Back to writing after the holidays (a Neolithic fantasy-horror YA & a secret short story) ft. my finally(!!) clean office… AND the new bookcase (far left) that my wife @allyscottauthor.bsky.social loaded up with the majority of the books I’ve blurbed 🥰🥰

Lotta folks talking resolutions, so a quick reminder to focus on goals you can control. Instead of making it about agents or deals, focus on things like reading more to improve your craft, finding ways to support your peers, drafting something new… You don’t need anyone else, to chase those goals.

realized that not everyone knows I keep my HRT in an ammo can gifted to me by my father, which I feel like is extremely important info for understanding who I am as a person

writing about queer, trans, and autistic boys and men is a gift 💝

Guess what - I’ve followed my wonderful agent Jennifer March Soloway, @marchsoloway.bsky.social, to Starling Literary + Media! The SLM team has been working hard on this for a while, and I’m glad to be a part of it 🥰🥰

I swear to god if you don’t download this game and play it right now. If you usually suck at horror games, there’s an “enemies are harmless” mode. Don’t look up the plot at all. The ending gave me such horrific existential dread that I got a stomachache. Get it NOW.

Poppy cards are about half claimed so reminders if we’re mutuals and you want a holiday card from the Beastie (also @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social and me) drop a comment!

realized I missed my sixth HRT anniversary in Sept because I was too busy celebrating the release of my fourth bestselling novel lol 🏳️‍🌈🤘🏳️‍⚧️

i start plotting my next adult project in the spring & I am rubbing my hands together. the feelings I have about being a developmentally disabled adult who struggles to live up to societal expectations of “adulthood” are gonna be y’all’s problem in *checks notes* several years

I have a day job!! I have one of the most boring 9-to-5s on the planet!!! I make VERY GOOD money from advances/royalties alone (hi, I’m a bestseller!), but I’m also the breadwinner and we need health insurance. No way am I abandoning a stable, quiet, low-pressure “email job” in this economy.

BOOK FIVE COPYEDITS DONE my book about an angry & unwell trans boy, his serial killer father & controlling mother, true crime, social media, and the way that kids are failed by the adults around them…. it’s COMPLETE!! ITS DONE!! I can finally play video games again 😭😭

Our Evernight October book was You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White! 📸: carsenslibrary; tabatha_reads_books; the_phantompages

The Illumicrate/Evernight editions of YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN have been out in the world for a month now, and I just cannot BELIEVE how beautiful/horrific this is. It’s always such a blast to work with the team!!

It’s that time of year again!!! If you’re mutuals with me or @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social and want a holiday card with a picture of Pop Rocks in it, let me know!!

Drew a Hound of Tindalos from a short story by Frank Belknap Long, released in a short story collection of his work in 1946. The hounds are creatures that exist outside of time and space. They can emerge in the form of smoke from any angle of a certain sharpness, like the corner of a room.

well well well - looks like YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards in Horror! If you liked this miserable & cruel little shitshow about trans men’s invisibility in discussions of pregnancy, I’d be honored if you voted 🫵✨💕

It’s two days until Halloween, Wishbone Sleepy Hollow is on the tv, pumpkins are carved, and Poppy doesn’t give a single fuck

Plan your getaway. The classic beach read is getting a Hawaiian gothic twist. Iʻm excited to share the cover for THAT WHICH FEEDS US, my YA supernatural thriller, out May 26. A huge thank you to Frances Wren, Liz Dresner, Kelly Austin, + @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social for blurbing. Pre-order 🔗 in bio!

turned in the last round of YOURE NO BETTER edits over my lunch break 🫡 (Cover hints btw… perhaps…. 🖤🔪🩷📷🤍)

a handy dandy venn diagram, perhaps. If you will.

