Alyson Greaves

I write transgender fiction

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WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN

When You Fell from Heaven is a trans/cis f/f slice of life romance set in 2003, in a fictional suburb of San Diego. Originally spurred by the thought, ‘Hey, those two girls from Bring It On should kiss,’ it currently spans two books and over four hundred thousand gay, gay words.

It’s uplifting! It’s sweet! And it’s got a hell of a lot of cheerleaders in!

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Max is a gymnast who can no longer pursue his passion. Taylor is a cheerleader with passion to spare. A brutal attack put an end to Maxwell Giordano’s gymnastics career and ruined his junior year. So he and his family moved across the country for a fresh start, and now all he wants is to keep his head down and graduate in peace with the rest of the class of 2004. Taylor Scott made cheer captain! And her greatest dream is to take the squad to regionals. Maybe even nationals! Except none of the other cheerleaders share her ambition, so she’s resigned herself to another year of cheering for the worst football team in the state. And then a new boy moves in next door, and he’s everything she’s been dreaming of! If she can just convince him to join the squad, the two of them could take it all the way. But complications loom: Taylor’s jealous boyfriend, Max’s overprotective family, and then there’s the small matter of Max’s current gender…

You can find book one, How to Fly, on Amazon, on Itch, and on a whole bunch of other stores.

While Maxwell Giordano is going through the motions at home, his alter ego Maxine is living the dream. She’s found her place — on the cheer squad, among friends — but keeping her two lives separate is driving her crazy. Taylor Scott’s senior year is going better than she’d ever dreamed, and she owes it all to Maxine. But the secrets are piling up, and one mistake could bring their carefully constructed world crashing down. Worse, she’s falling for Maxine, a girl who might not even exist after graduation! Together, they must face school, the squad, and Max’s traditionally minded family, all while concealing a love that is becoming impossible to deny.

Book two, All the Way, is also available on Amazon, Itch, and other stores!

I’m current writing book three on my Patreon, as well as releasing new chapters of The Sisters of Dorley two weeks before they become available anywhere else—also random other things, like chapters of my even-weirder-than-Kimmy android story Man-Machine Interface.

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Welcome to Dorley Hall is back! (in the UK)

Welcome to Dorley Hall, book one of The Sisters of Dorley, relaunches in the UK on April 23rd, and for a limited time, you can get 25% off your pre-order at Waterstones with code FEB26. Visit the website or app between Feb 17 and Feb 20 to pre-order!

Information about expanded distribution—and about Secrets—to come.

You can also find my other books here, and read the first three chapters of When You Fell from Heaven, my trans lesbian cheerleader series, right here for free.

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WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN

When You Fell from Heaven is a trans/cis f/f slice of life romance set in 2003, in a fictional suburb of San Diego. Originally spurred by the thought, ‘Hey, those two girls from Bring It On should kiss,’ it currently spans two books and over four hundred thousand gay, gay words.

It’s uplifting! It’s sweet! And it’s got a hell of a lot of cheerleaders in!

Alt text is in the image descriptions.

Max is a gymnast who can no longer pursue his passion. Taylor is a cheerleader with passion to spare. A brutal attack put an end to Maxwell Giordano’s gymnastics career and ruined his junior year. So he and his family moved across the country for a fresh start, and now all he wants is to keep his head down and graduate in peace with the rest of the class of 2004. Taylor Scott made cheer captain! And her greatest dream is to take the squad to regionals. Maybe even nationals! Except none of the other cheerleaders share her ambition, so she’s resigned herself to another year of cheering for the worst football team in the state. And then a new boy moves in next door, and he’s everything she’s been dreaming of! If she can just convince him to join the squad, the two of them could take it all the way. But complications loom: Taylor’s jealous boyfriend, Max’s overprotective family, and then there’s the small matter of Max’s current gender…

You can find book one, How to Fly, on Amazon, on Itch, and on a whole bunch of other stores.

