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

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AJW BOOKS OVERVIEW ✨ From 2022 to 2027 and beyond, I’ve been busy… All books (and short stories) feature QUEER, TRANS BOYS & MEN, nearly all of them are AUTISTIC, and every single one is a stubborn bastard with a chip on his shoulder, whatever form that takes 🙏

The Lit for Queer Liberation auction—supporting an org that helps queer & trans people in TX and beyond—runs from TODAY (July 24) to July 31… and I have a package up for grabs! If you’re in the US & want a signed bundle of all my YA books, plus some extras, give this a look!

The amazing @aceofjests.bsky.social drew a scene from The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social for our charity zine all about trans and enby books Characters ✨🏳️‍⚧️ . On sale this Saturday 🌈📚 . #fanzine #Queerzine #transright #enby #Queerbooks

today is my first real sit-down editing day for book #5, and so far it’s consisted of highlighting a 12-page editorial document and frustratedly googling FERPA guidelines

50 days now btw 🪱

YOURE NO BETTER edit letter is in my inbox wheezing, crying, shaking, etc

Let's talk about books baybeeeeeee!! Here are the titles I think you should check out for the rest of the year, including hot lady knights, tons of science-fantasy, bad bitches, epic non-eurocentric adventures, hot love triangles, and spooky houses reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...

★"...a brilliant, page-turning piece of trans splatterpunk body horror and an earnest, heart-rending tragedy. White should win a whole new set of fans with this." I was always a fan of @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social's writing, but the world stopped when I read this one. It's everything.

holy shit worm book got a star from PW “A book about evil pro-natalist worms could easily feel silly, but… The result is both a brilliant, page-turning piece of trans splatterpunk body horror and an earnest, heart-rending tragedy.” ⭐️🙏💕🪱

SNEAK PEEK: The amazing @muddycrows.bsky.social drew a scene from The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social ✨🏳️‍⚧️ The digital Zine will be 3 dollars minimum and all profits will go to @southernequality.bsky.social ⭐ . . #thespritbaresitsteeth #Queerart #Queerbooks #transbooks

we’ve officially started talking about the cover of my 2026 YA thriller YOURE NO BETTER btw

the duality of man (aka my September releases) is truly remarkable

With my 2027 YA novel BEAST//WARDEN now officially on the workbench, I thought it might be good to start immersing myself in the ✨vibes✨

SUCCESS

the most nervous animal in the world (me) goes car shopping today