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Okay I promised you all I was going to be OBNOXIOUS about this but instead I got distracted by life stuff, as is my nature, so instead I am here NOW for a little in-case-you-missed-it/heads up: Fall Into You is OUT and available in ebook, audiobook and print at the link below! (If you are, very understandably, avoiding purchasing through the link below, you can also grab it in print form from bookshop.org, and in audio on hoopla and elsewhere. However, where and how it's sold is up to my publishers, and I have the executive function of your average garden snail, so there may be other spots you can find it that I am not thinking of!)

I loved writing this and I hope you love reading it. IF YOU DO, and wouldn't mind leaving me a review, it would mean the world! It's all about the reviews, or so they tell me -- I've tried introducing the concept of kudos, but so far no dice 😂 Hope you're all doing well 💜

HELLO TUMBLR 👋 i am ENORMOUSLY excited to say: i've written a book! and i'm writing two more! and they're all queer romcoms! and the first one, FALL INTO YOU, will be out in JUNE. there is a LOT of my heart in this novel, and i absolutely can't wait to share it with you 💜

if you've ever enjoyed my fanfic, particularly stories like What We Pretend We Can't See and I've Got Nothing to Do Today But Smile, then you'll love FALL INTO YOU. it's full of ROMANCE and JOKES but also REAL, MESSY PEOPLE with PROBLEMS and TRAUMA, because those are the stories i love telling! it's chock full of things i adore: set on an APPLE FARM in NORTHEAST OHIO, main characters who hate each other more or less immediately, gratuitous depictions of food, and they were ROOMMATES?, people healing wounds they didn't even know were still open, AND MORE.

i'll be sharing more about this book in the weeks to come (i promise i will try so hard not to be obnoxious about it 🫡 ), and about the next two as we get closer to publication! but until then, i just want to say: the fic stays UP and the author stays GRATEFUL, always. i am honored and humbled by your readership, and really proud of the work i've done for and with fandom, and that's not a tune you're ever going to see me change.

okay, thanks so much for reading!! hope you're all well; i'll just be here having one of the coolest and most surreal days of my life 😂👋💜

EDITED TO ADD 4/29/25: for those who have been kind enough to ask, you can PREORDER Fall Into You here in the US (or here in the UK)! Will have info to you ASAP on options for folks in other countries, this is all as new to me as it is to you, but will keep you very posted 💜

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BOOK DAY! BOOK DAY! By which I mean, FALL INTO YOU, my first M/M romance novel, is out RIGHT NOW in ebook, print and audiobook!! If you are perhaps seeking a story that is WARM and UPLIFTING and QUEER in these trying times, I'd be thrilled and honored if you gave mine a shot 💜

You can get a copy of Fall Into You (in whatever format speaks to you!) right here.

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HI AGAIN. Today is my 36th birthday, and because life is both cool and weird, it's also the birthday of the cover of Fall Into You! To say I'm obsessed with it would be an understatement -- the COLORS! the STYLE! my BOYS! -- and I hope you like it as much as I do 🍏💜🍎

Speaking of Fall Into You, did you know that it's available for preorder? And that you can click through to do that right here? And that it's a truth universally acknowledged that ordering one of their books is amongst the very best birthday gifts you can get for a writer? And hey, if you're on NetGalley and would be interested in reading/reviewing a few weeks ahead of the June 18th release, I'd be thrilled and honored for you to take a look! You can request a copy right here 💜

Grateful to be here and queer and getting older and writing about queer joy! Happy Pride and also happy my birthday (a day on which I feel all people should get to have a lovely time) to you all 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍎💜

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Hey hi hello! We are LESS THAN A MONTH from BOOK DAY, I am so excited it's hard to THINK, so here is something I wrote when I could think: the prologue of FALL INTO YOU! Excited and admittedly slightly nervous to share this with you all, but I hope you enjoy meeting Will, my beloved/beleaguered human disaster of a protagonist. 

And hey, if you DO happen to enjoy it, and also happen to be on NetGalley: I'd love for you to request a copy and leave a review! To be honest, left to my own devices I'd probably lob the book out into the world on a random Tuesday night and then hide under the nearest available pile of leaves, but as it turns out that's somehow NOT the best way forward and early reviews are important? So any are hugely appreciated 💜 

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HELLO AGAIN, here with some ANSWERS to some QUESTIONS I have gotten about Fall Into You! (If you do not have questions about Fall Into You, I am also, Ron Swanson style, available for questions about my other areas of interest: cooking, crocheting, spending too much of my day identifying birds via the Cornell bird scientists' app, things like that.)

