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ray stoeve (they/them)
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writer of YA and more. they/them.
🌈WORST-CASE SCENARIO out 1.20.26!
🌈BETWEEN PERFECT AND REAL, ARDEN GREY, and THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY out now!

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Calling all sapphic YA romcom lovers! You can now bid on a signed & personalized copy of THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY! Hayley and Talia are BFFs who team up on a very neurodivergent Plan™️ to find their first girlfriends…but is love actually right in front of them??

www.32auctions.com/organization...
July 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Hey high school teachers and librarians!! I am auctioning off an author visit from me ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD! In-person for Seattle-Tacoma; virtually elsewhere.

Proceeds benefit Queer Liberation Network’s programs! 💜

www.32auctions.com/organization...
July 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The world is a bleak place but these two were SO happy to see me when I got home the other day and let me tell you the high of that is still carrying me days later. We really don’t deserve animals.
A cat sits upright on a leopard print cat bed at eye level with the camera. She has a commanding green-eyed stare and dilute tortoiseshell coloring that is mostly silvery gray with some mottled pale orange. A handsome black lab lays on top of a green velvet throw that covers the cushions of a white leather couch. His head is slightly cocked and his expression is curious and alert.
March 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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🏳️‍⚧️ COVER REVEAL!! 🏳️‍🌈 WORST-CASE SCENARIO drops on January 20, 2026! Featuring a T4T type A vs class clown romance; a nonbinary MC w/ self-diagnosed anxiety (but it’s actually OCD); should social justice be serious or fun?; & what do you do when your recovering alcoholic dad reappears in your life? 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Yay, more praise for THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY!
January 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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If you are having lots of feelings today, Ziggy would like to offer you this feelings wheel pillow and also very soft ears to pet
A black lab sitting on a burnt orange fleece bedspread, looking at the camera with his paw on a cream pillow with a multicolored feelings wheel on it.
January 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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My third child, THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY, is out now! Get yourself some sapphic neurodivergent BFFs to dating swoony summer fun time anywhere books are sold! Here’s my face, and a few snippets from my newsletter abt what this book means to me 💖

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According to my computer file save dates, I first conceived of this book back in 2019. At that time, there were no sapphic YA romcoms that I knew of where a trans girl was the love interest. Back then (which feels weird to say about a date that was only five years ago, but also oh my god 2019 was FIVE YEARS AGO??), we didn't even call it "sapphic YA." We called it f/f YA. The f/f denotes the genders of the romantic pairing: female/female. For a lot of reasons, sapphic YA is a much better term, but I digress. I wanted to write a novel where the trans girl was the love interest, where her transness wasn't an issue but just another part of her that was seen and loved and valued, a book that spoke to the deep love I feel for the trans femmes in my life. I wanted the trans girl to be part of queer community and for there to be no question that of course she could be sapphic herself AND an object of sapphic attraction, which is something the queer community has often failed to recognize. Trans lesbians exist. Trans bisexuals exist. My then-partner provided key input to help me shape the character and the concept, and THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY was born. This book has my whole heart inside it. I started writing it in 2022, during a mental health crisis, and it became a source of deep joy for me. The characters grew with me, or I grew with them, and there's a point in the book where this revealed itself. No spoilers, but: 1 had to do a lot of healing that year, and as I approached this point in the book, in fact at the moment I wrote the exact scene, I realized that Hayley had been on the same journey, and needed to make the same realization I did. This is why writing is magic to me, why I love it so much. This is why this book is magic to me.
May 12, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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Rest in peace, Nex 💔🏳️‍⚧️

Below is a link abt their murder at school February 7th. Here, I’d like to highlight who they were.

www.pghlesbian.com/2024/02/grie...
February 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Hey writers, teachers, librarians, youth workers…

The Books for Palestine auction is LIVE! You can bid on my items and a bunch of INCREDIBLE offers from other authors, agents, editors and more!
November 7, 2023 at 5:09 PM
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Calling all reviewers, teachers, librarians, etc: ARCs for THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY, my sapphic YA romcom abt cis girl & trans girl BFFs who come up with a step by step plan to help each other find their first romances, are heeeere!!! I loved writing this book & hope you’ll love reading it. 🥰
November 2, 2023 at 11:48 PM
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My third YA novel, THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY, comes out May 7, 2024!

It’s a romcom abt a queer cis girl who teams up with her trans girl bestie on a plan to help each other find love, only to discover it may be closer than they think…

Preorders are open now and I LOVEEEE my cover 😍
August 23, 2023 at 11:24 PM
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Intro time! ☀️

I’m a nonbinary author with two YA novels abt queer and trans teens out now 🏳️‍⚧️

BETWEEN PERFECT AND REAL (2021) is abt a closeted trans boy cast as Romeo in the school play.

ARDEN GREY (2022) is abt a queer girl navigating her parents’ divorce & questioning if she’s ace.
August 23, 2023 at 11:21 PM