check it out 🙏💕✨

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A collage of several posters, articles, and books, containing the following: - in the center, the cover of YOU’RE NO BETTER by Andrew Joseph White - The movie poster for Thoroughbreds - The official poster for Hannibal on NBC - The cover of CRACKED UP TO BE by Courtney Summers - Spotify cards for “Cacao and Cocaine” by SOFIA ISELLA, “Vicarious” by TOOL, and “Dog Years” by Halsey - The DC metro map - The trans and demigirl pride flags - The headline for “True Crime is Rotting Our Brains” by Emma Berquist - Wikipedia headlines for “Serial killer,” “intrusive thought,” “adverse childhood experiences,” and “complex post traumatic stress disorder.”

vibe/comp/aesthetic map for my upcoming YA thriller YOU’RE NO BETTER 🔪📸📱🏳️‍🌈

a deeply unwell kid tries to prove he’s better than his exploitative influencer mother and world-famous serial killer father. it goes badly.

My book, YOU ARE NOT YOUR BONES & Lesser Misfortunes, resting against a floral backdrop with a small stoppered bottle of animal bones

Happy Bonesiversary everyone! An ENOURMOUS THANKS to my editor over at @kithbooks.bsky.social who managed to polish my old writing to a shine (I hope you aren’t sick of me yet)
And to @artiodaktyl.bsky.social who took the doofy stick figure I gave him, and turned it into an incredible cover.

An event flyer for a virtual panel titled "Celebrate Halfway to Halloween," presented by the Anderson County Library System. The top of the flyer features a dark purple background with green lightning bolts. The title "Celebrate Halfway to Halloween" is written in large, gold, stylized script. Below it, text reads "A Virtual Event" and "April 15th, 6:00pm - 7:30pm." A note in the corner mentions that registration is required to receive the Zoom link. The middle section describes the event as an online discussion about the horror genre and writing processes featuring best-selling authors. Four portrait photos of the panelists are arranged in a row: Rory Power Lisa Springer Andrew Joseph White Nat Cassidy At the bottom left, there is a portrait of the moderator, Becky Spratford, identified as the Co-Chair of the Horror Writers Association's Library Committee and author of "Why I Love Horror."

This is not an April Fools: Coming April 15th-- Halfway to Halloween virtual and in person at the Anderson County (SC) Library. All Ages of Horror included. Rory Power, Lisa Springer, Andrew Joseph White, and Nat Cassidy. Moderated by me.

Anyone can join via Zoom:

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ICYMI: I have a short story in @wenyilee.bsky.social’s YA horror anthology, THE KIDS CAME BACK WRONG!

It’s the last day of deer season in Whitepoint, Virginia, and Shrike + his boyfriend Possum (pictured below ✨) are about to have a very, very bloody morning.

I can’t wait to share more!

hehehehe 👀💕🪾

I'm editing THE KIDS CAME BACK WRONG, a YA horror anthology for fans of Weapons & Stranger Things!!!!

A class goes missing on a trip to the woods. 13 of the kids return, changed in ways they can't describe.

13 kids, 13 authors, 1 interconnected story. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, Fall 2027 🌲💚

here’s the link, pls consider preordering, mwah 💋

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/youre-no-b...

The “fucked up evil creature experiences remorse” meme with the cat biting an arm labeled “the reader.”

btw, the B&N preorder sale is happening. 25% off for members or something with code PREORDER25. you know the drill. my wife made this:

An advanced reader copy of YOURE NO BETTER by Andrew Joseph White being held in front of a planter of tulips.

advance copies of my fifth (!!!) book are finally home…

my hot writing take is that playing with POV is neat and you can do what you want. present tense first! close third! first-person-direct-address with bits of omniscient third! anything is legal if you look good doing it!!

You did SUCH AMAZING WORK on this!! I am honored 🥺💕✨

Today is World Book Day? Let's go!

I had the honor of illustrating the cover and edges of the special edition of You Weren't Meant to be Human, by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social for @illumicrate.bsky.social/@evernightbooks.bsky.social!

It was one of the coolest projects I've worked on last year 💗

A black, pink, and grey cover. The title is YOU’RE NO BETTER by Andrew Joseph White, written in scratchy text. The background is a shattered mirror with grey images - a man on the phone, a man drinking, an injured young woman - as a feminine trans boy in a school uniform kneels and looks at his bloody hands. There are crime scene photos on the floor at his feet.

