TJ Alexander

they/them. Writing queer romance. Please consider my books and/or my tip jar.

[tjalexandernyc]

Out Feb. 9, 2027

Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. Art direction by James Iacobelli.

Synopsis:

From the nationally bestselling author of Chef's Kiss and A Lady for All Seasons, a COVID-conscious trans romance in which a cryptid hunter searching for a mythical lake monster finds love with a grumpy skeptic. Twenty-something Nathan Camber is fresh out of both grad school and ideas on what to do next. Dealing with a dire job market is hard enough as a gay neurodivergent man—so he doesn’t. Instead, he decides to pursue his lifelong hyperfixation: cryptids. Leaving the city behind for the rugged, pine-scented landscape of upstate New York, Nathan sets his sights on the Salamander Man, a Nessie-like local legend with none of the Loch Ness clout. (Start small, his therapist always tells him!) But Nathan’s new fifty-something landlord, Mack, is a grumpy, grizzled, handsome skeptic who wants to protect his peaceful isolation and hard-earned safety deep in the woods. Nathan refuses to settle for a lackluster, normie life, though, and convinces the stoic recluse to help him find the creature. As the hunt (and their growing attraction) heats up, Nathan and Mack realize there’s more than one mystery to uncover in the lake. But if the secrets they’re keeping from each other come to light, they might both get dragged under. Kinky hijinks and monstrous mayhem abound in this queer, trans love story for our bizarre modern age.

Preorder at your local shop or retailer of choice.

This Bookshop link gives me a tiny bit of $.

You can also order a signed, personalized copy from my local nonprofit bookstore Word Up Community Bookshop.

Content notes here. (Contains spoilers.)

[taskmastercaps]

[ID: Eight screencaps from Taskmaster. Joel Dommett reaches up one finger to burst a floating bubble, then looks around open-mouthed and ecstatically happy. Later, in the studio, Greg Davies says, "I'm just enchanted, watching Joel do anything, really, because he throws himself into it with such glee. And then every now and again, I just go, 'Oh, my God, he's 40!'" Joel says cheerfully, "Yeah. Mad, isn't it? I pay a mortgage." End ID.]

[tjalexandernyc]

Out Feb. 9, 2027

Illustration by Liam Eisenberg. Art direction by James Iacobelli.

Synopsis:

From the nationally bestselling author of Chef's Kiss and A Lady for All Seasons, a COVID-conscious trans romance in which a cryptid hunter searching for a mythical lake monster finds love with a grumpy skeptic. Twenty-something Nathan Camber is fresh out of both grad school and ideas on what to do next. Dealing with a dire job market is hard enough as a gay neurodivergent man—so he doesn’t. Instead, he decides to pursue his lifelong hyperfixation: cryptids. Leaving the city behind for the rugged, pine-scented landscape of upstate New York, Nathan sets his sights on the Salamander Man, a Nessie-like local legend with none of the Loch Ness clout. (Start small, his therapist always tells him!) But Nathan’s new fifty-something landlord, Mack, is a grumpy, grizzled, handsome skeptic who wants to protect his peaceful isolation and hard-earned safety deep in the woods. Nathan refuses to settle for a lackluster, normie life, though, and convinces the stoic recluse to help him find the creature. As the hunt (and their growing attraction) heats up, Nathan and Mack realize there’s more than one mystery to uncover in the lake. But if the secrets they’re keeping from each other come to light, they might both get dragged under. Kinky hijinks and monstrous mayhem abound in this queer, trans love story for our bizarre modern age.

Preorder at your local shop or retailer of choice.

This Bookshop link gives me a tiny bit of $.

You can also order a signed, personalized copy from my local nonprofit bookstore Word Up Community Bookshop.

Content notes here. (Contains spoilers.)

[northshorewave]

Handing the Google executive currently chained in my basement a piece of paper that reads "Shall I end your torture?" with one checkbox that reads "No" and another that reads "Maybe later."

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 14 July 1970, Puerto Rican street gang-turned activist group the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital’s major administrative building in response to the city’s indifference to the health needs of Puerto Ricans and Black people in the South Bronx and the deplorable conditions of health care delivery at Lincoln Hospital. The Young Lords' actions at New York hospital were an extension of the group’s activism around issues of public health in East Harlem. Their health activism included the Garbage Offensive, which protested against irregular sanitation services; the launch of breakfast programs for poor children; the Lead Offensive, during which they conducted door-to-door medical home visits in collaboration with progressive nurses, medical technicians and doctors to test local children for lead poisoning and adults for tuberculosis, and the takeover of a city operated tuberculosis truck. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8579/the-young-lords-occupy-hospital

[bightmarks]

I have seen everyone’s posts about which Dropout comedians would be good on Taskmaster and have now also seen enough Dropout shows to have arrived at the Most Correct Take

obviously, OBVIOUSLY, the Dropout comedian who would be most compelling on Taskmaster is Grant Anthony O’Brien

do I think he would be best at or even particularly unusual in how he completed the tasks? I do not

do I want to see what happens to Greg Davies when he has to spend 5 days with a horny bisexual libertine who is—and this is important—two inches taller than him?

good god, yes

I want it so much

[tjalexandernyc]

op you're so right about this. the height gag is compelling (one forgets just how tall Grant is sometimes) and Grant's comedy persona is just anxious enough that I think it would make for really excellent "I panicked" timed task moments

but the thing I would be most excited to see is the lateral thinking. it would reach echelons previously undiscovered. we're talking about a man who, when the concept of being a bachelor contestant was sprung on him, took his boss aside and successfully argued for a polyamory endgame. show me a guy who got to bring two hotties on an all expense paid vacation instead of one and I'll show you a man who would be pure tasking gold

[soundclown]

[teethwreath]

[judasisgayriot]

DJ dubcon hopes everyone in the club is having a good time tonight but he’s not going to check

[tjalexandernyc]

May I introduce A Lady For All Seasons, out March 10 from Vintage Books? You can help support this sapphic-ish, gender-bending Regency romp by preordering now.

