meryl wilsner (they/them)
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🏳️🌈❤️📝 | bestselling author of queer romance | they/them | rep’d by @whimsicallyours | https://t.co/mpvuhKbc3D
a pleasant peninsula
Joined September 2015
I’m probably supposed to be more professional about this but LFGGGGG ⚽️🏳️🌈🎥.
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adhd texting is changing subjects mid convo and just adding “unrelated:” to the beginning of the text so it doesn’t seem so out of nowhere.
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if i could choose one historical event to attend . it would be the mamma mia wrap party.
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This week I was uninvited to a library event I was excited about because my book is queer.
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okay so i no longer need the oral history of what happened between archie panjabi and julianna marguiles.
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I recently found a Pinterest board called “gender” that I didn’t remember making. All it was was this picture
Hey trans and non-binary people can I see who gives you gender envy.
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There’s a fat nonbinary butch lesbian on the cover of my next book!!! 💛🤍🖤💜
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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. specifically start reading it in public. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.
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🚨⚽️🌈 ALERT! SOCCER LESBIANS AHEAD 🌈⚽️🚨 . A veteran and a rookie dueling for a spot on the World Cup roster realize cooperation works better than competition, both on and off the field. GR: Cover design: Olga Grlic.Cover illustration: @PetraBraunIllu
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coworker: what's your book about?.me: it's a queer romance between a hollywood showrunner and her assistant. cw: can my husband read it without getting offended?.me: . i don't know? i don't know your husband. cw: he's homophobic. me: okay then no.
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Potential unpopular opinion: the enemies-to-lovers trope is too often NOT enemies-to-lovers so much as it is people-who-pretend-to-hate-each-other-but-actually-have-feelings-realize-they-have-feelings and that is not as good as actual enemies-to-lovers.
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Sometimes it’s easy to forget the world is not as accepting as those I keep close. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that writing books about women falling in love is any different from writing a man and woman falling in love. Weeks like this remind me.
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I’m not naming the library, because they were nothing but kind to me. But county commissioners explicitly told the library director that they would use any queer programming as an excuse to cut funding.
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🌈🚨 MILF BOOK COVER REVEAL 🚨🌈. MISTAKES WERE MADE publishes 10/11/22 and is available for preorder today! . Designer: Olga Grlic .Illustrator: Petra Braun. Macmillan: AMZ: Bookshop:
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In light of JKR being the Worst, I want to boost trans and nonbinary authors. Reply with buy links and goodreads pages so we can support your work!.
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my wife, telling me why we have to watch the ultimatum queer love: it’s important for queers to be allowed to be garbage ppl too.
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not sure what counts as viral but can confirm this tiktok literally tripled my sales last week. god bless ppl who talk about books they love 😍🌈
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a trans nonbinary olympian making the final and getting gendered correctly on primetime tv 🥹.
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I had big dreams of changing the landscape of publishing by writing f/f. If I am, it’s gradual. It’s slow erosion, not shifting plate tectonics.
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the thing is romance does love to describe men as big and manly in a way that, if we bothered to dig into it instead of get mad at anyone who even slightly criticizes the genre, we’d realize is rooted in sexism, transphobia, and fatphobia, all at once!.
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how are we supposed to go to work and meet deadlines and decide what to have for dinner when we are constantly reminded how many people in our country want to take away our rights.
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And I’ll keep being a trans nonbinary author writing love stories for queer women. This world isn’t going to turn on a dime and accept me and my books, but maybe it’ll be easier for the queer authors who come next.
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Ten years ago today, drunk and exhausted after my sister’s wedding, I sat down in the shower crying bc I couldn’t get all the pins out of my hair. A pretty girl, who I’d met in person for the first time the day before, sat next to me and silently began taking them out for me.
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This was going to be the first event I got paid for. As though trying to have a career as an author weren’t hard enough without losing income for being queer. 🙃. If you want to help, my local indie still has some signed copies available:.
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HI I’M WEEPING CLEAT CUTE IS A USA TODAY BESTSELLER.
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That’s how change happens, I know. But it doesn’t mean it’s not frustrating. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt to remember my books are not necessarily accepted, I am not necessarily accepted.
