Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

🇿🇦 🇫🇮 Tattooed story-teller, climber, teacher, and peanut-butter connoisseur. Non-binary & autistic. They/them. BORN OF MALICE is coming in October!

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

AHHHHHHHH!!! I can finally show you the cover!!!

Look at this absolute beauty, painted by
@JEdwardNeill !! 😍😍😍

BORN OF MALICE from @RuadanBooks is now available for pre-order! (Link in the comments)

#booktwt #coverreveal

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@dungeonreader I am currently doing exactly that 😆😆

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

This should absolutely be a law everywhere!!

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Denmark just passed a law that every person owns a copyright to their own face, voice, and body. In the age of AI, this places more legal control in a person's hands, and there are real, large consequences and fines for breaking this law.

We need to make this worldwide.

[Ruadan Books @RuadanBooks]

Authors, join us for our 2026 Editors AMA on 8/12!

Questions about our current call for novels? Ask them here!

Our Editor-in-Chief R. B. Wood and acquisitions editor Anna Koon will be available to answer your questions on Zoom from 8-9 PM ET.

🔗 https://t.co/cqsY5Vp7st

#writingtips #AuthorsOfTwitter #writingcommunity #editors

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

Looking for a book to celebrate Women in Translation month? Here you go...

#booktwt #amreading

[Ruadan Books @RuadanBooks]

INFECTION POINTS by Elena Pavlova is now on Edelweiss!

Booksellers, librarians, reviewers—sink your teeth into this eco-horror novella with its infected vampires quick as you can.

🔗 https://t.co/FMhKwTMu2C

#vampire #booklover #novella #booktwt #horror #ecohorror

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We are now OPEN to manuscript submissions in the horror, thriller, and crime fiction genres!

Check out our guidelines and wishlist, then submit on Moksha.

Guidelines: https://t.co/5eSRPyDoGX

Submit: https://t.co/YDGnP6Dxqb

#writerscommunity #horror #thriller #crimefiction #author #writer #writingcommunity #indiepublishing #indiepublisher #noir

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@lj_hennes I exclusively use Google docs these days and sometimes libre office.

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

When you were meant to be planning an 8-10k short story and now have enough world-building and conflict for an entire novel. Well... whoops ?

#amwriting

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

my reading year so far ☀️
January: 14 books
February: 10 books
March: 15 books
April: 11 books
May: 10 books
June: 7 books
July: 10 books

You can tell which months were slower at work, and that I travelling in June kept me busy 😆

[Nyx¹ | booktwt + filmtwt⋆.𐙚 ̊ @dungeonreader]

my reading year so far ☀️

january: 7 books
february: 7 books
march: 9 books
april: 2 books
may: 9 books
june: 9 books
july: 9 books

I hate april

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

How did everyone else do this month?

#booktwt #amreading

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@Talen_Tails 🫂🫂🫂

[Ruadan Books @RuadanBooks]

We're all looking forward to a steampunk weekend, right? GOOD. Because this astounding novella is now available on NetGalley!

Reviewers, grab THE CITY OF FACTORIES by Naomi Eselojor and don your goggles. You're in for an epic ride.

NG: https://t.co/YeGx5UK2ST
UK: https://t.co/snOal7WjO4

In this Africanfuturist novella set in a steampunk Nigeria ravaged by invaders’ automatons, a young man sails to the City of Factories, determined to reunite with his abducted inventor father. Coming 10.13.26.

Cover art by the remarkable Sharif Muhammad.

#darkfantasy #Africanfuturism #steampunk #novella #BookRecommendation #booklover

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@TheLostElla I do not like to annotate unless necessary for study purposes.

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@EllieJayWrites Thank you!!

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

And the revisions are done!!

320 pages. 81 505 words.

The new YA horror novel is now complete and ready to be seen by others!

#amwriting

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

The embodiment of Nightmare is just trying to live her best life when her annoying little brother and the embodiment of Chaos crawls out of a grave and back into her life!

Born of Malice is available for request on Netgalley!

https://t.co/4w416ZNhn8

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@helianthos_a Lee Mandelo - Summer Sons; all books by Johanna van Veen; YA books by CG Drews; When Among Crows by Veronica Roth; books by Jamison Shea; Slewfoot by Brom. These are quite a mix of styles, but all horror, so hopefully something hits the spot without being too much 😆

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@DivinationBlog Thank you!!

[Xan van Rooyen 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @Xan_Writer]

@helianthos_a I struggle with horror too and don't do slasher stuff but I LOVE T. Kingfisher. I can send a few more recommendations like that if you want ?