Clocking in at the office 💪

Yeaahhh boy! This boofhead has a 4-page spread(!) in this month's issue of DNA Magazine, Australia's iconic magazine for gay men, on newsstands now! I still don't have the abs to be one of their hot cover boy hunks but I reckon I scrubbed up ok in this photo from Mark Flower.

New novel from @v8sheppard.bsky.social has arrived. The sequel to Invisible Boys. Might have to read this next.

Leg day 💪

Yewww! Thanx everyone for all the release day good vibes yesterday! It was a great pub day for YTB. Stoked to see a full page article in The West Australian, then had a really brilliant in-studio chat with Jo Trilling on ABC Radio Perth. 🥳🥳 And YTB is now the #1 Gay Fiction bestseller on Amazon! 🤘🤘

SYDNEY! So pumped to be coming to Qtopia Sydney's Loading Dock Theatre on Sun 17 May to talk about YEAH THE BOYS. There'll be a convo, a chance for audience Q&A, and book sales and meet and greet with me. Tickets are on sale now here: tickets.qtopiasydney.com.au/Events/YEAH-...

New chat with @v8sheppard.bsky.social talking YEAH THE BOYS (out now)! youtu.be/uWxIy7kiyAU #booksky

Oh this is gonna be a good read 😏 @v8sheppard.bsky.social

Happy book release day to my friend @v8sheppard.bsky.social ! I’m so excited to start reading YEAH THE BOYS and find out where Charlie, Zeke and Hammer have ended up since IB!

You can check out my full chat with @v8sheppard.bsky.social here: youtu.be/uWxIy7kiyAU

Hot date with three young men tonight thanks to #yeahtheboys by @v8sheppard.bsky.social. Legs for attention.

🎊 TODAY'S THE DAY! 🎊 The sequel to INVISIBLE BOYS - YEAH THE BOYS - is OUT NOW in all good bookstores across Australia & New Zealand! 🤩🤩 At last, I can share where Zeke, Charlie and Hammer go next. 😄😄 Let's. Fkn. GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! YTB!🎖️🎸🏈🤙🤘💪

Monday pumpday 💪💪

So, this has made my day 😀

📣 MAJOR announcement today from my alter-ego Hudson Sharpshoot 📣

Mornin

Felt jacked might delete later 💪

Dapper cunt

Tuesday! @v8sheppard.bsky.social #booksky

Happy Flex Friday 💪

Big thanx to The Geraldton Guardian for this article in today's paper. The hometown coverage always hits different. 😄🙏 Only 4 days to go until it's out, and I believe pre-orders are beginning to ship! YTB! 😎🤙

Forced to wear a shirt at the gym cos it's cold 🥶🥲

Tough day at the office 😂😂

Next week! @v8sheppard.bsky.social #booksky

The book launch for YEAH THE BOYS is NEXT WEEK! 🤯🤯 Tickets available here (75% sold already!!): events.ticketbooth.com.au/event/meet-t...

Thick thighs get the guys 🦍💪

Always a pleasure helping my mate @v8sheppard.bsky.social shoot and photograph promotional material. This time we staged a small reading of part of his upcoming novel YEAH THE BOYS inside the iconic perthsteamworks . For those that know the Steamworks, you’ll understand exactly why 🤭

For all those asking: no I did not do the gay sauna reading nekkid. But I did take this shot in the showers.

I went to a gay male sauna today to read a scene from YEAH THE BOYS. The scene's set in a bathhouse so it was sick to visit Perth Steam Works to record it. YTB is a punk resistance to the cultural sanitisation of us homos, so this was the most dirty gay grunge collab I could think of. YTB! ♂️♂️💪💪

Locker room dad 💪

YEAH THE BOYS is my punk rock book & my only political book. It is a celebration of masculinity & brotherhood. It's about gay culture & the need for gay male-only spaces. It is about men's mental health & men supporting each other. It is about the first gay male AFL player. It's out in 9 days!

First podcast interview for Yeah the Boys done ✅️💪

I have a new blog post up today on Loose Units, answering a bunch of reader-submitted questions. Today I talk about why I'm a therapy junkie, writing tips, and the gayest thing I've ever done. Link here: holdensheppard.substack.com/p/book-tour-...

Ok I love this. Well done Perf 😂😂

5 weeks no grog where's my fkn medal 😤🏅

Happy Flex Friday 💪

YEAH THE BOYS: BOOK TOUR announcement! 🤘🤘 The Invisible Boys are back & I'm pumped to take them on the road to meet you all on a national tour across Australia in May-June! Tickets on sale now! Link below. Excited to get out there & celebrate this book & these boys with youse! Seeyas out there! 🤠🛻

WIDE LOAD 🚛💪

I wanna give a massive shoutout to Fremantle Press today as they celebrate 50 years of publishing WA books. When no other publishers wanted to take on INVISIBLE BOYS, Freo Press did. I am eternally grateful to them for giving me the Hungerford Award in 2018 & everything that came from that.

Is this shirt too tight

Wow, this humble & unbiased review of YEAH THE BOYS just appeared on Goodreads from some bloke I've never met called Mr Shmolden Shmeppard! He gave it 5 stars wowee! 😂😂 This is my way of saying YTB is now on Goodreads so pls add, rate and review as it helps us so much to get early word of mouth! 🙏🙏

Gorilla mode 🦍🦍

Home gym workout for a change 💪

Talking Peabody award nomination on two breakfast radio interviews on Triple M this morning! I did make the point it's not me personally nominated for the Peabody but INVISIBLE BOYS which had 300 cast and crew lots of them from WA. So as much as the story is mine this is a massive team effort. 🙌

Swole patrol 😎💪

Gettin that D ☀️😎💪

Chunky boy 💪

**HUGE BOOK GIVEAWAY** I'm running an Instagram book giveaway today, giving away these two prize packs of my full collection of 4 novels (the entire Sheppardverse!) with a retail value over $200. I'll sign & personalise all copies. For guidelines & entries head to my Insta for your chance to win!

Happy meathead 🥩💪