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Hard to explain how much this means to me. 🤩⚽️🌈❤️
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So I’ll keep calling them out. I’ll keep mentioning that queer books in general, and f/f specifically, don’t get equal support, especially if they’re not cis het palatable.
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This article is bad in a lot of ways but this is the worst
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It’s not fun to call out homophobia and transphobia. But nothing’s going to change if I ignore the problems.
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Mostly I surround myself by queer folk and ignore the rest of the world. If only it were that easy. It’s not an option when I’m trying to make a career writing f/f romance.
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f/f books have an audience and can sell if given support. and . f/f books you think are "everywhere" may not be doing as well as you think and still could use your vocal support. can both be true at the same time.
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Turns out SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT is in my local Target. I cried a little and then made my wife take pictures. 😭🥺😍
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Every so often a certain someone trends and I don't look up why but I do hype up books by trans and nonbinary authors. Drop your recs (including your own books!) in the replies!.
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🌈🚨📢 COVER REVEAL 📢🚨🌈. It’s here! It’s queer! It’s the cover for SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT! . Coming May 26, 2020—pre-order today! .
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MILF book is here! 🥳🔥🌈. MISTAKES WERE MADE is about a college senior who accidentally sleeps w/ her friend’s mom. Featuring: .💙💜💖 so many bisexuals .🔥🔥🔥 8.5 sex scenes.👅🦪🚿 cunnilingus in the shower.🥺❤️🥹 some tender feelings too, I guess .
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My wife says I have to post the earnest pic but I think the rest of them better convey my feelings about seeing my ARCs for the first time.
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SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT is finally here! 🥳🍾. This Hollywood slowburn is @BerkleyRomance's first queer female romance in print! 🌈❤️💎. AMZ: B&N: BS: IB: Kobo:
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🚨 WE HAVE A PUB DATE 🚨 . MISTAKES WERE MADE has . 🚫🧠 idiots to lovers.💖💜💙 useless bisexuals.👩👧 a MILF.🖼 amazing art by @RebeccaPodos . and it comes out OCTOBER 11, 2022!
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i do a lot of not writing for someone who wants to be a full time writer.
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a tired bisexual’s concept: just block the people with the biphobic takes and move on instead of having the same conversation we had last month and the month before and the month before and.
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In December, I scheduled top surgery for May 4. I’ve been planning my life around the date. Tonight, the surgery got canceled, 8.5 hours before I was due to check in. We’ll reschedule and it’ll be fine. I’m just really sad right now.
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ladies, is it gay to write numerous songs named after women?.
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I am so exhausted by cisheteronormativity within the romance community.
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Rather than criticizing an individual’s choice on how much of their identity to publicly share, we should be focusing on publishing’s tendency to favor writers who are or appear to be cis het.
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just watched twilight for the first time and not joking i finally understand why everyone is obsessed with this movie.
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all my friends are hot and most of them are queer and i’m just saying these facts are probably related.
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Do you ever watch a movie you remember *loving* when you were younger, only to learn it turns out you were just a baby queer, unknowingly in love with the lead actress, and the movie itself is actually bad?.
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In CLEAT CUTE you’ll find everything great about women’s soccer:. 🔥 Hot women.⚽️ Talented women.⚠️ A yellow card for tackling someone who was a bitch to your teammate.🏳️🌈 Out lesbians.🤫 Lesbians who don’t think their sexuality is any of your business
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Happy second birthday to MISTAKES WERE MADE! 🎉 . Also happy coming out day to my bi-for-bi book that ppl still call a lesbian romance 🥴
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My wife surprised me with some new wall art today 🥰🌈📚
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There’s also this, because apparently being a woman in a long term monogamous relationship with another woman isn’t queer enough?
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why do things you need to talk to your therapist about always happen the day after therapy.
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how do you refill your well when your job empties it every single day.
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the thing about the tom holland umbrella video is you need the whole clip where at first you think he’s gonna lip sync to “singing in the rain” and you’re like “oh that’s kind of boring but okay” and then he goes off.
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Okay tbf they probably don’t have this many signed copies available 😂.
