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hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones
@littlehux.bsky.social
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they/them and mayhem

writing fantasy kidlit and romcoms. queer disabled joy always. ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

📚 Reality Check, Make You Mine This Christmas, Under the Mistletoe With You, Hits Different, Vivi Conway

www.lizziehuxleyjones.com
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littlehux.bsky.social
The news is out so I can finally point at this. Yes this is my publisher of the Vivi novels. I’m devastated that another company started to change things up in this industry has failed to thrive. I don’t know any more so pls be compassionate to the authors.

www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
Independent children's publisher Knights Of set to close NEWS OCT 29, 2025 BY PHILIP JONES DI BOOKSUE LOGIN TOPICS NEWS RIGHTS COMMENT BESTSELLERS BOOKS SPOTLIGHT EVENTS The company - which as of 16th October ceased trading - is expected to go into liquidation during the week of 10th November. Shareholders include co-founder and MD Aimée Felone, co-founder Dee Stevens, and authors Robin Stevens and Sophie Anderson. No reason has been given for the collapse, though it is understood that KO had been talking to publishers about a potential sale for sometime. Knights Of would not comment when contacted by The Bookseller, except to confirm its closure. This week its offshoot bookshop Round Table Books - which is a separately run Community Interest Company - launched a fund-raising initiative to move into bigger premises. Knights Of was founded in 2017 by two former Scholastic employees, Aimée Felone and Dee Stevens. The company name is a reference to the Knights of the Round Table
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
I adore Frank Cottrill-Boyce
"It's going to be - as they say - absolute scenes in there," he added. "Let the yelling commence."
October 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
Just finishing up proof reading Reality Check today and thought it might be a good time to share the dedication.

It’s also the last day you can get Reality Check for twenty five percenties less than usual at big @waterstones.bsky.social with their OCTOBER25 dealio.
Hux holds a laptop up to their face. The screen reads: To all the autistic authors who came before and helped me find the words, and to all my autistic readers still searching for their own. Also, this one's for me too. Well done, kid. Hux wears a white knitted cardigan, green glasses and black headphones over their light brown hair.
October 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
Wrote a little about how Reality Check came to be.

open.substack.com/pub/lizziehu...
An announcer for my latest substack newsletter which says wrote a new book didn't I plus some witterings about writing it overlaid over the cover of the book.
October 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
Hello all, some bargainous news but if you preorder Reality Check from @Waterstones.bsky.social right now, you can save 25% with the code OCTOBER25 if you order before end of day on Friday the 17th!

(I promise, I’ve checked. My publisher sent me this official asset. I am COOL now guys)
Hux holds a laptop up to their face. On the screen it shows the cover of Reality Check and says Waterstones 25% off 2026 new titles. Preorder now with code October25 online only 14-17 October. Waterstones 25% off 2026 new titles. Preorder now with code October25 online only 14-17 October. Hux points at their laptop on the desk where the asset for the offer is loaded up on screen As before but I’m being a little goofy with my eyes closed
October 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
Tadaa, here’s the cover for my next romcom, Reality Check out April 9th (and available to preorder now!)

On reality tv, what’s behind the scenes will always filter through. It’s f/f, lovers to enemies to lovers, chaotic nonsense with hot disabled babes. 👰🏼‍♀️💓📚🎥✨
The paperback cover for Reality Check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones which shows two women in bridal dresses, facing forward but smirking at each other. One is tall blonde and fat, and the other is small and ginger haired. The background is a bisexual fade with confetti and film camera patterns.
October 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
The news is official! I can finally tell you that my next romcom Reality Check will be out in April next year!
A sunny selfie of Hux, a white person with auburn hair and green glasses, holding up a postcard to their face. The postcard is pink and purple and says Reality Check. A screenshot of the Bookseller announcement for my new novel. Simon and Schuster UK swoons for Lizzie Huxley-Jones’ ‘escapist’ reality show romance RIGHTS OCT 9, 2025 BY CASSIDY BAILEY. The photo shows Hux a white person with light auburn hair sitting on a couch in a green lead patterned suit, eyes closed and laughing. Simon & Schuster UK has acquired two new novels by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, who was previously published by Hodder & Stoughton. Deputy publishing director Molly. Crawford acquired world all-language rights in a two-book deal from Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency. The first of the two novels, Reality Check, is a "funny, escapist" romance between two women who share a kiss behind the scenes of a reality TV show and find themselves choosing between on-screen fame or true love. Reality Check will publish in all formats in April 2026. Crawford said: "I've long been obsessed with Lizzie's Christmas romances so am absolutely thrilled to be able to welcome them to the S&S list. Reality Check satiates a universal need for realistic romance elevated by unusual circumstance rather than narrative necessity. Lizzie captures the chaos and charm of reality TV, weaving a love story that delivers kick-your-feet romance alongside punch-in-the-gut relatable detail. It centres and celebrates queer love, living with chronic illness and freeing ourselves from life's filters. It's a novel you can't help but press into the hands of friends and I'm so excited to take it to market." Huxley-Jones is the author of the queer holiday romcoms Make You Mine This Christmas and Under the Mistletoe with You, the young adult summer romance Hits Different co-written with Tasha Ghouri, and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted fantasy series Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend. Reality Check is their third adult romance novel. Huxley-Jones said: "Reality Check brings together my deep fascination with reality television, with the concept of persona and masking, through the experiences of two queer women who just cannot seem to escape each other. There's hijinks and fake-dating arrangements and an autistic girl unravelling 'comphet' all within the bounds of a wedding-themed dating show. It's been a book in my heart for years and I'm so glad it will reach readers next year. "It is such a thrill and honour to bring my romcoms to the incredible team at Simon & Schuster, especially my wonderful editor Molly Crawford. They are not only a team who understand and respect commercial romance fiction, but one that deeply cares for their authors. It's been such a joy to work with them on Reality Check, my most ambitious romcom to date, and to see their enthusiasm at every step. I'm so thankful for my agent Abi Fellows finding my work such an enriching home."
October 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
shall we have another one?
Davina McCall standing outside at night on the external big brother set with a microphone. She is wearing a purple furry gilet
October 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
or maybe this one
A meme of Daisy and Peach from the Mario games. Daisy is leaning in saying “Are you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go ape shit” with wide blue eyes
October 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
Hello I get to announce my new romcom this week HOORAY so in the meantime I’m just going to drop pictures from my memes folder in this thread to give you a taste of what mess I’ve cooked for you x
A still from the Simpson’s where a woman holds a clipboard with options spite malice revenge boredom and profit. She ticks Revenge.
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
it’s also (a treat!!) paperback first and Waterstones has an exclusive edition a purple spredge or a normal edition for the same price, also LOOK at this cover
The cover for Moth Dark by Kika Hatzopoulou which shows a girl (Sascia) millimetres from kissing an elf with dark hair and purple marks on their cheeks. They are both surrounded by moths and a purple tone to the cover.
September 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
a happy birthday actually, here’s to 37.