I am in [a location outside of the US or UK], can I still buy the book?

YES! I do not have preorder links for every place yet, these things move in mysterious ways, I will add as I have them! But for now, you can also preorder in:

Canada

Australia

Brazil

France

Germany

Italy

Spain

India

I prefer a physical book; will I be able to order one?

YES! Physical books will be available for preorder as soon as the cover is done, and you better believe I'll be back to let you know 😄

I prefer an audiobook; will I be able to order one? 

YES! The audiobook is being recorded RIGHT now, a very talented voice actor named JORDY HOPE is reading it, at some point in the near-ish future I will be able to share a CLIP, I am SO EXCITED ABOUT THE AUDIOBOOK. I am myself an audiobook person (and a podfic person, shoutout to all the absolute heroes recording those) so I am THRILLED to say that we're planning on a simultaneous release here, so the audiobook should be available alongside the text version on release day 😄

Am I going to be able to order this book through other platforms?

Okay this one is HARDER TO SAY, because it's out of my hands and up to my publishers! My part of this process is largely typing words in a feverish haze and then being amazed and delighted that anyone enjoys reading them; because of this, my publishers wisely do not leave me to handle any of the business calls, as I possess no business skills. But I have been told that the best path to broader accessibility on other platforms is the book doing well on this one; my fingers are extremely crossed I'll be able to offer news here at some point! 

Is this novel secretly a thinly veiled fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off and if so, will you tell me which fandom/pairing it originated as? 

NO, it is not, so I cannot! I'm not casting aspersions or saying I'm above this, to be clear—I have read many delightful books that had their bones in fandom, and many delightful fanfics that might as well have been original novels in terms of both quality and diversion from canon, and there is at least one book concept I plan to execute at some point that was originally ideated for fandom. And ABSOLUTELY you will find, in Fall Into You and probably all my work forever, tropes and structures and stylistic choices I love from fic, because I love fic and find those tropes and structures deeply enjoyable to read. 

But this story is not and has never been fanfic, except in the sense that creativity doesn't exist in a vacuum, so all work draws from somewhere, so in the same way everything is a sandwich if you get broad enough in your definition of sandwich, everything is fanfic of something if you look at it right. The setting of Fall Into You, for example, is based on a real apple farm in Northeast Ohio that I've been visiting since I was a child; Will, our protagonist, isn't based on any specific pre-existing fictional character, but he WAS exactingly designed on the concept, 'Someone who could be well-rendered by Andrew Garfield circa roughly 2016,'; Casey, our love interest, was built to answer the question, "What if Bill Paxton's character in classic 1996 movie Twister* was queerer and hotter and instead of chasing tornados, he had only developed the similarly self-destructive habit of attempting to fix things (places, relationships, people) which have been badly broken?" This is a question concerned parties (me) have been asking SINCE roughly 1996, and data suggests that those parties (again, me) are pleased to have finally drawn such conclusive results. 

Didn't you write another book that one time? 

Yeah, you're not pulling that from nowhere, that novel is out there! But it's out of print, and was published under another name, with a photo of what I used to look like, in the uncomfortable years RIGHT before I finally let myself acknowledge I was trans and began pursuing transition. These were my egg cracking years. All trans people are different people, and there are many there who feel differently about this sort of thing than I do personally! For some folks, the cracking of the egg is swift and relatively clean, and/or they are able to look back on that period, and the previous iteration of themselves, with the fondness of a seasoned artist looking back on their first finger paintings. Those people are so valid and I am genuinely quite happy for them.

My own crackening, however, was more of a, "What's this mess on the floor—ew, has someone dropped an egg? Is that even an egg? God I better make sure no one sees this until I know what happened here, surely I'll be in some sort of trouble otherwise, how do you know what an egg looks like after it's been smashed—wait, where's my egg? Oh my GOD, is that MY EGG?? Oh god, oh fuck, oh hell, oh no—" sort of a situation for a hottttt minute there. I'm not ashamed of who I was or what I wrote back then, I haven't scrubbed traces of my old name or face off the internet, I don't care what people know about the years before I was living as myself. But they were messy years, especially towards the end, and I'm not hugely interested in discussing them. Wading around in that period of my life feels, to me (not speaking for all trans people! just for me!) like having to rehash my most embarrassing teenage moments in front of a live studio audience. So you won't see me pointing people towards it, because to do that would suggest I was interested in having that conversation, which I'm just not. No hard feelings, no need to scrub it from your memories, no disavowals; just a case where the author of that book is metaphorically dead in more than just the usual way. 