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I was trying to finish my revisions before announcing, but I’m too excited: I’m now repped by @whimsicallyours! ✨💯🌈 . Not to overdo it, but I’m honestly ecstatic to work with Patrice and bring y’all more queer idiots falling in love! 🤩🌈😍
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fyi mistakes were made did start as fanfic and i am not embarrassed about that! but something to talk about never was fanfic i’m just a slut for boss/assistant ships!!!.
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CLEAT CUTE, as told by comments from my copy editor
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@TimesNewRachel The way my wife laughs when she says something witty she knows I wasn’t expecting (it’s generally at my expense). She’s always so proud of herself. 🥰.
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truly cannot stand people who give you good ideas for revisions when they could've just let your book be not that good so you didn't have to do more work.
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A coworker once asked me if her husband could read my book and not be offended and when I was like ????? she explained “he’s homophobic.”. So no. He can’t read anything I write and not be offended. Not sorry.
Be so queer that they can't edit it out for bigoted markets.
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me: look how cute the cover is! the colors! their little faces! “a novel” on the sock! . y’all horndogs: THIGHS 👀🤤.
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just a trans nonbinary bisexual here to remind you on this fine #BiVisibilityDay that bisexuality neither enforces the gender binary nor excludes trans ppl 💁🏼.
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I am beyond thrilled to announce I am now repped by @Devyross from @NewLeafLiterary! ✨🤩 There are too many people who helped get me here to thank them all, but a special shoutout to the whole #PitchWars team, the #slackers, and my mentor @FarahHeron.
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SEND HELP 😳😨😭😩.
There was a lot of shit things about 2020 but one thing that ended up being kinda awesome was how much time I had to read. There were stretches where I couldn’t read but then bouts where I read book after book gleefully. Here are some of my favorites.
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imagine stealing a supreme court seat and still losing this badly. six to fucking three!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules gay and lesbian people can sue for workplace bias under landmark civil rights law.
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Well, it’s not like I was gonna say no when my wife suggested a photo shoot to commemorate signing the author-agency agreement 💁🏼♂️
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I don’t deserve gender affirming care bc I was “born this way.” I deserve gender affirming care bc I want it. I’m not hurting anyone by being myself, whether who I am is a choice or not.
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Beyoncé told me to quit my job and I said, “Yes, ma’am!” . In a little over a week, I get to leave a job I hate to work in the library instead!.
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It’s #TDOV, but more importantly: it’s Trans Day of Staying in & Having a Nice Snack. Trans folks: pls drop your venmo/etc in the replies to receive snack $$. Cis folks: distribute snack $$ thru the replies, &/or send it to me so I can do it for you . Venmo: Meryl-Wilsner.
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sometimes i think about writing another age gap milf book but making the milf the younger one….
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My first pride recovered from top surgery, I’ve moved from a fully-buttoned-up-shirt queer to a as-many-buttons-undone-as-is-socially-acceptable queer
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The news is out! So thrilled to be working with @KristineESwartz and @BerkleyRomance. And I can't wait for the rest of you to meet Jo and Emma in June 2020!.
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the romance genre has a gender essentialism problem.
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The PM announcement for CLEAT CUTE has some fun MISTAKES WERE MADE news, too! 🇬🇧
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Have fun watching the #uswnt win the Olympic gold? . Enjoy more women’s soccer, lesbian hijinks, and happy endings with CLEAT CUTE! ⚽️🇺🇸❤️
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I know we’re all mad about things that don’t look like cake being cake, but I can confirm this is much worse
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Men don’t have music with their floor routines???? Make them dance!!!!!.
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Stop doomscrolling. Take a deep breath. Drink some water. Fight like hell.
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My book got mentioned in the New York Times! But honestly what’s even more exciting is how many of my friends’ books are in this article, too!!! 🤩🥳🥺🥰🏳️🌈.
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imagine if we as a community put half the energy we put into outrage into tackling the heteronormativity, transphobia, fatphobia, ableism, racism, etc of the genre.
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As far as election distractions go, she’s the best. Everybody, meet Nora.
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one of my best friend’s is fucking my mom :(.
pitch your book BUT NOT from the protagonist’s pov. Any other perspective. Just not the protagonist 👀♥️.
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