Mac Crane (they/them)
@mcrane12.bsky.social
parent. jock to writer pipeline. author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, A SHARP ENDLESS NEED (May, 2025), PERVERTS (2026)
would any writers be interested in a potential ongoing novel generator/workshop, led by me, for queer & trans writers only? possibly subscription-based model w/ access to a discord community I am on, craft tips/chats etc? & for something that is not an exorbitant amount of $ but actually reasonable?
VQR should be deeeeeply humiliated for publishing this *checks notes* interview with ChatGPT 😐😐😐😐😐 www.vqronline.org/fall-2025/in...
A Specter of Both Directions
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Wnba fans + queer book fans! you don’t wanna miss my virtual event with Phoenix Mercury sharpshooter Sami Whitcomb today (Feb 22, 10 am PT/ 1 pm ET) to celebrate the paperback of my novel A SHARP ENDLESS NEED—register below, come hang with us! www.epiloguebook.com/product/epil...
Epilogue Presents: Mac Crane and Sami Whitcomb | Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews
Join Mac Crane and Sami Whitcomb on February 22nd @ 1PM EST for a discussion on Mac's novel, A Sharp Endless need!! This even will be hosted virtually and requires that you enter your email to sig...
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Heated Rivalry fans, wnba fans, queer bookish people, & sluts! the third installment of my rivals to lovers queer college basketball story is officially live 😈 and if you don’t know what I’m talking about then I guess you have some catching up to do open.substack.com/pub/maccrane...
Off-Limits: Part Three
Jude and Gia are now on texting terms (devil face)
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I’m #CurrentlyReading A Sharp Endless Need by Mac (Marisa) Crane. @mcrane12.bsky.social #books 📚
if you live in California & have a soul, sign this petition I made to oppose Rady Children’s Hospital’s decision to end gender affirming care for trans youth www.change.org/oppose-rady-...
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Californians Oppose Rady Children's Hospital's Decision to End Gender-Affirming Care
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Surprise! I have the first installment of a fun little queer college basketball smut story on my substack today 🔥🔥🔥👀👀👀 open.substack.com/pub/maccrane...
Off-Limits: Part 1
my offering to the nonbinary + lesbian Heated Rivalry gods
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TikTok’s autogenerated captions changed my novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself to I Keep My Ex’s Skeletons to Myself & I’m going to need someone to write that queer horror novel asap
I love children because these two year olds at the park are having a joyous dance party to atrocious hold music I have on speaker
HELLO! If you want a signed copy of my forthcoming short story collection PERVERTS, preorder it here: thebookcatapult.com/book/9780593...
Perverts: Stories
A full-frontal confrontation of the ways we perform desire and shame—from the downright bizarre to the frighteningly relatable—by the award-winning author of A Sharp Endless NeedAn employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriend’s parents for the first time. A self-destructive client engages in an affair with their therapist, careening their relationship toward its inevitable breaking point. At a theme park where men pay to ogle women dressed as sirens, a mild-mannered boat attendant gets engaged to the star performer. And in the title story, a pregnant internet sex worker blackmails her clients into attending a disastrous party. Nothing is off limits for Mac Crane as they rework classic stories of rejection, isolation, and connection to suggest that the so-called pervert, by existing in the margins of society, may be the one who sees the world most clearly. Crane brings their keen eye for the unsavory to seventeen transgressive stories that are as tantalizing and addictive as the characters’ experiences. A provocative and uproarious collection about pleasure, performance, and pain, Perverts is an exaltation of the awesome depravity of queer modernity.
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A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane. Picked this up at an author event for @mcrane12.bsky.social in May and am finally getting around to reading it. Yeah this is the real shit. A rare coalescence of sport and literary fiction layered with the palpable tensions of queer adolescent love. #BookSky
I am so excited about this month’s book club: we are reading A SHARP ENDLESS NEED by @mcrane12.bsky.social & Mac will be joining the discussion! If you loved Heated Rivalry, this sapphic basketball novel (with v 🌶️ sex scenes) should be your next read. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/ooyl-book-...
