are aware that I’m getting paid six figures to write the worst mpreg novel
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y’all didn’t make me sign an NDA so let’s have some transparency!!
Day job: $53k/yr
YA 1: $10k advance, first royalty check will be $50k+
YA 2: $16k advance
YA 3: $16k advance
Adult book: $100k advance
Remember all book $ is effected by a 15% agent cut and then 33% for taxes
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please share how much money you make I find it so fascinating twitter.com/c0wgirlonline/…
not sure which of my trans-led, autistic-led horror novels would be for you? i now have some handy little graphics for that!
no matter which you pick, you’ll feel vaguely ill by the end, but that’s the fun part right
(made by 🥰)
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scene: me, talking to an indie bookseller to let them know about my book and discuss signings
bookseller 1: what’s the title?
me: Hell Followed with Us—
bookseller 2, from other room: ITS NOT OUT YET
bookseller 1: DUDE THIS IS THE AUTHOR
75% of being a writer is googling precise diagrams of everyday things to get the name of a specific part, like "the top part of the frame of a chain link fence" (the rail) and "the shallow rectangular divots in fancy doors" (panels, AJ. They're called panels).
the dedications of my books right next to each other 🖤
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🔥guess who has TWO MORE BOOKS coming out?🔥
THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH and COMPOUND FRACTURE, coming 2023 and 2024 from . queer, trans, autistic YA novels about identity, society, & gut-churning acts of violence
thread for more info & a selection of quality memes
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btw I wrote a book about how the patriarchy believes it is owed the bodies of white trans boys as future white mothers/wives, aka birthers of the next generation of unjust power
and how ableism ties into it bc it always does
also there’s a lot of surgery in it
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huh, wonder why Amazon would be trying to glorify the Pinkertons, a notoriously cruel and violent union-busting group that is very much still in operation today
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EXCLUSIVE: Following a highly competitive auction, @AmazonStudios has acquired a star vehicle that will have Emily Blunt playing Kate Warne, the first woman to become a detective at the Pinkerton Agency bit.ly/37D8Gpu
Let’s talk about autism as it pertains to THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH—
Because even though the word “autism” is used in the book’s description and supporting text, it never actually appears in the narrative. Our current understanding of autism is incredibly new.
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i love writing about trans ppl falling in love w/ trans ppl, but in every story there will always be smth in the back of my head that wants me to make the love interest cis for that fleeting, desperate moment of “this one doesn’t hate me, it’s not all of them, not all of them”
if you don’t have a fiancée who makes marketing graphics for you, you’re missing out, just saying
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I am utterly THRILLED to announce that I am now represented by Jennifer March Soloway () of !! I couldn’t have asked for a better advocate for all the weird, nightmarish horrors I’m about to put y’all through 😌💕
what if I promoted the HELL FOLLOWED WITH US paperback but completely incorrectly
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WRITING HORROR FOR TEENS VS ADULTS: What’s the difference? 🤔
Short answer - cynicism
Okay but seriously. I write books that are—according to readers—notoriously hard to stomach. My YA books have had their YA designation challenged, and my adult work is. Uhhh. Worse. Lol.
if anyone needs a gauge of what it’s like to be trans in the US, the pharmacist just cheerily handed me a four month supply of HRT instead of fighting me about giving me one and I nearly cried
THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH cover copy 🌙
This book is…
🏳️⚧️ T4T (trans boy/trans girl)
🕸 historical fantasy/horror
💉 extremely autistic lol
🥀 about the ways trans boys are harmed by misogyny, transphobia, and the enforcement of “womanhood”
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to all of the authors who have talked about how the second book is the hardest, i am so sorry i doubted you. i was a CLOWN. i was ARROGANT. “Surely it can’t be that much harder,” i said, like a fool
i've done it. i've made it. my crowning achievement is my dad, who has played Dungeons & Dragons for 40 years, looking through the notebook for the game i run and whispering "so there's no module? no premade story or dungeons? you just...come up with all of this?"
