TJ Alexander (they/them)
@tjalexandernyc.bsky.social
Bestselling author of 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ romances. A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS out now. Rep: Larissa Melo Pienkowski @ Azantian DM's/@'s not checked regularly. Contact me via my website: https://tjalexander.com/
Happy book birthday to meeee 🎵🎶 To Our Untamed Core is OUT NOW! This book is incredibly special to me. It’s my first book with a trans protagonist, and my first book releasing with my new name. It’s terrifying and so so special. I am so grateful to finally be able to share this one with all of you💛
Thinking again about @nathanburgoine.bsky.social's careful (and very gentle given how frustrating this shit can be!) essay on "who gets to tell their own stories, who profits the most from them, and what that means for queer men in these spaces/the culture" apostrophen.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/t...
The Shoulder Check Problem
Like a lot of my blog posts here, this one was sparked at a specific time over a specific conversation, but over the years I’ve seen this particular topic come up again and again like waves on a sh…
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Last day to preorder ISN'T HE ROMANTIC?!! If you do get it from Under the Cover here in KC you get some goodies too!!
Isn't He Romantic? - PREORDER September 22, 2026
This is a preorder for the third book in the Love On The Vine series by Adib Khorram, Isn't He Romantic? Each preorder will be hand signed by the author. Swag to be announced! To deter his ex, a lov...
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his campaign is calling this political ad "satire" but it's just a bunch of out of context clips put together to make it seem like people are mad at Hochul. You can find PLENTY of real life people who are mad at Hochul. Faking that isn't satire unless what they're actually satirizing is NY politics
Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2d agoComedian Justin Tyler is no fan of the Republican running for governor against Kathy Hochul—so he was EXTREMELY surprised to find a clip of his face and voice in the middle of a Bruce Blakeman campaign ad. Read the full, very weird story in today's Morning Spew. hellgatenyc.com/bruce-blakem...
Book reviewers! This is now available to request on netgalley (and maybe the other one too? I forget what it's called) www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Love and Lake Monsters
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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TJ Alexander (they/them)@tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 3mo agoCover reveal for my next m/m contemporary romcom, LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS Featuring: 🧌 Cryptid hunters 😷 COVID conscious 🍂 Upstate vibes 🕰️ Age gap 🏳️⚧️ Older trans man Preorder, synopsis, & more at tjalexander.com#books7 Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. Art direction by James Iacobelli.
RE last reskeet, I have real doubts when people say "at least Democrats can be persuaded to be more pro trans at a later date, so vote them in now no matter how transphobic they seem" That's not what happened in the UK. Transphobia just got more acceptable
This is what has happened with Labour in the UK. Most people don't believe that Labour could be transphobic - they aren't the Tories or Reform after all - and refuse to see it, and they are the most transphobic government of my life. So much harder to fight against, so much more damage done.
samantha@commiesamantha.bsky.social · last wk.this is what we're all telling you. a democratic majority that includes talarico and others like him is more dangerous to us. because the 'reasonable' versions of anti-trans bills will get written and passed and you all will go back to brunch and not care. you don't care what happens to us.
People will cut out artificial food dyes, spend hours at the gym, drink vitamin infused water…and then go to the airport and rawdog breathing in an airborne pathogen that can disable you permanenty and is basically guaranteed to be there.
Dr. Jen Irwin@drjenirwin.bsky.social · 5d ago“Air sampling at four US airports in 2023 and 2024 detected SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in over 98% of samples and influenza A in over 17%, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/air...
I am amazed that for a few years we had the ability to instantly access information through an almost perfect search engine and the makers of that search engine decided hundreds of billions wasn’t enough profit so they destroyed it
nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · 6mo agoGoogle is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
Ah, mid-Sept. It's practically October. Which, in the US, is basically November. That means Thanksgiving, which leads quickly into December and the winter holidays, so really I wouldn't be surprised if every email to a major publishing house from now until Jan 11 gets an OOO auto response
It's Bi Week! I'm bi and so is the cis MC in CHEF'S KISS. In my experience, bi folks are the likeliest partners of trans & nb people simply bc we tend not to spiral about what our partner's gender means for our identity. it's all good! it's ignorant to say being bisexual = inherently transphobic
TJ Alexander (they/them)@tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 2y agoMy debut, CHEF'S KISS, is a f/nb opposites attract workplace romcom. A grumpy pastry chef is forced to pivot to video with her charismatic kitchen manager at a gourmet magazine. A coming-out-at-work story but also a taking-care-of-your-crush-post-top surgery fantasy Buy: tjalexander.com#books1
Hey NYC - Katherine Grant and I are hosting another romance read-in to benefit @authorsabb.bsky.social on 10/5! Come hang out, meet some of your favorite romance authors and raise money to fight book bans ❤️
Romance Read-In to Benefit Authors Against Book Bans
It's Banned Books Week - so we're calling on romance readers to support Authors Against Book Bans and fight back against censorship!
