My new novel HALF THE WORLD AWAY is out early next week! If you are looking for a new LGBTQ+ young adult read, see the below tweet for places to get your copy! Also available from most booksellers worldwide.

I have some more book news coming at the end of this month 👀

My new novel HALF THE WORLD AWAY is out early next week! If you are looking for a new LGBTQ+ young adult read, see the below tweet for places to get your copy! Also available from most booksellers worldwide.

He's the only thing standing between college students and certain death. Unfortunately, teen monster hunter Daniel is responsible for more civilian deaths than monster kills, and unless he can find the key to a power he doesn't believe in, his new friends will pay the price... #QuestPit #YA #Q #UF

A Certain Hunger X Diavola Critical Position's first #Agentguide 🫀Why choose love triangle 🫀Misogyny in chess 🫀Eat the rich like that one Dutch minister 🫀Too many beds and using none of them #H #R #A #W #Questpit

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR 👁️ a gay seer determined to fake it till he makes it 🚒 a butch lesbian firefighter who thinks she's the Chosen One 😱 a Fear based apocalypse set to end the world Without a real Chosen One, what could possibly go wrong? #Questpit #A #F #LGBT #ND #Q

Half the World Away - Coming this November through @srlpublishing.bsky.social . Are you a fan of #heartstopper or Simon James Green and looking for your next LGBTQ+ young adult read? Why not check it out.

Half the World Away - Coming this November through @srlpublishing.bsky.social . Are you a fan of #heartstopper or Simon James Green and looking for your next LGBTQ+ young adult read? Why not check it out.

If people can give a 3⭐ review for a thirty year old film on Letterboxd then they can give a star review for the last book they read.

Pam St Clement - End of an Earing or Paul Sinha - One Sinha Lifetime

If you have a second, please add my new novel Half the World Away to your 'want to read' list if you use Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Half the World Away - 11/11/2025 HEARTSTOPPER x BOY LIKE ME My brand new young adult novel is available to pre-order now from all your favourite places. 🛒 - www.linktree.com/jamesalyons

"Section 28 bred isolation for so many kids that is was supposedly brought in to protect." Find out more about my novel Half the World Away here: jamesalyons.substack.com/p/half-the-w...

One thing I will say: You don't have to have your characters name in the pitch. EG. When Dorothy, a 12yo young girl from Kansas, goes over the rainbow due to a tornado.... v When a young girl from Kansas ends up over the rainbow... Save yourself those 30 characters for putting stakes! #predv

If anyone wants me to help with their #DVPit pitches during #predv hit me up. DM's should be open.

Just reading an interview with a celebrity author explaining how a Big 5 publisher kept visiting their house asking them to finish writing their book so they could publish it. Might laugh because otherwise I'd cry.

"Section 28 bred isolation for so many kids that is was supposedly brought in to protect." Find out more about my novel Half the World Away here: jamesalyons.substack.com/p/half-the-w...

Things that are more expensive than the young adult book I spent two years writing: Part 1. 🥣- Half the World Away: linktr.ee/jamesalyons

My new YA, Half the World Away, is currently sat at Number 3 in the Amazon Young Adult Gay Fiction ebook charts! Don't miss out securing your copy. 👀 www.linktree.com/jamesalyons

Are there any agented and published authors on here from diverse backgrounds who might be willing to answer a few short questions in relation to querying etc for some Substack bits with me please? DM's should be open. #writingcommunity

Hey, what if we created MagazinePit?!* Sharing cos why not. I made the graphics so might as well use them. Editors let me know if you wanna see it etc. #unhingedpit #OS #LGBT (*Don't start another pitch event).

The new Agent's Guide to MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project. ───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ───── At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable. ───── ⋆⋅🩸⋅⋆ ─────

Half the World Away -11/11/2025 HEARTSTOPPER x BOY LIKE ME My brand new young adult novel is available to pre-order now from all your favourite places. 🛒 - www.linktree.com/jamesalyons

Half the World Away -11/11/2025 HEARTSTOPPER x BOY LIKE ME My brand new young adult novel is available to pre-order now from all your favourite places. 🛒 - www.linktree.com/jamesalyons

I think we're within a year of an outrage about a trans related book that will echo the language around Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin in the 80s. The knock on effect will be huge and there will be media outcry, protests outside schools & book bans led by "concerned parents".

Find out more about my new novel Half the World Away, and why I wrote it, here: open.substack.com/pub/jamesaly...

Publishing NOVEMBER- pre-order now!