save an editor today: when you need a new page, i gently beseech you to use the "page break" function in your word processor instead of hitting enter a bunch of times 😵💫
okay but writing an autistic character who doesn’t mask in order to make others comfortable is the most fun I’ve had with a POV in a WHILE. writing a love interest who thinks that’s SEXY?? even better. And then they’re both trans?????? I am a literary genius
my poor proofreader: the use of “you” here implies, uh, a self-administered hysterectomy…?
me: yes! :)
The HELL FOLLOWED WITH US cover is live! My YA horror novel about a monstrous trans boy trapped in a fascist theocracy is beautiful 😭💕
Designer:
Illustrator:
Check out the post to learn more & see the covers for Peachtree Teen's inaugural line!
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We're absolutely thrilled to be revealing the covers for Peachtree Teen’s inaugural list, 'The Ghost of Rose Hill' by R. M. Romero, 'Hell Followed With Us' by @AJWhiteAuthor, and 'Boys I Know' by @hapasareasian! @peachtreeteen @PeachtreePub
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thinking about how the dedication for book 3 - my hyper-violent west virginian thriller about an autistic trans boy getting revenge after barely surviving attempted murder, releasing 2024, etc. - has not changed in the four years i've waited to write it
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only fifty-three more days until my second YA horror hits shelves!
with the way trans kids are being treated, I hope this gutchurning story about an autistic trans boy surviving conversion therapy and abuse—and chewing out an eye with his teeth—means something to someone 💕
AND WE GOT THE NYT TOO!!!!!!!!!
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GUESS WHO GETS TO PUT BESTSELLING AUTHOR IN THEIR BIO
EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK OF THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH 💀🌙
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WAIT WHAT DO YOU ✨MEAN✨ WE’RE ON THE FOURTH PRINTING ALREADY??
ITS ONLY BEEN 40 DAYS???
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⭐️ - DNF. too violent. too political. too gross. was the tooth-pulling scene really necessary?
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pitch your book as a one-star Goodreads review 
PREPARE TO DIE. HIS KINGDOM IS NEAR.
It’s finally happening: my debut HELL FOLLOWED WITH US—my festering, feral YA about a monstrous trans boy in a world torn apart by an Evangelical doomsday cult—is coming soon.
I...I’m in tears, y’all
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look I knowww it’s unrealistic for all YA couples to stay together forever, but I met my gf when I was like 13 so I think it’s only fair that every single one of my characters is the exception
DELIGHTED to discover my publisher has decided to straight-up call my next book "transgressive" in the cover copy. i've made it and i'm only going to get worse
(is it b/c of the c-section, the eyeball removal, or just the general ick this book is imbued with? hmm)
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so—the cover reveal for THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH is Friday.
my sad, snowy gothic horror about ghosts, surgery, trans identity, and autism will finally have a face this week.
I’ve had a lot of trouble with this book, but I love it, so I want to talk about it :’)
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#1 NEW RELEASE ORANGE BANNER LET'S GOOOO
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bless librarians for not batting a single eye at their patrons, because I really don’t have an excuse for emerging from the stacks with “what to expect when you’re expecting” and a book on parasites that wouldn’t make the situation immediately worse
my writing prof thirty seconds ago--
"Stories should never include three things: FLASHBACKS, DREAMS, or THERAPISTS."
....discuss
my favorite personal rule as a horror writer is simple, especially as a horror writer specializing in YA:
if the protagonist has to see it, so does the reader.
I’ve written exactly a page and a half of my adult debut and let me just say, going from YA horror to adult horror is an absolutely unhinged experience
What do you mean I can just say whatever I want??
Well, my Fox & Wit special edition of HELL FOLLOWED WITH US just arrived, and OH MY GOD 😭
(I cant find the artist info anywhere and it’s killing me!! WHO DREW THIS, I LOVE YOU)
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HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, out June 7 🔥👁️🖤
remember how disappointed you were when the beast turned back into a prince? yeah, you're not gonna have to worry about that here.