It’s getting close to Halloween…. so there’s no better time to pick up one of my wife’s chapbooks!!! @allyscottauthor.bsky.social writes short stories about gay and trans people, magic, and otherworldly things, sometimes with a creepy little twist 👀

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It's spooky season! So I reviewed four great recent scary books: Fiend by @almakatsu.bsky.social Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social Slashed Beauties by A Rushby You Weren't Meant to be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

It’s October which means it’s been a year since I emailed @kithbooks.bsky.social and went “hey what do you think about a short story collection?” I for one think now is the PERFECT time of year to pick up YOU ARE NOT YOUR BONES if you like queer shit and hauntings that aren’t always literal :)

what my wife got at the craft fair vs what I got at the craft fair

top two things things that I, a trans horror author, have signed instead of my own books: - a box containing a vial of medical testosterone (the reader and I used the same brand) (hell yeah dude) - the literal Book of Mormon (yes, as in the LDS religious text) (pocket edition)

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

YWMTBH is an INSTANT BESTSELLER! In this day and age, a horror novel BY and ABOUT a disabled trans man - tackling pregnancy as violence, the necessity of abortion, and the right to CHOOSE - hitting a list? It feels like a miracle. Everyone, thank you so much 🪱

BEAST//WARDEN drafting begins this week 🍂🌾🪦 hope y’all are ready for a monstrously complicated Stone Age YA fantasy about disability, ableism, messy teen attempts at polyamory, and the meaning of sacrifice for the greater good.

Happy Book Birthday to NYT and USA Today bestselling author Andrew Joseph White's highly anticipated debut adult horror novel YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN! Everyone that has read this visceral entry into the body horror genre says the same thing: It's brutal, it's brilliant, and it's devastating.

YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN is out today 🪱 My horror novel about worms, cults, unwanted pregnancy, Roe V Wade, undiagnosed autism, and trans men’s invisibility in discussions about reproductive justice… I can’t believe it’s on shelves. Thank you ALL 😩💕

hey. hey. want to hear a snippet of the YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN audiobook????

turned in dev edits for YOURE NO BETTER on Friday, which means I get to start working on my Stone Age polyamorous fantasy-horror 😎

signing YWMTBH preorders today ✌️

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN Evernight/Illumicrate book details!!!! 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN got its SECOND star, this one from Booklist!! 🌟 “White’s adult debut is brutal…but encapsulates the best of the modern horror genre.” My horror novel about a trans man’s unwanted pregnancy comes out in ONE WEEK and I am not nervous at all 😩

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN is a free Advanced Listener Copy on libro for booksellers btw!!!!

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN comes out in 9 days 🪱 still can’t believe I wrote a horror novel to explore my fear of pregnancy & childbirth as a transgender man post-Roe V Wade, it sold for six figures to a huge publisher, and it’s gonna be on shelves so soon. what the fuck

AAAAAND we’re at 13 seats left now!!

we’re down to 22 spots now 🤭

YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN BOOK LAUNCH 🔥 If you’re in the Northern Virginia area, come see me + my wife talk about my adult horror debut - about Roe V Wade, transness, autism, & worms 🫵🪱 16 days until release, and there are only 27 seats left! Registration required!!

cover sketches for my 2026 book are in my inbox btw 🏳️‍⚧️📸🔪🩸🖤

This Thursday, Sarah Gailey (SPREAD ME) and Andrew Joseph White (YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN) join me on Fearmongers to discuss their profanely stunning new novels. Thursday, August 21st at 8 PM/ET. Register here: bit.ly/4mtogYX @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social

And our final entry on the LibraryReads Top 10 for September is YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White! @simonandschuster.bsky.social

24 days out from release, and my “nauseating,” “filthy” horror novel, about a transgender man forced to carry a pregnancy to term after the fall of Roe V Wade (at the behest of corpse-eating alien worms), is home 🥹

my wife is playing an otome game and sent this to the group chat, and I almost went HEY before remembering that I am, at this very moment, editing a novel by rewriting the entire 76,000-word manuscript from the ground up so it is Good Enough For Me

Has the last week been hard? Yes. Am I excited to finally be working on my 2026 release again? Absolutely. YOURE NO BETTER follows a struggling trans boy as he attempts to prove to the world - and himself - that he’s better than the serial killer who raised him. It goes badly.

YWMTBH EXCERPT 🪱 Want to read chapter 3 of my adult horror debut YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN? Want to meet Crane, the mute, reclusive, and very autistic protagonist of my heart? B&N just posted a sneak peek! 👀💕 www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/you-wer...

In two weeks, join Sarah Gailey (SPREAD ME) and Andrew Joseph White (YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN) for our freakiest Fearmongers yet. And by freakiest, I mean freaky-deaky. Thursday, August 21st at 8 PM/ET. Register here: bit.ly/4mtogYX @sarahgailey.bsky.social @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social