Signed copies available.

Add to GR or Storygraph.

Content warnings and notes here. This is a sequel to A Gentleman's Gentleman, but you don't have to read it to understand this one.

Here's the gist:

From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss and A Gentleman's Gentleman comes a riotous Regency romp, featuring a charming and unforgettable genderfluid lead. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman who has lost her fortune must be in need (not want) of a husband. Beautiful, cunning Verbena Montrose must marry to save herself and her odious family from abject poverty. Fortunately, what she lacks in a dowry, she makes up for in the currency of gossip. When she hears an alarming rumor about her very dear, very queer friend Étienne that could ruin him, she comes to his aid with a proposal—for a marriage of convenience, that is. But when Verbena discovers that a mysterious and celebrated poet by the name of Flora Witcombe has been publishing verses that hint she is onto their scheme, Verbena has no choice but to pretend to be a poet herself to confront her in a local salon. And—unexpectedly—be charmed by her. Flora, in turn, is terrified by and smitten with Verbena in equal measure. But she holds a secret of her own: he is also William Forsyth, a struggling novelist and fifth son of a minor noble family. And if circumstances don’t allow Flora to woo Verbena, perhaps William can. Faced with two suitors and a fiancé, Verbena, who has always had to be clever to survive in society, starts to realize she may need to think outside of society’s constraints to find true happiness.

Cover photograph © Sudha Peravali.

You can find my other books here.

[tjalexandernyc]

a lil reblog for non-binary day

[taskhusbands]

Taskmaster S17E08 Outtake

[luminouslumity]

[thenaiads]

[tboy-cock]

trans clown getting top surgery and the surgeon pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his breast tissue and pulls out his

[chucktaylorupset]

trans clown not just getting top surgery but big top surgery

[tjalexandernyc]

hey nonbinary people here are some books I wrote with nonbinary people in them

My first romcom, Chef's Kiss, is about a pastry chef at a food magazine falling for her kitchen manager, Ray, who comes out at work as nonbinary. It's a slow burn for foodies.

The sequel, Chef's Choice, is about Luna and JP fake dating while trying to win an inheritance-based cooking challenge. It's T4T and features a few nonbinary side characters, Ray included.

And then there's Triple Sec, a polyamorous romcom about a bartender getting picked up by a queer couple. One of the couple, Kade, is nonbinary.

Anyhoo happy day

[tjalexandernyc]

@loamwords saw your tags about A Lady For All Seasons which lol I completely forgot to include. (Regency comedy of errors, genderfluid main character.) Unfortunately it won't be available for sale in the UK and its environs because no one bought the UK rights to it :( It might be possible for UK folks to order it from the US, but I don't know the best way to go about that, sorry!

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming

"The Trump administration is abandoning its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally, according to an official document obtained by NPR.

The document shows that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing a proposed rule that would have blocked all Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care."

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[tjalexandernyc]

This is a relief, of course, but as the article says, there still remains a question of the hospitals that prematurely ended their trans youth services before this rule was finalized. If the chilling effect remains, that would be a win-win for this administration: drastically reduced or no care options for trans kids with none of the legal hassle of actually putting the rule into effect.

Personally I will be contacting my mayor again. NYC has had two major hospitals abandon their trans youth patients and now is the time to pressure them into restarting. These kids deserve better. The Mamdani administration recently sent out an email to constituents who had lodged complaints, saying, "Our Law Department has submitted an amicus brief opposing subpoenas that sought the medical records of transgender patients, and we stand ready to litigate any threat to gender-affirming care for youth and adults." Well, a threat is still a threat until that care is restored. What these hospitals did was legally and morally wrong and they should be compelled to fix their mistake.

[dragotzenny-deactivated20150825]

Key & Peele: Movie Hecklers

[tjalexandernyc]

hey nonbinary people here are some books I wrote with nonbinary people in them

My first romcom, Chef's Kiss, is about a pastry chef at a food magazine falling for her kitchen manager, Ray, who comes out at work as nonbinary. It's a slow burn for foodies.

The sequel, Chef's Choice, is about Luna and JP fake dating while trying to win an inheritance-based cooking challenge. It's T4T and features a few nonbinary side characters, Ray included.

And then there's Triple Sec, a polyamorous romcom about a bartender getting picked up by a queer couple. One of the couple, Kade, is nonbinary.

Anyhoo happy day

[killhitleragain]

PBS and NPR were never beholden to the US government.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created so that the US government could fund public media without public media being influenced by the government. It was a private non-profit funded by the government, not a part of the government itself. This is by design. This was a good thing. It meant that even small local TV and radio stations, could afford to create media for the public good, without government influence.

This meant TV and radio stations for poor communities. For non-english speaking communities. For rural communities. For minorities. It meant that free and accessible media could be created for everyone, even if the government didn't like it.

That's why conservatives defunded it.

Because if they couldn't control it, and if it helped the people they hated, then they would have to destroy it. Do you really think that a fascist government would defund their own propaganda machine?

Not only is the idea that PBS before being defunded was propaganda wrong, but ignores the fact that defunding it is going to have long-term negative effects on vulnerable communities.

OP of the post in the screenshot called me an idiot and blocked me for pointing this out. So I'm setting the record straight. The CPB was never our enemy.