(also the beast is a gay trans boy this time? 😌)
Learn more/pre-order: andrewjosephwhite.com/hell-followed-
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THE PAPERBACKS ARE HOME!!
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WAIT ITS #AutisticPrideDay TODAY??
hi, I’m an autistic author who wrote an NYT bestselling horror novel with a badass autistic love interest, and I am, in fact, very proud of it
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703321/h
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remember, I have a book coming out every year for THREE YEARS, each with a trans and autistic protagonist 👀
2023: Victorian ghosty murder book (YA)
2024: Appalachian revenge murder book (YA)
2025: pregnancy as body horror murder book (adult!!)
😌
every time I get the “your YA should be shelved as NA/Adult” comment it’s so weird to me because like. lmao no it shouldn’t. I wrote it for kids. that was the whole point. when I write for adults YOU’LL KNOW
still waiting to hear back from two other universities, but I can now officially say...
I GOT ACCEPTED TO GRAD SCHOOL!!!!!
Not only is it Pride Month…
But HELL FOLLOWED WITH US has been out for a year!
WHAT!! HOW!!!
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🌙THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH🌙
My ARCs have come home!!
This cold, aching, claustrophobic horror novel about the intersection of trans and autistic identity—and surgery and death and ghosts and flowers—is finding its way to early readers!
💜💜💜
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proofreads are in. i’m tired. pre-order my next book, you’ll get to read about a trans boy and a trans girl who get married and nothing bad happens I swear (ignore the eyeballs and the c-section and the dead people nothing bad happens it’s FINE)
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starting to draft my third YA novel (coming 2024) about an autistic trans boy from appalachia and his pissed off coal miner ancestors and ohhh i love him i love him so much
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look, I hate using #TDOV2023 to market my work, but shit sucks and I write about disabled trans people committing extreme acts of violence so it’s only fitting
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After coming up with this idea in 2016, COMPOUND FRACTURE—my trans, autistic, Appalachian thriller about capitalism, power, family, and West Virginia’s leftist past and present—finally has a full draft ✨
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pretty sure non-marginalized writers should be banned from the horror genre until they prove they can write a compelling story without utterly fucking over vulnerable communities
ngl it’s hard to find monster romances that hit both my “cannot reasonably be mistaken for human” and “for the love of god does not act like a neurotypical” requirements, which is why I insist that the unhinged monster boyfriend in my adult book be full of living worms
okay idk if this is an autism thing but is anyone else weird about the word “please.” like. please has WEIGHT. it has a TIME and PLACE in formal, genuinely inconveniencing requests. “could you pass the salt please” sir I am not the president just tell me you want it
A neat little addition to my cover is coming soon...
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*frantically googles “how to explain daylight savings time to a screaming cat”*
one of the things that’s integral to when i’m planning a book is figuring out what it’s ABOUT. not about, but ABOUT.
like, is it about a monstrous trans boy running from a cult? yes, but it’s ABOUT american christofascism
and then, like, building the story’s world around that
is “I wrote a book about a gay trans boy and a gay autistic boy murdering the shit out of far-right evangelical terrorists, and it is very cool and morally correct of them to do so” a good marketing angle
tbh I don’t really care that 4chan is mad about my transmasc pregnancy book (cry harder) but damn, if you’re gonna post pictures of my face on your creepy forum, at least use a newer one? I look way better these days
YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN
Saga Press, 2025
An autistic trans man trades his life to a parasitic alien species in exchange for survival under late capitalism, only for the parasites—& his boyfriend—to trap him in a monstrous unwanted pregnancy.
