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

There's a place for all of us. MY RAINBOW TEACHER is an accessible & empowering #PB following one child's journey in learning how to dance to their unique colors, w/ support & care from their rainbow teacher. (In #editors inboxes now!) #QueerPit #OS (#agented by @bookfairyangus.bsky.social )

HOW TO COME HOME: Historical Context Edition aka, the real-life inspirations I shook up in a blender and used to write a book! #queerpit #HF #HR #A #amquerying

Here We Go Again x Kinky Boots An adult contemporary, drag, gay road trip RomCom. Follow Harri as he joins crush Jack on a chaotic trip to find the iconic 1980's drag friends of Wilma Cockburn. Will their secrets about his adopted family's past change his life forever? #Queerpit #A #CON #editors

A zombie outbreak in Oxford forces a philosophy professor, two students, and a tourist to seek shelter in a safe house. Do they: A) create an unexpected found family B) hook up C) slowly descend into madness D) all of the above #queerpit #H #HA #A

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind #QueerPit #AG #YA

It's 1996 & Betsy is a pissed off old starlet stuck inside a moldy mannequin doing time in Vintaged, an antique store in small town America. 18 yo closeted lesbian Roxy is about to find out exactly how vengeful Betsy is. And how badly she wants a new body. #QueerPit #Q #F #H #A

A young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother whilst finding love on a road trip to find members of his estranged uncle's 80's drag collective. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #QueerPit #CON #A

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR When seer Cass learns there’s no Chosen One to save the world from a Fear magic based apocalypse, he tells firefighter Esti she’s the Chosen One. If she ever learns he lied, the world will end. #queerpit #F #A #EF #UF

The Handyman Method x Scream 2 When a canceled flight strands Cody & friends in Wales, she must find a hotel w/vacancy before the storm hits. But a surprise engagement and 10 days worth of tension lead to a rising body count. Hotel Adair has been waiting. #Queerpit #A #H

A young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother whilst finding love on a road trip to find members of his estranged uncle's 80's drag collective. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #QueerPit #CON #A

You know when you're excited when you've typed The End on your manuscript and everyone says to put it aside for a month or two before querying? Those people are right. Really really right. Sorry.

(1/4) Since writing this essay, my life has changed dramatically. Reading it is like uncovering a letter in a time capsule; its message rings truer to me now more than ever. #writing #books #autistic #actuallyautistic #neurodiversity

Genuinely just happened again. This time it's 'I Think We're Alone Now' by Tiffany on the radio as I save the chapter where a bunch of drag queens are rehearsing to the same song. Weird.

Re. the Polari LGBTQ Book Prize inclusion of a transphobe on their long list: If it was a trans person who boasted of their homophobia, and used their platform to ridicule and abuse gays, I do not believe they would gain a place on that list. Boyne’s inclusion normalises transphobia. Shameful.

Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Fuck the Polari Prize, seriously. Trans people are not up for discussion. You cannot claim to be an LGBTQ+ inclusive prize and then longlist a prominent and vocal transphobe. Their statement is shameful, hurtful, and hypocritical.

I was just googling which Now album Kim Wilde's "You Keep me Hanging On" was on, and then the song came on Nation Radio at the same time. Not the first time this has happened either, which I think means this book is gonna make a billion pounds.

Whilst honouring his estranged uncle's dying wish to reunite a 1980's drag activist collective, a young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future & relationship, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him. #questpit #Con #A #OS

A trailer for EAST END BOYS & WEST END GIRLS 👑Adult Contemporary RomCom 👑Forced Proximity 👑Rivals to Lovers 👑Humour 👑Found Family 👑LGBTQ+ History 👑Complex Family Dynamics 👑Here We Go Again x Kinky Boots 👑Available to editors, on sub soon! 👑Agented #Questpit #A #OS

While honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite four iconic drag activists, a young gay man learns dark truths about his adoptive mother. With her past set to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy, his relationship, or the woman who raised him. #Questpit #OS #A

ONE DARK WINDOW x GWEN & ART ARE NOT IN LOVE x THE GILDED AGE 💥 total-opposite twins 💍 arranged marriages 👑 a curse from the gods 🌥️ grumpy x sunshine ⚔️ lovers to enemies #questpit #ya #f #rf #wip