My new YA novel HALF THE WORLD AWAY is out 11th November! It's an LGBTQ+ book set during Section 28. Pre-order now at linktree.com/jamesalyons Published by @srlpublishing.bsky.social

this book sounds like it's going to break my heart 💔 in the best way possible 😭

My new YA novel HALF THE WORLD AWAY is out 11th November! It's an LGBTQ+ book set during Section 28. Pre-order now at linktree.com/jamesalyons Published by @srlpublishing.bsky.social

Bots out here thinking I wrote The Wizard of Oz lol

Have done a piece about condensing your whole novel down into a pitch, using the Wizard of Oz as an example. Hope it's useful. jamesalyons.substack.com/p/my-tips-fo...

Have done a piece about condensing your whole novel down into a pitch, using the Wizard of Oz as an example. Hope it's useful. jamesalyons.substack.com/p/my-tips-fo...

An #editors guide to: EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS. My adult contemporary road-trip RomCom featuring drag queen debauchery, melancholic yearning, and dark familial secrets in all four corners. HERE WE GO AGAIN x IT'S A SIN #Editors #OnSub

Pre-order info coming soon. Sept '95. In the midst of Section 28, the BBC launch a national pen pal project for Year 9 pupils. Theo writes in. Alex replies. This is what happens next.  For fans of Heartstopper & Boy Like Me, HALF THE WORLD AWAY is a new LGBTQ+ YA novel, coming this Winter.

Pre-order info coming soon. Sept '95. In the midst of Section 28, the BBC launch a national pen pal project for Year 9 pupils. Theo writes in. Alex replies. This is what happens next.  For fans of Heartstopper & Boy Like Me, HALF THE WORLD AWAY is a new LGBTQ+ YA novel, coming this Winter.

An #editors guide to: EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS. My adult contemporary road-trip RomCom featuring drag queen debauchery, melancholic yearning, and dark familial secrets in all four corners. HERE WE GO AGAIN x IT'S A SIN #Editors #OnSub

Here's my guide to things I look out for when line editing my manuscripts, having recently edited my 2 for my agent/publisher. Mostly fine-tuning sentences and overused words/clichés. Feel free to bookmark, or DM me if any questions! #amwriting #writingcommunity #amquerying

Mark your calendars! We have a US cover reveal date for LOVE GALAXY, my debut sapphic SF romantic thriller about murder on a reality tv show in space with forbidden romance and lots of yearning! Available to add on Goodreads now, link in the comments below 👇

No offence but I think psychotherapists have an advantage

A young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother whilst finding love as he hunts members of his estranged uncle's 1980's drag troupe. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #PosterPitA #PosterPit #C #A

SHARP OBJECTS x THE SHAPE OF WATER a young artist needs the perfect portrait for art college. her muse? her mother — but not only does she disappear to the local pond, she is also a nymph and has no intention to leave. #queerpit #spf #mr #a

Looking for an adult contemporary, drag queen filled, big humour, found family, LGBTQ+ history inclusive road trip RomCom? Here We Go Again x Kinky Boots x It's a Sin 👑Forced Proximity 👑Strong Humour 👑Gay romance 👑Found Family 👑LGBTQ+ History 👑Complex Family Dynamics #QueerPit #CON #A #editors

HOW TO COME HOME: Beta Comments Edition aka, live reactions from my beta readers in their reading journey! #queerpit #amquerying #HF #HR #A

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN x Over the Garden Wall Trans boy Owen has come home from an 11-month captivity in the woods by killing the monster that held him, but when he starts changing into something horrible, he realizes whoever kills the monster must replace it. #queerpit #YA #H

EAST END BOYS & WEST END GIRLS 👑Adult Contemporary RomCom 👑Forced Proximity 👑Gay romance 👑Road Trip 👑Drag Humour 👑Found Family 👑Complex Family Dynamics 👑Here We Go Again x Kinky Boots 👑Agented If of interest to #Editors this is on sub this September! #QueerPit #CON #A

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR 👁️ a gay seer who will fake it till he makes it 🚒 a butch lesbian firefighter turned "Chosen One" 😱 a Fear based apocalypse that will end the world Without a Chosen One, what could possibly go wrong? #queerpit #A #F #EF #UF

THE UGLIEST MAN IN HOLLYWOOD is *Spoiler Alert* by Olivia Dade X *Seasons of Love* by Helena Greer X “What’s Love Got to Do With It” by Tina Turner, but later-in-life and with football. #CR #RC #A #QueerPit

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE) 💖 disaster bi MC 👽 hot alien LI 🔗 forced proximity 🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed 🕺 disco-dancing assassins 🚀 space shenanigans 👑 secret royalty? 🎉 saving the galaxy, probably #A #SF #R #QueerPit

Love, SimonXOphelia After All Nice Cypriot boys are supposed to do 2 things in life: marry Cypriot girls & make many Cypriot babies. What a good Cypriot boy, like Ares, isn’t supposed to be is a chaotic bisexual falling for the brother of his new sister-in-law. #QueerPit #YA #CR