Here’s the current opening 😇
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behold, the original bead lizard I made in, like, third grade lol
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i’ve dropped a hefty chunk of book advance money on HRT so i refuse to pass up an opportunity to show off the magic it worked on me ✨
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We need to be discussing how hot authors are
it’s come to my attention that many of you are unaware that I kept my White Girl middle name through my transition, and it is funny enough to compensate for my utterly bizarre personality
just look at it
Andrew Joseph Marie White
lmao
I have an FAQ page on my website, which is apparently something I need now!
andrewjosephwhite.com/faq
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ngl, visiting your hometown and running into one of the popular girls from high school who immediately chirps “oh you look so GOOD!” upon realizing you’ve transitioned is an unmatched feeling, I hope she’s having a great day
i love trans men in camo and heavy boots with dirty hands and work knives, with hunting rifles and pickup trucks and soft voices and country accents. i grew up loved & cared for by men like this and i love trans men who choose this masculinity for themselves. i love love love you
for all of the people asking “can I read this if I hate mpreg,” my answer is “don’t worry, the protagonist hates it too”
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kicking off disability pride month with my manuscript about an autistic guy who is extremely attractive in a brooding and unwell way, refuses to speak out of spite, and whose main character trait is being a masochist. finally, some good representation.
usually, for every book i sell, i get a little piece of decor. it’s been hard to find worm-themed stuff for my adult pregnancy horror debut, tho
anyway my fiancé put this on my car and waited for me to notice
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as an autistic hoping to make local friends after moving, I would adore a parallel play “let’s all do our own thing in the same room and hang out :)” meet up, but no, instead I have to choose between a bar or literal group therapy, and you have to understand that I’d rather die
the author’s note for my third book is literally just an apology to trans kids for the way the world is treating them
i really hope i’ll get to delete it and write a new one before it comes out. we’ll see.
okay so, millennials and those shocked by “thumbs up emoji is passive aggressive,” this is why, from a Gen Z
gen z (in general) makes high use of emojis and other tonal markers in our text. a 👍 is flat and dismissive without context
tbh one of the reasons I’m so loud about “MY CHARACTERS ARE AUTISTIC TRANS BOYS WHO DO NASTY STUFF” is that it’s a rage response to the “this little disabled girl has been tricked into being a boy by the internet and clearly can’t make her own decisions” narrative
#LGBTWIP starts tomorrow, May 1st! Queer authors of all stripes are welcome—this is our space and we’re all here for a bout of gay fun. Remember to like/RT/comment on your favorite tweets, make new friends, and spread the love! #amwriting #lgbtq
202 DAYS UNTIL THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
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Autistic trans people are wonderful and amazing and I’m so, so grateful that I get to release a book about us THIS YEAR …and I promise it’ll be just as rancid and unsettling as always 😌💜
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realizing with growing delight, that, after the events of the book, benji is fully capable of biting nick by the back of his shirt and dragging him around the way a cat picks up a kitten by the scruff. nick, who refuses to experience fun or joy, is not thrilled
i muted that tweet about my book’s cover ASAP lmao, but for those of y’all who followed me because of it:
preorder my YA novel about an autistic trans boy in 1883 London who talks to ghosts, performs DIY surgery, and survives ye olde conversion therapy
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727063/t
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i finally get to start writing about my angry appalachian kids and i have never been more excited for anything in my life
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selfie transition timeline 😌✨
the week before I came out // out, pre-T // 6 months on T // 3.5 years on T
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IM BACK ON THE INDIE LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE LAST YEAR
WHY
WHAT DID I DO
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Replying to
This is a creeping, paranoid book about dysphoria, disability, transmasculinity, and the utter destruction that comes from living your life without knowing who you are.
It is about Roe v Wade and trans reproductive rights.
It is also SICKENING, SEXY, and WILDLY UPSETTING
if u haven’t preordered THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH or the paperback of HELL, now’s a great time b/c independent bookstore day is this saturday and that RULES
also B&N is doing their 25% off preorder sale which is ALSO cool
buy my books, piss off a transphobe
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shoutout to all the autistic picky eaters getting ready to play the "what here am i willing to put in my mouth" game today
I’m just saying, so many “quiet, aloof bad boy” love interests read as “reduced-affect autistic guy with anxiety who is easily overwhelmed by people” that I’m honestly shocked I haven’t read it fifty times already, and now im disappointed that it isn’t a Thing
had my three-year HRT check in today 😌
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well well well, looks like the first HFWU book box has found it’s way home…!
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