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ray stoeve (they/them)
@raystoeve.bsky.social
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
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
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.
March 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
🏳️‍⚧️ 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
Yay, more praise for THE SUMMER LOVE STRATEGY!
January 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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
January 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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 💖

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
May 12, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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
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
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
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
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