If Alchemised had been a real reworking of the author's previous fanfic and marketed without the explicit promotional link to Dramione (and thus Harry Potter and JKR), I think far fewer people would care that it began its life as fanfic.
But instead, this is how it was marketed:
AJW BOOKS OVERVIEW ✨
From 2022 to 2027 and beyond, I’ve been busy…
All books (and short stories) feature QUEER, TRANS BOYS & MEN, nearly all of them are AUTISTIC, and every single one is a stubborn bastard with a chip on his shoulder, whatever form that takes 🙏
I got to interview the incredible @LiselleSambury about A Mastery of Monsters, and it’s up on my blog now! Happy book birthday!
https://t.co/oV8Clmndt7
getting confronted about the fact you just got a book deal with no manuscript as a white man and saying "dragging everyone down leaves everyone at the bottom, but a rising tide raises all ships" is maybe the worst response you could've said
We’re thrilled to announce, in collaboration with R.F. Kuang (@kuangrf) and HarperVoyager (@HarperVoyagerUK), our Illumicrate Exclusive edition of Katabasis!
ITS UP 🪱 @SagaPressBooks
This squirming adult horror about a mute, autistic trans man, an unwanted pregnancy, and a cult of desperate violent people under the control of a hive of alien bugs, is available on Edelweiss!
Netgalley should be coming soon!!!!
Barilla pasta has a Spotify playlist. Each playlist is the exact length of cook time for the varieties of pasta.
Press play, drop the noodles, music stops, al dente noodles.
just hit 40k on my 2026 YA, YOURE NO BETTER ✨
POV: your father is a serial killer who made you watch, & participate, from the ages of 4 to 10 years old. how do you convince yourself you aren’t a monster? how do you stomach being trans when being a man makes you a man like him?