Yesterday was the cover reveal for my adult debut w/ @SagaPressBooks!. YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN follows a mute, autistic trans man forced into an unwanted pregnancy, a violent group of desperate outcasts, and the hive of man-eating alien bugs that control their lives.

you can get your copy here 🪱.

24 days out from release, and my “nauseating,” “filthy” horror novel, about a transgender man forced to carry a pregnancy to term after the fall of Roe V Wade (at the behest of corpse-eating alien worms), is home 🥹

YES this is the only way I am capable of editing a manuscript, YES it is exactly as time consuming and difficult as it sounds, NO I will not change my autistic little ways you can’t make me.

my wife is playing an otome game and sent this to the group chat, and I almost went HEY before remembering that I am, at this very moment, editing a novel by rewriting the entire 76,000-word manuscript from the ground up so it is Good Enough For Me

Has the last week been hard? Yes. Am I excited to finally be working on my 2026 release again? Absolutely. YOURE NO BETTER follows a struggling trans boy as he attempts to prove to the world - and himself - that he’s better than the serial killer who raised him. It goes badly.

RT @AJWhiteAuthor: YWMTBH EXCERPT 🪱. Want to read chapter 3 of my adult horror debut YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN? Want to meet Crane, the….

A quick heads-up that self-harm plays a really big part in this book’s themes/motifs/imagery, and this excerpt is pretty heavy on self-immolation talk. Take care 🫡.

YWMTBH EXCERPT 🪱. Want to read chapter 3 of my adult horror debut YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN? Want to meet Crane, the mute, reclusive, and very autistic protagonist of my heart?. B&N just posted a sneak peek! 👀💕.

RT @Waterstones: Humans must pay a dreadful price to satiate the flesh eating worms and flies that overrun Appalachia in YOU WEREN'T MEANT….

RT @claymcleod: In two weeks, join Sarah Gailey (SPREAD ME) and Andrew Joseph White (YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN) for our freakiest Fearm….

RT @AllyScottAuthor: Our poor sad lamp is home and recovering

RT @AllyScottAuthor: He likes working from home because he can watch the trains

RT @Daphne_Press: 📣 Now on NetGalley!⁠.⁠⁠.From award-winning author Andrew Joseph White, this grisly debut adult novel probes identity, sur….

$20 from one person clearly doesn’t fix anything - it doesn’t make up for not being given a choice whether to feed my career to the zombie regurgitation machine - but it’s made people in my life stop and think in a way that a general “models steal from writers and artists” hasn’t.

you can list wide-reaching & genuine reasons AI models suck all day, but giving a selfish reason you dislike it often works better in casual IRL chats. At least one AI model was trained on my three novels without permission or compensation. Wanna use AI? Give me twenty bucks 🫵.

RT @PublishersWkly: ★ Andrew Joseph White’s staggering adult debut is made all the more terrifying by how deeply it resonates with the very….

RT @lagunabayfables: “what’s the point of dark/depressing/disgusting media if it makes people uncomfortable?” . the discomfort is the point….

27 💕

AJW BOOKS OVERVIEW ✨. From 2022 to 2027 and beyond, I’ve been busy…. All books (and short stories) feature QUEER, TRANS BOYS & MEN, nearly all of them are AUTISTIC, and every single one is a stubborn bastard with a chip on his shoulder, whatever form that takes 🙏

RT @AJWhiteAuthor: finally finished cleaning up a few chapters of this that were giving me trouble, so here is a collage of AO3 tags releva….