OOYL Book Club: January Selection
'A Sharp Endless Need' by Mac Crane
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last chance to sign up for my 4 week asynchronous online sex scene writing class! it starts Sunday Jan 4, don’t miss out! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration for 4-Week Online Class on Writing Sex Scenes
What a Sex Scene Can Do Are sex scenes really so hard to write, or are we thinking about them the wrong way? What can a sex scene do? How can it achieve psychological complexity on the page? How can ...
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hey hey I’m back teaching an entirely virtual asynchronous (no zoom meetings) class about writing sex scenes (and everything they can do!) read more and sign up below, starting Jan 4. new year new sexy words docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration for 4-Week Online Class on Writing Sex Scenes
What a Sex Scene Can Do Are sex scenes really so hard to write, or are we thinking about them the wrong way? What can a sex scene do? How can it achieve psychological complexity on the page? How can ...
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absolutely thrilled to see A Sharp Endless Need on @them list of best LGBTQ books of 2025 www.them.us/story/best-l...
The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025
From horror to heartfelt romance (and sometimes both at once), here are some of our favorite reads of this year.
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Dorian Gray’s portrait but it’s a book’s star rating slowly going down with each immoral decision the protagonist makes
Hey friends! I’m teaching a brand new Tin House craft class on defamiliarization, associative leaps, and injecting surprise into your prose. I’m soooo excited to teach it and talk shop. Come join me! tinhouse.com/product/fall...
Fall Craft Intensive: Mac Crane - Tin House
In this class, we will discuss the craft of writing personal essays that relate to identity and that speak to both the specific and the universal, engage in a close reading of published pieces on this...
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if my Spotify daylist (correctly) calls me fragile ONE MORE TIME 👊🏼
I’ve been unemployed for 7 months & am unable to find work—please hire me to edit your work, provide a MS consult, be your book coach/dom 🙏🏼 www.marisacrane.org/manuscript-c...
Manuscript Consultations — Mac (Marisa) Crane
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Powerful essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social in this collection. Provided me with a perspective that I’ll not ever fully understand. Thank you for sharing your words & experience with us, Mac.
nice to see my first book, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, on this list about the grief www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/bo...
10 Books That Know Grief More Intimately Than Any Condolence Ever Could
In the quiet between heartbreak and hope lies a shelf of stories that understand sorrow better than any spoken condolence ever could., Books, Times Now
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I have a new essay out in The Offing today! It’s about playing college basketball on a torn ACL, the fucked coach-player power dynamics, inherent worth & value, our cultural attitudes towards sacrifice in order to WIN THE BIG GAME, & more. give it a read ❤️🏀 theoffingmag.com/essay/sideli...
Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing
Essay - The Offing Magazine
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I got to edit another essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social and now you all get to read it in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. If you've followed the impact of ACLs on WoSo in recent years, it's a must read.
Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing
Essay - The Offing Magazine
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bring back the serialized novel, we could spend all week discussing each chapter online like we do tv shows
nice to see my novel I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF on this list of dystopian books on Scary Mommy (though wish the list were not necessary sigh) www.scarymommy.com/lifestyle/dy...
14 Dystopian Books For Those Of Us Yearning To See A Corrupt Government Crumble
If you just want to watch a horrible government crumble, then here are some excellent dystopian books for you to choose from.
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reframing all the pics of boys on my wall growing up as my very first Pinterest board of gender inspo
hiiii the ebook version of A Sharp Endless Need is discounted to just $1.99 from now until 10/5!!!! get it while it’s hot 🏀🔥 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762682...
A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane: 9780593733646 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vibrant and intimate novel about growing up, first love, and all the joy and heartbreak of competitive high school basketball, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of I Keep My Exoskeletons...
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what it gonna take for my novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself—a very clear abolitionist text—to show up when I google literary fiction or speculative fiction about incarceration, prisons, critiquing the prison industrial complex, etc
my kid woke me up at 3:30 am to tell me he had a bad dream (he was on a mountaintop with his books & one fell down & he screamed)