Hey no big deal, absolutely no biggie, but you can see the cover of my dreams and the prologue of my debut novel, THOUGHTS BE BLOODY on the Nerdist!

In case you haven’t already, preorder our upcoming books for this summer and beyond! From vast galaxies to fire-wielding nuns to a Hamlet retelling, we have got a book for everyone and anyone! ☀️

Behold the marvelous cover for Thoughts Be Bloody by Auden Patrick 🎭📜🪶 Read an excerpt on Nerdist! Out on March 24th, 2026, preorder this dark academia novel today! Artist: Aykut Aydogdu Cover Director: Jenna Stempel-Lobel https://t.co/mXF9E30k7r

Please listen. It starts like this:

the cover for auden’s queer & trans dark academia retelling of hamlet is absolutely legendary and you 🫵 need to go look at it

This book. This gorgeous book. This stunning, haunting, queer trans Hamlet retelling, taking place at a magic school!!!

THATS MY BESTIE’S BOOK GO LOOK AT THE GORGEOUS COVER & PREORDER IT NOW 🫵‼️

Check out our exclusive cover reveal for Thoughts Be Bloody, a queer, trans Hamlet retelling from @dawbooks . You can also read an excerpt from the book here:

Y'all are not ready for the gay shakespearean timey-wimey shit that Auden has been cooking. YOU ARE NOT READY!

You are not ready for queer, trans Hamlet taking place at a magic school!!!! THOUGHTS BE BLOODY is the book of my Shakespeare-loving dreams, and I could not be more thrilled to get to work with @patrickauden to publish it!!!!!

THOUGHTS BE BLOODY is the twisty, mind-bending dark academia of your wildest dreams, and one that captures all the delicious madness and fervor of the original Hamlet. Reading this one broke my brain in the best of ways, and I'm thrilled we get to talk about it with the world! 🎉

Everybody say thanks to @smlechon for championing & believing in my manuscript-shaped son. Thank you also @navahw & the rest of the DAW team for bringing it into the world. Love as always to everybody on #teamnohinges, but the rest of my thanks I'll save for the acknowledgements

TBB is a love letter to my deeply repressed undergrad years when I read The Secret History during my Shakespeare class — plus the week I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead *and* Hamlet back to back. & I can finally share this art of my magical cohort by emily @/kasphacked

I'm going to be a published novelist! THOUGHTS BE BLOODY is a queer/trans Hamlet retelling set at a magic college, about fate, ghosts, a beautiful memory that still hurts like a bruise, & relationships that spin out of control (slated for 2026 from @dawbooks )

MAEVE AND THE OTHER MARSH coming to shelves near you SO soon!!! Kate is one of my very best friends & I have been screaming about this book for so long, it's such a delight to see everyone else start screaming about it too!!! If you're not screaming yet—what are you doing?

WE SOLD THE MARSH BOOK! Can't wait to inflict my obsession with the Gardner Heist & new england witchcraft upon future readers. Endless thanks to @benglishhh & the team at @ErewhonBooks , esp @writersyndrome and @McFlyCahill90 & ofc ALL OF YALL for being my friends ily

the way i cackled when I saw "what is art, anyway?" honestly such a maeve-coded question, the erewhon pr team is really living inside my walls at this point anyway the NEWS IS OUT we sold the book!! eee!!!

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”⚡#Frankenstein

btw we are officially ONE MONTH from publication……… pls enjoy memes and comps (both positive and spiteful)

it’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl ❤️‍🔥