Will there be advance reader copies?

YES! Soon! If you're on NetGalley and would like to be sent one, please let me know 💜

Okay, HOPE THAT CLEARS THINGS UP, wishing you all LESS INTERESTING TIMES 💜

*If you think you want to talk to me about 2024's Twisters, a film that did nothing for deeply (some might say 'unsettlingly') devoted fans of the original Twister—I promise, I swear to you, no you don't lmao. 

HELLO TUMBLR 👋 i am ENORMOUSLY excited to say: i've written a book! and i'm writing two more! and they're all queer romcoms! and the first one, FALL INTO YOU, will be out in JUNE. there is a LOT of my heart in this novel, and i absolutely can't wait to share it with you 💜

if you've ever enjoyed my fanfic, particularly stories like What We Pretend We Can't See and I've Got Nothing to Do Today But Smile, then you'll love FALL INTO YOU. it's full of ROMANCE and JOKES but also REAL, MESSY PEOPLE with PROBLEMS and TRAUMA, because those are the stories i love telling! it's chock full of things i adore: set on an APPLE FARM in NORTHEAST OHIO, main characters who hate each other more or less immediately, gratuitous depictions of food, and they were ROOMMATES?, people healing wounds they didn't even know were still open, AND MORE.

i'll be sharing more about this book in the weeks to come (i promise i will try so hard not to be obnoxious about it 🫡 ), and about the next two as we get closer to publication! but until then, i just want to say: the fic stays UP and the author stays GRATEFUL, always. i am honored and humbled by your readership, and really proud of the work i've done for and with fandom, and that's not a tune you're ever going to see me change.

okay, thanks so much for reading!! hope you're all well; i'll just be here having one of the coolest and most surreal days of my life 😂👋💜

EDITED TO ADD 4/29/25: for those who have been kind enough to ask, you can PREORDER Fall Into You here in the US (or here in the UK)! Will have info to you ASAP on options for folks in other countries, this is all as new to me as it is to you, but will keep you very posted 💜

[gyzym]

HELLO TUMBLR 👋 i am ENORMOUSLY excited to say: i've written a book! and i'm writing two more! and they're all queer romcoms! and the first one, FALL INTO YOU, will be out in JUNE. there is a LOT of my heart in this novel, and i absolutely can't wait to share it with you 💜

if you've ever enjoyed my fanfic, particularly stories like What We Pretend We Can't See and I've Got Nothing to Do Today But Smile, then you'll love FALL INTO YOU. it's full of ROMANCE and JOKES but also REAL, MESSY PEOPLE with PROBLEMS and TRAUMA, because those are the stories i love telling! it's chock full of things i adore: set on an APPLE FARM in NORTHEAST OHIO, main characters who hate each other more or less immediately, gratuitous depictions of food, and they were ROOMMATES?, people healing wounds they didn't even know were still open, AND MORE.

i'll be sharing more about this book in the weeks to come (i promise i will try so hard not to be obnoxious about it 🫡 ), and about the next two as we get closer to publication! but until then, i just want to say: the fic stays UP and the author stays GRATEFUL, always. i am honored and humbled by your readership, and really proud of the work i've done for and with fandom, and that's not a tune you're ever going to see me change.

okay, thanks so much for reading!! hope you're all well; i'll just be here having one of the coolest and most surreal days of my life 😂👋💜

EDITED TO ADD 4/29/25: for those who have been kind enough to ask, you can PREORDER Fall Into You here in the US (or here in the UK)! Will have info to you ASAP on options for folks in other countries, this is all as new to me as it is to you, but will keep you very posted 💜

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Hello again!! I am THRILLED to say that Fall Into You is now available for preorder (US/UK)!!

