Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

greatest thing about being an author is getting to read your most anticipated books so early. the next @freyamarske.bsky.social is sooooo extremely delicious I want to curl up inside it like a dormouse

Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead

I’m an absolute beginner at ice skating and today I gave myself actual motion sickness just from skating in circles which bodes well for future skills I think

COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September. - Dating sim vs gothic novel energy - Be & romance any gender - Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc

I read gwen and art are not in love by @lexcroucher.bsky.social yesterday and gwen and arthur’s friendship is so important to me!!! #art #illustration #artist

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Kidlit colleagues, just a reminder that JK Rowling *funded* this challenge over the definition of women at the Supreme Court. Every time you choose to work with her, platform her, take a stance that aligns with her, buy her books, nominate her for more awards, she uses that and funds hate.

The level of injustice is just so extreme They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

getting stressed about deadlines is so much funnier now that I'm writing adult fantasy with more explicit romance. staring at the word document, sweating, tearing at my hair, "so he has a boner ... WHAT NEXT????"

society (my social media timeline) is already splitting into soulless AI techbro fascists vs impassioned Neo-Luddite artists. exciting first glimpses of the precise nature of our future dystopia???

UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

I’m on a plane and the turbulence is both JUICY and BOUNCY. please distract me by telling me something nice that’s happened to you lately, thank you!!!

I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid. www.vulture.com/article/mara...

Yes

Official fan art for @lexcroucher.bsky.social ‘s wonderful ‘Gwen & Art Are Not In Love’

finally got my hands on @lexcroucher.bsky.social 's Not For The Faint of Heart and devoured it in a day, so have some art of the girls, and a bluesky exclusive sketch of mariel ✌️

WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death

well. yes. I agree it’s not the AUTHOR’s job to run around trying to get blurbs for marketing and publicity, as this is not their job or skill set. but the publisher? the people in charge of Marketing And Publicity? perhaps this might be mysteriously linked to them somehow?

reading with cricket vs reading with remy

reintroducing myself trying to find my people on here!! hello I’m lex croucher I write queer books and run around after two kittens (remy and cricket) who love to bite toes and do kick flips

drinking my morning tea out of my Irony Mug (this is old unofficial HP merch & actually a quote from one of the books) (ha ha ha)

finished writing a book today. my reward? two fillings at the dentist. going to ask him if he’ll numb other parts of me, just for fun

I think a thing that stops me reaching my full potential is that I walk around at all times feeling what I can only describe as "mildly poisoned".

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

my best guess is a vampire fell asleep on it last night

soothing myself with the thought of all the #ad posts he'll get to do in heaven :( #TheTraitors

btw if u want ur regency-romance fix but sapphic, i can't recommend @lexcroucher.bsky.social's Infamous enough i read it during months of self-loathing re: "will i ever create anything that makes me worth loving" & it hit that note exceptionally well, while suggesting that maybe i'm enough as i am

the orcas are thrifting and doing nostalgia

happy NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART stateside publication day to all those who celebrate!!! pick up a copy and let my assortment of troubled queer children whisk you away into the greenwood 💘

The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.

we struggled to sell my Regency rom com in 2019 because Regency was out … my publisher took a punt on it and bought it early 2020 to publish summer ‘21, then Bridgerton came out while we were editing it and we sold foreign rights in 13 territories and I quit my day job. lmao!

what does numbers on bluesky? on Threads it’s stuff like “my hateful ugly son shits himself every night, any advice?” but I dare to dream it’s different here

where are all my little internet friends. do I really have to catch them in a net again. perhaps if I just leave my bucket here before high tide they will fall in

whenever I have a tummy ache I want Gabriel Oak to do that thing he does to Bathsheba’s sheep to me

Today’s special guest - @lexcroucher.bsky.social. Signed copies of Gwen and Art now loitering in the table stacks at Piccadilly 💖