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It's Bi Week! I'm bi and so is the cis MC in CHEF'S KISS. In my experience, bi folks are the likeliest partners of trans & nb people simply bc we tend not to spiral about what our partner's gender means for our identity. it's all good! it's ignorant to say being bisexual = inherently transphobic
TJ Alexander (they/them)@tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 2y agoMy debut, CHEF'S KISS, is a f/nb opposites attract workplace romcom. A grumpy pastry chef is forced to pivot to video with her charismatic kitchen manager at a gourmet magazine. A coming-out-at-work story but also a taking-care-of-your-crush-post-top surgery fantasy Buy: tjalexander.com#books1
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!
I'll die on this hill, but it's cruel to accuse people who wear masks of having anxiety disorders. We don't do this to people who wear hard hats, condoms, medical gloves, sunglasses, life jackets, parachutes - the list is long!
if the votes of trans people are so crucial they could sway an election then a politicians job is to win those votes
one thing about ai spam author emails is that they chip away at one's belief in anything good in the world the other is that the slop will sometimes create a sentence so untrue you can't help but laugh "inclusive romance regularly goes viral on booktok" none of what you just said is real
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social is urging fellow Ds to vote FOR the corrupt crypto CLARITY Act. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that her 22 year old son received a $30 mil investment from a VC fund led by a crypto billionaire www.politico.com/live-updates...
Gillibrand privately urges Dems to advance crypto bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's posture on the legislation puts her at odds with progressives in her party.
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really looking forward to reading this as Halloween approaches
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈@haileypiperfights.bsky.social · last wk.THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT is out today! In 1994, three girls go to the movies to see an obscure film. Only one comes out. 30 years later, the survivor learns the movie isn't done with her yet. Now playing in a bookstore near you 😈📽️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827994...
Reminder: Tomorrow is the last day of the Goodreads Giveaway for YOUR LIPS ON MINE! Enter to win yourself a body swap fall!
if you're on goodreads my publisher is doing a giveaway of arcs for LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS they look like this, they're gay as hell, and they are into some weird shit www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
relieved to find Taskmaster is streaming on hulu. these youtube ads are now pretty much alllllllll genai bullshit, the meta pervert glasses, and gambling nonsense
If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.
You can see this in how they treat trans people who piss them off. All of a sudden the politeness drops and they tell you what they really think.
Anna Phylaxis@quatoria.bsky.social · last wk.I think a lot of liberals and democrats have such an alienated view of trans folks that they see us as “really” our assigned gender, and think that they’re humoring or being polite to disabled or mentally ill folks when they use our pronouns or our names. They see it as kindness, politeness.
realising i was trans was like getting sick of my laptop crashing and overheating all the time, only to finally discover that a solid 90% of my CPU was still going towards running this malware-ridden child-lock thing my parents installed when i was a kid called 'pretend to be a man.exe'
if you're on goodreads my publisher is doing a giveaway of arcs for LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS they look like this, they're gay as hell, and they are into some weird shit www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book reviewers! This is now available to request on netgalley (and maybe the other one too? I forget what it's called) www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Love and Lake Monsters
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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TJ Alexander (they/them)@tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 3mo agoCover reveal for my next m/m contemporary romcom, LOVE AND LAKE MONSTERS Featuring: 🧌 Cryptid hunters 😷 COVID conscious 🍂 Upstate vibes 🕰️ Age gap 🏳️⚧️ Older trans man Preorder, synopsis, & more at tjalexander.com#books7 Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. Art direction by James Iacobelli.
Those scam spam slop emails really start rolling in when the book release is around the corner 🫠 But silver lining, THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END UP WAY WE WANT is out in just two days! ICYMI check out the trailer Titan Books put together for it 🤩
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈@haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2w agoWe know you love trailers 🤪 The following book is rated R for strong language, violence, sexuality, and the tall man sitting four rows behind you in the auditorium and getting closer. Book trailer for THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, out September 15th (less than a week!) from Titan Books 📽️