Like... very, very freshly available for preorder. Like, soooo freshly available for preorder that not all of it is actually ready yet. The STORY is ready, naturally, but (and this may shock you) the cover is NOT going to be simple text on a white background! A very talented artist is in fact working hard on it as I type this, and I can't wait to show it to you when it's done 💜

Some things you can expect to see from me in the next few weeks in addition to that COVER REVEAL: a post about PROCESS and HOW THIS HAPPENED (spoilers: the answer is 'with a lot of help from very talented people,' including an incredibly kind developmental editor who gave me some WILDLY valuable insight I'd love to share with all of you; also, I HIGHLY recommend being married to a gifted editor if you can manage it tbqh); a few EXCERPTS from Fall Into You, so you can get a sense of Will and Casey, my best/worst boys; proooobably some other stuff too. But for now, here's a little summary of the book to get things rolling:

Nearly twenty years ago, Will Robertson ran out on his destiny, leaving his family farm and everything he was supposed to become behind. So when he's forced back to small-town Glenriver, Ohio and finds the farm's irritatingly handsome manager Casey Reeves living more happily in his childhood home than he ever did, it's only natural that they hate each other immediately.

Will's plan is simple: sell his late father's apple farm and get back to his carefully constructed life in Chicago. But when a collapsed bridge strands him in Glenriver with Casey, "simple" goes right out the window – along with Will's determination to keep his distance from both his past and the man right in front of him.

Between corporate vultures circling, long-buried family secrets coming to light, and the undeniable spark growing between them, Will and Casey will have to decide if some things really are worth fighting for… and if two people who seem totally wrong for each other might actually be exactly right.

You can PREORDER Fall Into You here in the US (or here in the UK)! I promise that if you do, you won't have to wait too long to read -- the book is slated be out June 18th 😄 It turns out preorders are WILDLY important in terms of how well a book does and how many people end up reading it, so any at all are so appreciated 💜

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HELLO TUMBLR 👋 i am ENORMOUSLY excited to say: i've written a book! and i'm writing two more! and they're all queer romcoms! and the first one, FALL INTO YOU, will be out in JUNE. there is a LOT of my heart in this novel, and i absolutely can't wait to share it with you 💜

if you've ever enjoyed my fanfic, particularly stories like What We Pretend We Can't See and I've Got Nothing to Do Today But Smile, then you'll love FALL INTO YOU. it's full of ROMANCE and JOKES but also REAL, MESSY PEOPLE with PROBLEMS and TRAUMA, because those are the stories i love telling! it's chock full of things i adore: set on an APPLE FARM in NORTHEAST OHIO, main characters who hate each other more or less immediately, gratuitous depictions of food, and they were ROOMMATES?, people healing wounds they didn't even know were still open, AND MORE.

i'll be sharing more about this book in the weeks to come (i promise i will try so hard not to be obnoxious about it 🫡 ), and about the next two as we get closer to publication! but until then, i just want to say: the fic stays UP and the author stays GRATEFUL, always. i am honored and humbled by your readership, and really proud of the work i've done for and with fandom, and that's not a tune you're ever going to see me change.

okay, thanks so much for reading!! hope you're all well; i'll just be here having one of the coolest and most surreal days of my life 😂👋💜

EDITED TO ADD 4/29/25: for those who have been kind enough to ask, you can PREORDER Fall Into You here in the US (or here in the UK)! Will have info to you ASAP on options for folks in other countries, this is all as new to me as it is to you, but will keep you very posted 💜

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The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'

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taped to the crastle doors

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there’s a bit in pratchett’s going postal where someone accuses the protagonist of indirectly causing 2.338 statistical deaths. recently it’s made me wonder, did pterry ever think about the lives he saved, himself? the people pulled out of the dark by his writing, in the same kind of fractions and possibilities? the people who survived by kindness that was only offered because he made each of us a little bit better?

he saved a piece of my life. without discworld, i would have been a little less likely to have made it this far. we talk about how he’s not really dead while his name’s still spoken, and a lot of the time we reference that same book when we do. but he’s alive in so much more than that. there’s a bit of his voice in every breath i take, because i don’t know for certain i’d be taking it if not for him.

and i think… don’t we all have that power? maybe the world would be a better place if we all understood that one well-placed kindness is all it takes to save a piece of a life.

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“To Make a Long Story Short”

Stephen Andrade’s wonderful pulp-style tribute to Clue (1985)

Prints and original artwork available at nineteeneightyeight.com or through @galleries1988 on Instagram :)

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attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you

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that thing where there’s absolutely no way for you to be trans and talk about That Author and the unrelenting avalanche of horrors in a normal way, so you spend two years writing this weird piece called “POV: you are two raccoons in a trench coat, both of whom are trans” instead 🫠

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