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Will Forrest, the writer
@willthewriter.bsky.social
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Purveyor of nonbinary finery & queer romances for wounded hearts.
AuDHD 🍁🦘🏳‍🌈🍉 No Space For Hate
find my books at willforrest.com
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Convincing you to preorder Author, Author with quotes of Ben overthinking:

Living people kept on living…Kept on thinking about everything they might have done differently, every choice they wish they could make again. Life wasn’t a story, it was a strip of film—single exposure, no edits. No mercy.
Promo graphic for Will Forrest's novel Author, Author. A photo of an old typewriter, zoomed in on the sheet of paper sticking out of the carriage, showing a quote from the book. "Living people kept on living…Kept on thinking about everything they might have done differently, every choice they wish they could make again. Life wasn’t a story, it was a strip of film—single exposure, no edits. No mercy."
April 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Dropping in just to remind everyone that you can preorder my next book Author, Author & have it in your hot lil hands in just over TWO WEEKS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

In other news, don’t let me write any more characters with anxiety for a while, I channel that shit.
books2read.com/authorauthor...
promo graphic for Will Forrest's next novel Author, Author: a Midcentury Gay Romance, showing the cover of the book and a list of the story tropes: 1950s NEW YORK BANNED BOOKS CELEBRITY CRUSH SUNSHINE/GRUMP PTSD & ANXIETY “EVERYTHING FOR YOU” QUEER SIDE CHARACTERS
April 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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What does your brain look like while editing?
A red flag hangs from a gymnasium wall. It reads: we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy
March 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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I'm so tired... buy my books idk.
meme comparing two images. On the left a house on fire, with the caption "the world" and on the right a sad emoji face and an image of a book cover with the caption "me: so anyway I wrote this book..."
March 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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BOOK SALE! It's Smashwords' 16th annual Read an Ebook Week and my whole on-site catalog is 50% off! Queer & MF smoochy shenanigans at anti-inflation prices - what's not to love?
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
Graphic for Will Forrest's books on Smashwords, to promote the Read an Ebook Week sale. A selection of Will's book covers are displayed on a subtle orange and gold background.
March 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I'd be way more into Valentine's day if this was the mood.
#valentinesday
A photo of a gloomy graveyard. Black and pink hearts are scribbled in the corners of the image. The two-tone pink text reads: thorny roses broken hearts diamond tears deadly chocolates first date: getting lost in an enchanted hedge maze honeymoon destination: a windswept highland moor couple goals: buried in the same crypt #everydayishalloween
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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In honor of National Werewolf Day, I'm having a flash sale on my direct sales store for my disaster gay shifters in love novella series Hollowood Falls.
4 books in one, only $1.99 (Canadian, which is like a buck and a quarter for my US friends)
books.willforrest.com/HollowoodFal...
🌈👬📚
A promo graphic advertising Will Forrest's cozy shifter novella series Hollowood Falls.
February 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Greetings!
I am the author, blogger & general nuisance Will Forrest and I have a new book coming out Apr 23: Author, Author, a midcentury queer romance of love, loss, and the inalienable right to read dirty books.
#QueerBookSky
#QueerPrompts
A promo graphic for Will Forrest's upcoming novel titled Author, Author. The cover of the book is a black and white line illustration of the main characters Ben and Harlan, standing with their arms around each other. Behind them is the New York skyline. A red and pink heart floats behind them in the sky. Below the book is text that reads: April 23 2025
February 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Trickle Down Theory is doing some NUMBERS today - get it for free & 100s of other Romance books - one day only - romancebooklovers.com #romancebookblast
A screenshot of the Amazon sales rankings for Will Forrest's novel Trickle Down Theory. The book is number 8 on the Love Triangle Romance chart, number 20 on the Polyamorous Romance chart, and #28 in Gay Romance. a promo graphic for Romance Book Blast, a free book promotion. Pink and lavender hearts float behind text bubbles describing the event (see post for details.) the url is www.romancebooklovers.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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my TBR: *sobs* I…I can’t…
Romance Book Blast: you’ll take these books like a good lil pet…

Now that I have your attention:

Get in on 1000+ FREE romance books of every genre in the Romance Book Blast on Jan 28. Watch this space for the link
#romancebook|#romancelandia
A promo graphic for the free ebook event Romance Book Blast. Over a background of pink and purple hearts, an image of a smartphone shows the event's homepage. Grey text bubbles float beside it, reading: 1000+ Romances - no sign ups, no commitments 12 categories, Sweet to Spicy, Contemporary to Fantasy and everything in between One day only - January 28th, 2025
January 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Every now and then I think about this interaction I once had and I have to put down my phone and gaze out the window for a little.
a screenshot of an interaction on Threads. don_wyoming says "stahlp with the subsidies nonsense. Oil subsidies go to Mom & Pop oil companies so they can compete with big oil. They don't go to major oil companies." willforrestthewriter replies "lol sure. can we get some receipts on that?"
January 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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me: this holiday was fun but I'm kind of ready to get back to work
the work:
me: 😶😫
#selfpublishing
A screenshot of a computer desktop crammed with an unholy number of unsorted file thumbnails. Text on the lower right reads: we didn't come all this way just to come all this way.
January 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Post your favorite #DoctorWho.
Wrong answers only.
A still frame of the character Mentok the Mindtaker from the Adult Swim program Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Mentok, a green skinned man with pointed ears, dark hair and beard and glaring yellow eyes is levitating behind the judge's bench.
January 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I'll give you three guesses where I am. The first two don't count.
a photo of Mt. Fuji. Snow crowns the nearly conical mountain. The sky is a cloudless deep blue, paling near the lower slopes of the mountain. Below it spreads the resort town of Kawaguchiko.
January 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Even though the love hotel has thoughtfully provided a "toy cover" (that little black package to the upper left) there is NO WAY IN HADES.
A photo of the complimentary devices in the room at a Japanese "love hotel." A pink and purple panel with light switches is built into the headboard of the bed. Before it on the pillow lies a, er, personal massager designed in the style of the legendary Hitachi Magic Wand and sheathed in a presumably hygienic plastic bag. Not shown: the photographer's dubious side eye because who the fuck wants to share a communal sex toy?
January 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Tin's Hall, a damn good bar (or so the sign says) and our haunt in Osaka for most of 2004. It has not changed a bit. I hope the burgers are still as good as ever.🤞 #divebars
A photo of the interior of Osaka's finest dive bar, Tin's Hall, a dark, smoke-scented bar where they play early Rolling Stones and surf music. The spotlights from the cramped stage gleam on the clustered tabletops, blue light flooding the right of the image. A grinning red heart is painted on the rear wall of the stage. The vibe is chill as fuck. A photo of the bar at Osaka's finest dive bar Tin's Hall. Lights gleam off the mirrored shelf of liquor bottles. A nearby pillar is covered in instant photos of dozens of current and former customers, me included! The owner Tin, a slim Japanese man with bleached hair, is standing behind the bar, talking to a customer who is not in the photo.
January 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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La, time for an intro post! (Tho a lot of my new followers are Threads refugees. What, you're not sick of my shit yet?)
I write kissing books about disaster queers & the occasional straight couple 😄
I like kink & coffee & revolutionary politics & my weirdo family.
Find my books @ willforrest.com
A nighttime selfie of author Will Forrest. Will is crouching amid a display of twinkling blue lights woven through an artificial hedge of white leaves. Washed in blue light, Will looks suspicious and moody, but they are really a small marshmallow on the inside who cries when someone is mean to them.
January 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The candies in question. (I destroyed the previous bag 😆)
A photo of a package of extremely sour lemon candy from Japan. The package is illustrated with a young man shrieking in pain as an enormous lemon grows from his head. The text proclaims a challenge to test your manliness by eating more than one candy at a time. Having eaten several I can attest that they are in fact ridiculously sour but also delicious, I have bought three bags to take home.
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Post a Pic that you took, with no description, to bring some peace to the timeline.
An overhead photo of the curving inner walls of Namba Parks, a multi-storey garden in the heart of Osaka. The tiled walls are reminiscent of a smoothly weathered canyon, the cloudy night sky flowing above like a grey river.
January 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Magical selfie st Namba Parks. No photoshop, no AI, just in camera composition and excellent lighting.
A selfie photo of Will Forrest. Their face is lit by a wash of blue, the cloudy night sky a subtle grey in the background.
January 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Vegans: CW for absurd quantities of meat.
The rest of you savages: behold my yakiniku
#JapaneseFood
At the yakiniku restaurant. A square black plate laden with slices of uncooked wagyu beef, densely marbled with fat and drizzled with sauce and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Slices of cooking wagyu beef laid in a pretty circle on a tabletop grill. A table grill at the yakiniku restaurant. Bright flames leap up from the grill, adding a delicious char to the slices of beef.
January 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Deliberately taking "ugly" photos is my flex against feeling like too much of a tourist. 🙃
A close up of the wall of a grimy garage in Osaka, Japan. A sacred pine branch has been duct-taped to the doorway to bring good luck in the new year, a collision of tradition and pragmatism.
January 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Happy New Year, scoundrels. Let's start some trouble
A graphic of overlapping brightly coloured clouds, green, blue, purple, red, yellow. The bold dark text reads 2025 Happy New Year.
January 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Suspicious Images tm

I believe these are marshmallows but no damn way was I taking that chance. Spotted at the Daiso in Namba, Osaka.
A small store display of pink objects which are probably meant to be sausage-shaped marshmallows on a stick but which look uncomfortably like a bouquet of penises. I'm sorry.
December 24, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Christmas in Osaka
Purple, blue, and gold Christmas lights decorate ginko trees along Midosuji, in Osaka, Japan. A dramatic and beautiful city scene. Gold and purple Christmas lights in the ginko trees illuminate the sidewalk along Midosuji Rd in Osaka Glowing purple Christmas lights reflect off the facade of a tall building. The camera points upward through the leafless branches to the night sky. Golden ginko trees at night along the busy Midosuji Road, Osaka.
December 20, 2024 at 12:21 PM