While Maxwell Giordano is going through the motions at home, his alter ego Maxine is living the dream. She’s found her place — on the cheer squad, among friends — but keeping her two lives separate is driving her crazy. Taylor Scott’s senior year is going better than she’d ever dreamed, and she owes it all to Maxine. But the secrets are piling up, and one mistake could bring their carefully constructed world crashing down. Worse, she’s falling for Maxine, a girl who might not even exist after graduation! Together, they must face school, the squad, and Max’s traditionally minded family, all while concealing a love that is becoming impossible to deny.

Book two, All the Way, is also available on Amazon, Itch, and other stores!

I’m current writing book three on my Patreon, as well as releasing new chapters of The Sisters of Dorley two weeks before they become available anywhere else—also random other things, like chapters of my even-weirder-than-Kimmy android story Man-Machine Interface.

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You can read the first three chapters of How to Fly for free, right here on Tumblr!

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Where to buy and read my books

First up, all new chapters are posted first on my Patreon! You get access to new chapters of The Sisters of Dorley two weeks before they are available for free, and you get new chapters of my other stories months before they become available to buy anywhere else!

As for my books...

The Sisters of Dorley Book one: Welcome to Dorley Hall Book two: Secrets of Dorley Hall

What if the only way to fix toxic masculinity were to erase it entirely?

Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan never had, but one day he disappears without a trace. A year later, after encountering a woman who looks near-identical to Mark, Stefan becomes obsessed. He finds that dozens of young men have disappeared over the years, many of them students at the Royal College of Saint Almsworth, and most of them troubled or unruly. Why are students going missing? Who are these women who bear striking resemblances to them? And what is their connection to the selective student accommodation on the edge of campus, Dorley Hall?

Stefan starts studying at Saint Almsworth for one reason and one reason only: to find out exactly what happened to the women who live at Dorley Hall, and to get it to happen to him, too.

Welcome to Dorley Hall is available now in all bookstores! Secrets of Dorley Hall will be available later this year!

All the books listed below can be bought as EPUB files directly from itch.io, and on Kindle and paperback from Amazon!

When You Fell from Heaven Book one: How to Fly Book two: All the Way

Max is a gymnast who can no longer pursue his passion. Taylor is a cheerleader with passion to spare.

A brutal attack put an end to Maxwell Giordano’s gymnastics career and ruined his junior year. So he and his family moved across the country for a fresh start, and now all he wants is to keep his head down and graduate in peace with the rest of the class of 2004.

Taylor Scott made cheer captain! And her greatest dream is to take the squad to regionals. Maybe even nationals! Except none of the other cheerleaders share her ambition, so she’s resigned herself to another year of cheering for the worst football team in the state.

And then a new boy moves in next door, and he’s everything she’s been dreaming of! If she can just convince him to join the squad, the two of them could take it all the way. But complications loom: Taylor’s jealous boyfriend, Max’s overprotective family, and then there’s the small matter of Max’s current gender…

Book one, How to Fly, can be purchased right now! Book two, All the Way, is currently being published chapter-by-chapter on my Patreon!

Buy How to Fly at itch.io | Amazon | other stores

Read the first three chapters for free on Tumblr

Kimmy

John and Emily are a perfectly normal couple living in near-future suburban America, with plans to attend a perfectly normal Halloween party with Emily dressed in a perfectly normal android costume. But Emily has an accident, so John steps up to take her place, and that’s where things start to go wrong. Because the hollowed-out android they bought from John’s brother is supposed to be dead, and isn’t supposed to be influencing his actions, and when the time comes to take it off, it’s supposed to let him out…

A novel of transformation, alienation, and isolation.

Content warnings for this book can be viewed on the itch.io page. It is strongly recommended that you check them before buying.

A copy of the EPUB for Kimmy is available on my Patreon!

Buy Kimmy at itch.io | Amazon | other stores

Show Girl

How far would you be willing to go for your best friend?

Alex is a young man in the employ of James McCain: founder of a small software company, old family friend, and the only person Alex sees with any regularity. And with a trade show coming that could make or break the company, Alex has been working harder than ever before to get everything ready, to make James proud.

But when the models they’ve booked fall ill just days before the event, someone has to step in and fill their shoes… and their outfits.

Now Alex has to decide just how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to wear — for James.

