These magnificent authors — Abdi Nazemian, Rex Ogle, @aaronhaceves.bsky.social, and C.B. Lee — shared their insights and experiences on a panel about #BannedBooks. Thanks @penamerica.bsky.social for organizing and @vromansbookstore.bsky.social for hosting.

LA peeps! Signed copies at Vroman’s (in Pasadena)!

Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4

Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

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Our rapist president said he’d be ok with my hometown being bombed. We all know why. While we wait for him to [redacted] you might wanna check out my love letter to (East) LA that features everything he and all his followers hate

I used to have a follower on Twitter who was a big fan of This Is Why They Hate Us until I bashed Israel which always surprised me because it’s unambiguously pro-Palestine, and before he blocked me, he said, “And to think I was going to teach your book in my class of 300 undergrads.” And I wish

Sometimes you gotta write for yourself

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last wk.

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

I got to meet both @aaronhaceves.bsky.social and @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social at the LA Libros Festival at the LAPL and get them to sign their respective books.

Today I am at my most powerful because it’s Bi Visibility Day and Latine Heritage Month. Please consider picking up my novel This Is Why They Hate Us which is about a bi Latino teen trying to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else 🩷💜💙

Sometimes I need to take a break from pitching my book, so I let other people do it. Here’s an extremely accurate and succinct summary of This Is Why They Hate Us from a grown man who tried to get it banned from his local library

I made tostones today and used a tequila bottle to smash em, happy Latine Heritage Month!

Sometimes I need to take a break from pitching my book This Is Why They Hate Us, so I let other people do it (positive edition). Here’s an endorsement from the one and only Adam Silvera:

Sometimes I need to take a break from pitching my book This Is Why They Hate Us, so I let other people do it. Here’s an endorsement from a hater that I would love to quote on all future printings:

Everyone got a free book 😭 I’ve never seen this many copies of This Is Why They Hate Us in one place 😭

Aaron H. Aceves@aaronhaceves.bsky.social · 3w ago

Doing an author talk for 600 high school students today pray for me

Doing an author talk for 600 high school students today pray for me

It's Bisexual Awareness Week! Be aware: I’m a bi Latino author who wrote a novel about a bi Latino teen growing up in East LA who tries to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else. It’s called This Is Why They Hate Us, and I hope you check it out!

Happy Latine Heritage Month! Reminder: I wrote a novel about a bi Latino teen growing up in East LA who tries to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else. It’s called This Is Why They Hate Us, and I hope you check it out!

The simple fact is if I were in a fantasy world and in possession of an object that granted me unparalleled authority I would simply wield it responsibly and not let myself be corrupted by absolute power

I looked up the most popular highlights for This Is Why They Hate Us on Kindle and I was surprised by some of these!

I just donated to help SPIDER-MAN, who took on nazi scumbags trying to invade Minneapolis again. Arrested by our local cops (boooo) who were diligently defending their racist turd pals. Let’s help good ol’ Webhead with his defense! (PS I can vouch for the GoFundMe creator) gofund.me/6f36a1ac1

Donate to Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense, organized by Ash Chudgar

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Four years ago today, I became a published author. This Is Why They Hate Us is my love letter to raunchy teen comedies, to East LA, to my fellow queer Latinos, to Palestinian resistance, to bad dick jokes, and continuing to exist despite The Horrors

My barber always does the most with my beard but I always like the cut

Bed head is working for me

13K on IG! So glad they decided to rip off TikTok

Lmaooooo

SoCal readers! Come join me at the Monrovia Pride Festival! Should be a very gay time!

SoCal readers! Come join me at the Monrovia Pride Festival! Should be a very gay time!

Gay at the club: Hey, you want a bump? Me: A pride month sales bump for my book? Hell yeah!

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