BIANCA TORRExLAMAR GILES
When town sweetheart goes missing, Etta can’t pass up the chance to fix her financial issues and debunk the town swamp monster. But when fact blurs with fiction, it leaves her overwhelmed questioning who—or what—she can trust
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you can now read my book early 🔪
it's a YA mystery with murder and twists and stuff but there's also enemies-to-lovers banter between an enby MC and autistic LI and you'll have to find out if they maybe get to kill people a little bit too 🥰
Thank you for reading!! <3
They Want Us Dead is about to start making its first baby steps into this world 👶
So here are some basic facts about the book that should help with what to expect and how to categorize it!
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autistic people make the best music but then they'll go on hiatus for 10 years to run an aviation magazine or give lectures on soviet bootleg technology
coping with grief in the normal ways: becoming a gym bro. collecting bags full of hair. working at a haunted house. carrying a platypus everywhere.
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it's understandable to have angry thoughts about the publishing industry but somehow time and time again it ends with authors fighting other authors—a lateral or downward punch—and no meaningful action
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this book is perfect if you like queer romance but have the attention span of a fly and want some murder and mystery to season your banter. it comes out april next year—and that's a threat.
As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.
As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”
I am weeping
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Join us at 6pm to chat about writing and get your books signed!
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This is what happens when you write a NB/M rom-com but then decide forced proximity would be way more fun if they're fighting for their lives against a murderer.
And it's available to order NOW from wherever you get your books!
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📢 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢
my next YA mystery, THEY WANT US DEAD, releases on april 28, 2026!
if this sounds like something you'd enjoy, stay tuned, because more news is coming very soon! 💛🤍💜🖤
A young woman stands hunched over a dark desk in the bottom half of the picture. Her face is hidden behind shoulder-length golden-blonde hair with strawberry undertones. Her dress is long with pink and blue accents, but leaves her shoulders and upper back exposed. A white, smoke-like fog rises off her and into the painted portrait behind her, which holds a young figure in white with a malicious glint in their eye and a wicked smile. The frame is curved and wooden, and the backdrop of the portrait is an ominous purple smoke. At the bottom of the image is the title "This Wretched Beauty" in a large, elegant font, as well as the words "A Dorian Gray Remix" framed beneath it in a smaller, sleeker font. At the top of the page is the name "Elle Grenier" in the same font as "A Dorian Gray Remix." The cover sits in front of a dark magenta background with a smoky texture, and is surrounded by a dot-line silver frame with elaborate detailing across the four corners.
The background is the same smoky magenta as for the cover reveal. This time, in the middle of the same silver frame is a text box holding the following words: London, 1867. Dorian Gray is the heir to a title and their family’s estate, but they’ve never been given the chance to decide whether that’s actually what they want out of life. Forcibly estranged from their father by their manipulative grandfather, Dorian feels trapped in the life that has been decided for them. Then one night they sneak out of their grandfather’s house, they meet a sweet and talented young painter named Basil, who immediately recognizes Dorian as his new muse. They agree to sit for Basil for a portrait, and Dorian is struck by the beauty and depth that Basil paints into their likeness—and they dare to begin hoping there might be more to life than being their grandfather’s perfect, empty-headed heir. Dorian is further elated when Basil introduces them to the world of molly houses and drag performers—they’ve never seen such joyful variety of humanity and gender expression. But, as the barrier between the London she knows and the one she's discovering begins to crumble, Dorian must face the fact that freedom and safety do not always come hand in hand. The aftermath of this realization pulls Dorian into a terrible downward spiral, torn between guilt over their own actions and hatred for the suffocating expectations of society, prompting them to push away those closest to them, surrounding themself instead with vapid courtiers and decadent socialites. And as Dorian’s spiral of self-loathing deepens, something strange happens—Basil’s portrait of them begins to change. Their smile becomes a little sharper, the glint in their eyes a little colder. Dorian will have to choose—embrace the wickedness within and allow themself to become what they were always meant to be, or dare to try for something far more fragile and dangerous: a life of their own making.
✨🪞 She’s here 🪞✨
I’m *beyond* excited to team up with @LGBTQReads to reveal the cover for THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY, out February 17th, 2026.
Shoutout to cover artist @vetyyr and designer L. Whitt for bringing to life the dramatic cover of my dreams. Check out the full reveal over on LGBTQReads!
if you were trying to buy a grave plot but the dude's name was Colton would you go somewhere else
got maam'd at the store yesterday and sir'd today so basically I'm they/themming by PEMDAS
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"A swift and suspenseful mystery full of righteous anger, comedic cynicism, and queer joy."
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