A story of romance, self-discovery, and a truly embarrassing dress.

A copy of the EPUB for Show Girl is available on my Patreon!

Buy Show Girl at itch.io | Amazon | other stores

Stories yet to be released

You can also find on my Patreon several stories which have been published nowhere else!

The Catch is an illustrated novel in collaboration with Emory Ahlberg, a 3D comics creator, in which we have far too much fun writing a forced-fem spin on the basic premise of Fifty Shades. This novel is complete, and all chapters and illustrations can be found on Patreon. It will be out as a published novel when we both have the time to make it happen.

Regarding the Weapon is a short story about feminisation. That’s it. That’s the whole deal.

Life and (the Little) Death is a retelling of my novel Show Girl where James is now Jess, and Alex is just as thirsty for her. It is about half complete.

You can also find my fanfiction — mostly Homestuck; sorry — on AO3! And the first drafts of The Sisters of Dorley, Show Girl and a very cool story about a trans lesbian vampire, Glow Worm, are there too!

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How to Fly is out now!

How to Fly is the first book in my new trans novel series When You Fell from Heaven. It’s about being trans, being oblivious, and being really hella gay.

You can buy it on Kindle or in paperback from Amazon. Or you can get the ebook from any of these online stores, or on Itch.io!

And you can read chapters 1-3 for FREE before you buy, here on Patreon or right here on tumblr :)

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I just released the ninth chapter of the second book on my Patreon! All nine chapters so far are available to read right now for $5!

Chapters one through eight of book two.

Chapter nine.

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KIMMY

...is finally done! You can read the whole book now—including the final, just-released chapters—on my Patreon for just $3, or you can preorder the Amazon release here. (Amazon will have a paperback version on launch, and the epub will be available from Itch.io and other retailers.)

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Kimmy, the story of how a Halloween costume kinda sorta eats a guy, releases October 25th!

It’s quite a heavy story. Content warnings under the cut.

Content warnings for Kimmy:

Alienation. Sexual assault. Dissociation. Transmisogyny via allegory.

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KIMMY

...is finally done! You can read the whole book now—including the final, just-released chapters—on my Patreon for just $3, or you can preorder the Amazon release here. (Amazon will have a paperback version on launch, and the epub will be available from Itch.io and other retailers.)

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How to Fly is out now!

How to Fly is the first book in my new trans novel series When You Fell from Heaven. It’s about being trans, being oblivious, and being really hella gay.

You can buy it on Kindle or in paperback from Amazon. Or you can get the ebook from any of these online stores, or on Itch.io!

And you can read chapters 1-3 for FREE before you buy, here on Patreon or right here on tumblr :)

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For just three more days, How to Fly will be available as a full epub on my Patreon for everyone who subscribes at the $5 level! Featuring:

A lesbian cheerleader who doesn’t yet know she likes girls

A trans girl cheerleader who doesn’t yet know she’s trans

Their confused friends

If that sounds like something you want to read, sign up for my Patreon and check this post!

Finally, if you’d rather read How to Fly in paperback, you’ll be able to order it from August 23rd! (As well as buy it for Kindle and other e-readers.)

PS. $5 subscribers also get the full, revised ebook of Show Girl, my F/M transgender romance novel, and new chapters of When You Fell from Heaven! And all subscribers get access to new chapters of The Sisters of Dorley two weeks before they go free, but that’s for another post...

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One more day to get this book on Patreon!

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The ebook is no longer available on Patreon, but you can read the first three chapters for free right here!

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For just three more days, How to Fly will be available as a full epub on my Patreon for everyone who subscribes at the $5 level! Featuring:

A lesbian cheerleader who doesn’t yet know she likes girls

A trans girl cheerleader who doesn’t yet know she’s trans

Their confused friends

If that sounds like something you want to read, sign up for my Patreon and check this post!

Finally, if you’d rather read How to Fly in paperback, you’ll be able to order it from August 23rd! (As well as buy it for Kindle and other e-readers.)