YOU’RE NO BETTER cover reveal!!

My YA thriller about an autistic trans boy struggling w/ the legacy of his serial killer father in the age of true crime… is HERE!! (Check out the link for more!)

Thank you to @egallagher.bsky.social for another amazing piece 💕

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what if I said “cover reveal scheduled for next week”

You're No Better (Deluxe Limited Edition) by Andrew Joseph White: 9781682638224 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books PREORDER NOW to receive the limited deluxe edition—only available on the first printing while supplies last! This striking deluxe hardcover edition features metallic edges, illustrated...

📚 Preorder link:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/824817...

And if you’re a librarian, bookseller, or other industry professional, check out Edelweiss for a digital review copy! I’ll post another link once it’s more widely available for reviewers on Netgalley.

Have fun y’all 🫡

⚠️ Content warnings linked here. The list isn’t short.

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Black text reading “YOU’RE NO BETTER” in jagged, sketchy text.

YOU’RE NO BETTER - my newest book, a queer & gritty YA thriller about a boy trying to prove he’s nothing like his serial killer father - is now…

✨ Up for preorder, AND

✨ Has digital review copies available for request on Edelweiss!

More info below!! 🧵👇🏻

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20x30in - made in procreate

#art #artistonbluesky #illustration

saw IRON LUNG. it was very sexy. to me.

A hand-drawn image of a pig in an ICE uniform, with a trump-nazi ear tag. The text reads NOTHING CAN MASK THE STENCH OF A FILTHY PIG. They’ll pepper spray your children. They’ll unlawfully abduct your husband. They’ll shoot you in the face. THE PIGS WILL SLAUGHTER US.

found this week 🐽

330??? 😭 Ugh it’s so easy to forget how small YA really is in comparison when you spend nearly all of your time in this particular slice of the industry

The “WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE” SpongeBob meme, with no text.

etc etc

A Goodreads screenshot showing four books: HELL FOLLOWED WITH US, THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH, COMPOUND FRACTURE, and YOU WERENT MEANT TO BE HUMAN. Certain statistics are highlighted to show that YWMTBH has a higher to-read and currently reading count than TSBIT, and more ratings and reviews than CF.

I was Consciously aware that the adult lit market is Lightyears larger than the YA/teen lit market, because Obviously, but my four-month-old adult horror EASILY outpacing my one- and even two-year-old YA books really drove it home

me, stating a plain and simple truth to my wife just now: “I am incapable of having fun! I have a stick up my ass and am deeply whimsyless”

You're No Better In You're No Better, Morgan Slaughter must contend with…

Add it on GR:
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Check out content warnings:
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Hopefully we’ll get to show off the cover soon 🙏🌸

A white and pink graphic reading “YOURE NO BETTER: Official summary,” with broken glass in the background.

Black text on a white background, reading: “Bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with another horrific YA thriller: a profound portrait of a struggling teen trying to convince the world—and himself—that he’s better than the serial killer who raised him. Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago. Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself. Desperately, Morgan latches onto his father’s final victim—the only one who was never identified—hoping that if he unravels the mystery, he’ll finally prove he’s better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgan’s childhood—that he wasn’t just a witness to his father’s brutality, he was an accomplice. And if he doesn’t let them help with his investigation? They’ll tell everyone. Forced to confront his past, Morgan’s ugly but carefully controlled world unravels. The film crew is manipulative. His mother’s temper spirals into malice, then violence. And Morgan and Felicity may be more tightly intertwined than either of them can stomach… You’re No Better is a gritty and unapologetic coming-of-age suspense about teens who grew up surrounded by cruelty and are clawing their way to adulthood the only way they know how.”

my newest novel, YOU’RE NO BETTER—a teen thriller about messy trans kids and serial killers—has an official summary!

this book is a rough one, and it tackles a lot of ugliness, but I love it so much and can’t wait to share it 💕

God I LOVE THIS!!

A hip tattoo in black and gray. A set of antlers on a bed of worms, framed in twisted tribal shapes.

WORMS!! Loved working on this piece today based on the book You Weren’t Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social !!!

#tattoo #art