Lex Croucher
@lexcroucher.bsky.social
wordsman & enthusiast. NYT, Indie & USA Today bestselling author of GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE
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Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
greatest thing about being an author is getting to read your most anticipated books so early. the next @freyamarske.bsky.social is sooooo extremely delicious I want to curl up inside it like a dormouse
August 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
greatest thing about being an author is getting to read your most anticipated books so early. the next @freyamarske.bsky.social is sooooo extremely delicious I want to curl up inside it like a dormouse
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Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead
February 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead
I’m an absolute beginner at ice skating and today I gave myself actual motion sickness just from skating in circles which bodes well for future skills I think
July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I’m an absolute beginner at ice skating and today I gave myself actual motion sickness just from skating in circles which bodes well for future skills I think
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COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September.
- Dating sim vs gothic novel energy
- Be & romance any gender
- Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs
Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc
- Dating sim vs gothic novel energy
- Be & romance any gender
- Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs
Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc
June 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September.
- Dating sim vs gothic novel energy
- Be & romance any gender
- Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs
Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc
- Dating sim vs gothic novel energy
- Be & romance any gender
- Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs
Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc
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I read gwen and art are not in love by @lexcroucher.bsky.social yesterday and gwen and arthur’s friendship is so important to me!!!
#art #illustration #artist
#art #illustration #artist
May 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I read gwen and art are not in love by @lexcroucher.bsky.social yesterday and gwen and arthur’s friendship is so important to me!!!
#art #illustration #artist
#art #illustration #artist
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Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
April 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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Kidlit colleagues, just a reminder that JK Rowling *funded* this challenge over the definition of women at the Supreme Court. Every time you choose to work with her, platform her, take a stance that aligns with her, buy her books, nominate her for more awards, she uses that and funds hate.
April 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Kidlit colleagues, just a reminder that JK Rowling *funded* this challenge over the definition of women at the Supreme Court. Every time you choose to work with her, platform her, take a stance that aligns with her, buy her books, nominate her for more awards, she uses that and funds hate.
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The level of injustice is just so extreme
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
April 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The level of injustice is just so extreme
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
They had a hearing about what rights, what freedoms, what future trans people have... without a single trans person being involved, yet multiple with hate groups
They decided we don't deserve equality. Then said "no one won"
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
getting stressed about deadlines is so much funnier now that I'm writing adult fantasy with more explicit romance. staring at the word document, sweating, tearing at my hair, "so he has a boner ... WHAT NEXT????"
April 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
getting stressed about deadlines is so much funnier now that I'm writing adult fantasy with more explicit romance. staring at the word document, sweating, tearing at my hair, "so he has a boner ... WHAT NEXT????"
society (my social media timeline) is already splitting into soulless AI techbro fascists vs impassioned Neo-Luddite artists. exciting first glimpses of the precise nature of our future dystopia???
March 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
society (my social media timeline) is already splitting into soulless AI techbro fascists vs impassioned Neo-Luddite artists. exciting first glimpses of the precise nature of our future dystopia???
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UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say
Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
I’m on a plane and the turbulence is both JUICY and BOUNCY. please distract me by telling me something nice that’s happened to you lately, thank you!!!
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I’m on a plane and the turbulence is both JUICY and BOUNCY. please distract me by telling me something nice that’s happened to you lately, thank you!!!
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I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid.
www.vulture.com/article/mara...
www.vulture.com/article/mara...
My Cool Friend Michelle
Other kids called Trachtenberg a bitch, but in our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.
www.vulture.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid.
www.vulture.com/article/mara...
www.vulture.com/article/mara...
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Official fan art for @lexcroucher.bsky.social ‘s wonderful ‘Gwen & Art Are Not In Love’
March 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Official fan art for @lexcroucher.bsky.social ‘s wonderful ‘Gwen & Art Are Not In Love’
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finally got my hands on @lexcroucher.bsky.social 's Not For The Faint of Heart and devoured it in a day, so have some art of the girls, and a bluesky exclusive sketch of mariel ✌️
February 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
finally got my hands on @lexcroucher.bsky.social 's Not For The Faint of Heart and devoured it in a day, so have some art of the girls, and a bluesky exclusive sketch of mariel ✌️
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WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death
February 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death
well. yes. I agree it’s not the AUTHOR’s job to run around trying to get blurbs for marketing and publicity, as this is not their job or skill set. but the publisher? the people in charge of Marketing And Publicity? perhaps this might be mysteriously linked to them somehow?
January 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
well. yes. I agree it’s not the AUTHOR’s job to run around trying to get blurbs for marketing and publicity, as this is not their job or skill set. but the publisher? the people in charge of Marketing And Publicity? perhaps this might be mysteriously linked to them somehow?
reading with cricket vs reading with remy
January 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
reading with cricket vs reading with remy
reintroducing myself trying to find my people on here!! hello I’m lex croucher I write queer books and run around after two kittens (remy and cricket) who love to bite toes and do kick flips
January 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
reintroducing myself trying to find my people on here!! hello I’m lex croucher I write queer books and run around after two kittens (remy and cricket) who love to bite toes and do kick flips
drinking my morning tea out of my Irony Mug (this is old unofficial HP merch & actually a quote from one of the books) (ha ha ha)
January 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
drinking my morning tea out of my Irony Mug (this is old unofficial HP merch & actually a quote from one of the books) (ha ha ha)
finished writing a book today. my reward? two fillings at the dentist. going to ask him if he’ll numb other parts of me, just for fun
January 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
finished writing a book today. my reward? two fillings at the dentist. going to ask him if he’ll numb other parts of me, just for fun