PS. $5 subscribers also get the full, revised ebook of Show Girl, my F/M transgender romance novel, and new chapters of When You Fell from Heaven! And all subscribers get access to new chapters of The Sisters of Dorley two weeks before they go free, but that’s for another post...

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One more day to get this book on Patreon!

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For just three more days, How to Fly will be available as a full epub on my Patreon for everyone who subscribes at the $5 level! Featuring:

A lesbian cheerleader who doesn’t yet know she likes girls

A trans girl cheerleader who doesn’t yet know she’s trans

Their confused friends

If that sounds like something you want to read, sign up for my Patreon and check this post!

Finally, if you’d rather read How to Fly in paperback, you’ll be able to order it from August 23rd! (As well as buy it for Kindle and other e-readers.)

PS. $5 subscribers also get the full, revised ebook of Show Girl, my F/M transgender romance novel, and new chapters of When You Fell from Heaven! And all subscribers get access to new chapters of The Sisters of Dorley two weeks before they go free, but that’s for another post...

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Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves is out now!

“a story so intimate and psyche-gripping I had to remind myself to breathe” TORREY PETERS

“this wildly original novel is a sly, subversive satire of toxic masculinity wrapped around the heartfelt story of a trans woman fighting to find genuine gender expression” LAYNE FARGO

“a morally complex and deeply humane novel that uses society’s biggest fears about gender to explore fundamental questions about how it affects us all.” RAE STOEVE

What if the only way to fix toxic masculinity were to erase it entirely? Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan never had, but one day

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REGARDING THE WEAPON

A short story. Exclusive to my $5 patrons.

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This Trans Awareness Week I’m highlighting my M/F trans romance novel SHOW GIRL. This fully revised version is eggier than ever!

You can buy it on Amazon (US, UK), on Itch, and from other online storefronts. And all $5 subscribers to my Patreon get a full copy of the epub!

A short excerpt:

“Alex,” James said, adopting his serious voice, the one he put on to talk to real businesspeople, “shut the door and come sit down. I have a proposal for you. A… business proposition.” Confused but compliant, I did as he asked, settling into the chair next to Ben and putting on my attentive face, the one I used to receive and consider business propositions. “What kind of proposition?” I asked. I was starting to get uncomfortable with the attention they were paying me. I welcomed it from James — he saved for me a smile that was barely a smile, just a curl in one corner of his mouth — but having a stranger regard me so intensely was unsettling. James steepled his fingers. “I had a quick skim through your contacts for booth babes — trade show models, sorry — and couldn’t find anyone who still had availability. Even the high-end places are booked up. You were very thorough.” “Thanks!” I said, perking up. Compliments from James were always welcome, however readily and often he offered them. It took me a moment to process the implications behind what he’d said, and when I finally did, I matched his frown. “Does that mean we don’t have a second model, then?” “That,” James said, “is the question before the court.” I was confused, and said so. “Ben here is an exceptional drag queen—” “Performance artist in the medium of drag,” Ben interrupted. I could almost hear the extra e in ‘artist’, and started wondering, as he and James shared a smile at the obvious in-joke, how much detail James had left out of his stories from university. Then, once again processing important information multiple seconds after receiving it, I realised what James was getting at. “You want to use a drag queen?” I said. They were both silent for a moment. I used the time to look Ben over. He was attractive, no doubt about it, with a deep, melodic voice, a carefully trimmed beard and, now that I could see him in the good light of James’ office, the faintest suggestion of sparkling eyeshadow highlighting his dark skin. I imagined he was wonderful on stage. At the expo, though, he’d make a statement louder than our product. “Not me, darling,” Ben said, smiling gently at me. I realised I’d been staring, and looked away. “James here wants to use you.”

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THE SISTERS OF DORLEY

A closeted trans girl discovers a secret forced feminisation programme and exploits it for free transition healthcare.

CHAPTER 35: WILDERNESS

Read on Patreon here, from $3!

This chapter will be exclusive to Patreon for the next two weeks!

You can read chapters 1-34 on AO3 or Scribblehub, and buy the books on Amazon or Itch!

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going feral as an enjoyer of boring breakfasts when someone in the book I’m reading pours herself a generous bowl of muesli

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im yelling