vibe/comp/aesthetic map for my upcoming YA thriller YOU’RE NO BETTER 🔪📸📱🏳️‍🌈 a deeply unwell kid tries to prove he’s better than his exploitative influencer mother and world-famous serial killer father. it goes badly.

Happy Bonesiversary everyone! An ENOURMOUS THANKS to my editor over at @kithbooks.bsky.social who managed to polish my old writing to a shine (I hope you aren’t sick of me yet) And to @artiodaktyl.bsky.social who took the doofy stick figure I gave him, and turned it into an incredible cover.

This is not an April Fools: Coming April 15th-- Halfway to Halloween virtual and in person at the Anderson County (SC) Library. All Ages of Horror included. Rory Power, Lisa Springer, Andrew Joseph White, and Nat Cassidy. Moderated by me. Anyone can join via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ICYMI: I have a short story in @wenyilee.bsky.social’s YA horror anthology, THE KIDS CAME BACK WRONG! It’s the last day of deer season in Whitepoint, Virginia, and Shrike + his boyfriend Possum (pictured below ✨) are about to have a very, very bloody morning. I can’t wait to share more!

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I'm editing THE KIDS CAME BACK WRONG, a YA horror anthology for fans of Weapons & Stranger Things!!!! A class goes missing on a trip to the woods. 13 of the kids return, changed in ways they can't describe. 13 kids, 13 authors, 1 interconnected story. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, Fall 2027 🌲💚

btw, the B&N preorder sale is happening. 25% off for members or something with code PREORDER25. you know the drill. my wife made this:

advance copies of my fifth (!!!) book are finally home…

my hot writing take is that playing with POV is neat and you can do what you want. present tense first! close third! first-person-direct-address with bits of omniscient third! anything is legal if you look good doing it!!

Today is World Book Day? Let's go! I had the honor of illustrating the cover and edges of the special edition of You Weren't Meant to be Human, by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social for @illumicrate.bsky.social/@evernightbooks.bsky.social! It was one of the coolest projects I've worked on last year 💗

YOU’RE NO BETTER cover reveal!! My YA thriller about an autistic trans boy struggling w/ the legacy of his serial killer father in the age of true crime… is HERE!! (Check out the link for more!) Thank you to @egallagher.bsky.social for another amazing piece 💕 bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3...

what if I said “cover reveal scheduled for next week”

YOU’RE NO BETTER - my newest book, a queer & gritty YA thriller about a boy trying to prove he’s nothing like his serial killer father - is now… ✨ Up for preorder, AND ✨ Has digital review copies available for request on Edelweiss! More info below!! 🧵👇🏻

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saw IRON LUNG. it was very sexy. to me.

found this week 🐽

I was Consciously aware that the adult lit market is Lightyears larger than the YA/teen lit market, because Obviously, but my four-month-old adult horror EASILY outpacing my one- and even two-year-old YA books really drove it home

me, stating a plain and simple truth to my wife just now: “I am incapable of having fun! I have a stick up my ass and am deeply whimsyless”

my newest novel, YOU’RE NO BETTER—a teen thriller about messy trans kids and serial killers—has an official summary! this book is a rough one, and it tackles a lot of ugliness, but I love it so much and can’t wait to share it 💕

WORMS!! Loved working on this piece today based on the book You Weren’t Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social !!! #tattoo #art

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.