yes I am sneaking online to share photos of me looking fit
Hux sits in a restaurant holding an espresso martini up in cheers. They wear a black linen shirt, sleeves cut to elbows, and their long bobbed hair is slightly wavy from the sea. Hux sits outside on a pool lounger drinking a Coke from a plastic cup, while wearing a blue and orange patterned halter bikini top and a green baseball cap that says gay and literate and pink sunglasses
September 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
Attack Ships on Fire I feel like this is how I seem to people. I'm autistic.
September 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
Ax turns into a scorpion and is massive so I think he wins overall but also how fucking massive is this scorpion the scale is whacked
An action figure of Ax a blue alien from the Animorphs series. He’s quadrupedal with two arms (think centaurs but aliens) and he has a scorpion stinger on the figure but I think that’s to emphasise the transformation
September 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
oh no they made the sexy alien one too
An action figure of the alien Visser Three from Animorphs. He has four legs and two arms so think of like an alien centaur but he’s also pink (I think that’s the figure not canon)
September 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
oh my god????
A 90s boxed action figure of Jake from Animorphs transforming into a Grizzly Bear but I cannot stress how all the dimensions look off and it’s terrifying
September 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
oh wow kidlit sales are down across the board which is bad but also
Fiona Watt falling slightly faster at 4.9%, while JK Rowling has shed 22.3% in sales, David Walliams is down 61.8% and even sales of titles attributed to the Australian Blue Heeler pup Bluey have dropped by just under a quarter.
September 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
It’s real back to school energy for me even though I have no school but do you know who does? Vivi and her pals. The first book Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend kicks off right now, exploring building friendships after bullying with an autistic main character featuring a disabled and queer cast!
Hux clutches the three Vivi Conway books to their face — they are Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend, and the Haunted Quest, and the Lost Hero.
September 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
fuck AI right but this is funny
A tweet reply from ClippyCoin that reads “Sounds like a transcendent vocal performance! Papa's Orchard's unique blend of styles clearly left a lasting impression on you.”
August 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
when anyone asks me if I’ve heard of KT tape
Two screenshots form the New Heights podcast episode with Taylor Swift. On the left Jason Kelce says “have you tried taping your ankles” and Taylor replies “big ankle tape guys”
August 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
Started writing my next-next romcom in earnest this morning which means I get to spend the afternoon reading something excellent as a reward yes my entire writing process is about treats
A paperback copy of Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young. The cover quote from Lyla Sage reads “heartfelt and hopeful, everything friends to lovers romance should be”. The illustration by Leni Kauffman showed a white tattooed girl with pink hair wearing a pink jumpsuit and a Samoan man with long hair in a bun holding a paint roller. They are standing in front of an American school bus.
August 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
I made a troll cross and I think it means you can’t be mean to me now x
A metal troll cross — black curved lines intersect to form a circle, the metal curved and twisted so each end kind of looks like a curly tail. There’s also a silver medal I won, both sitting on a kingdom of Loxwood map which is drawn up medieval tapestry style with a knight on a horse
August 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
I hope that those of you who stumbled into our corner and met Nerys got a bit of relief.
August 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
littlehux.bsky.social
A treat from my agent, Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body by @deanatta.bsky.social, whose writing I utterly adore. Exploring radical self acceptance, wins and losses, a life as choirboy to drag act to poet, Atta writes a testimony of a life lived. Out now!

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A pink paperback of Person Unlimited: an ode to my black queer body by Dean Atta, whioch shows a picture of a black man dancing through the air but only his face hands and feet are visible. The quotes read dean atta, speak you truth and say it loud says lemn sissay, a briliant moving memoir says Jackie Kay and wonderfully original, a fascinating exploration of identity, sexuality and love says Michael Rosen.
August 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
littlehux.bsky.social
More for the football gays, a historical graphic novel about Florrie, whose great-niece discovers was a footballer in the 1900s. Through letters and photos, we're taken from matches in London and Preston to lesbian clubs and the ban in 1921. Out now!
@vintagebooks.bsky.social
A hardback graphic novel called Florrie: a football love story by Anna Trench which shows an illustration of a woman in a striped jersey and shorts dribbling a football across grass.
August 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM