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Mr. Troy Ford
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Author, Exile & Kook - Substack: Ford Knows Books 💜🎩🐈‍⬛ https://troyford.substack.com/ - Qstack 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://qstack.substack.com/ - "Lamb: A novel in snapshots" available now - Associate Producer: This Queer Book Saved My Life @thisqueerbook.com
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"Lamb" the novel now available for pre-order on Kindle
www.amazon.com/Lamb-novel-s...
Thanks to davidwojo.com for the book cover of my dreams 🩵🖤❤️
Currently Reading
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Currently Reading (Can't wait to watch the movie!)

A recommendation from @armisteadmaupin.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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@mrtroyfordauthor.bsky.social shares his 1st novel Lamb. We discuss the series in a boarding school in the 90s, casting an unnamed narrator as a main character, and touch on the newsletters and substack he runs for you, the readers and writers. buff.ly/Ozeo6vK #booktalk #gay #fiction #comingofage
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Troy Ford | WROTE Podcast

Many thanks to Vance Bastian and Baz Collins for featuring me on WRitten On The Edge podcast!

bsky.app/profile/wrot... vancebastian.bsky.social sacollins.bsky.social

www.wrotepodcast.com/troy-ford/
Troy Ford
December 5, 2025 It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 487: Troy Ford! Troy Ford shares his first novel Lamb. We discuss placing a series in a boarding school in the 90s, casting…
www.wrotepodcast.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A remarkable tale (with stellar audio production values!)

The Disorientation of Survival – Part I – Everything Is Stories www.everythingisstories.com/portfolio-au...

@markolmsted.bsky.social - Photo by Clarke Tolton.
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This AIDS Dinosaur Shakes His Fist—With Understanding queerloveproject.substack.com/p/aids-dinos...
This AIDS Dinosaur Shakes His Fist—With Understanding
As a survivor of the epidemic, here’s some hard-earned wisdom from your elder.
queerloveproject.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This Queer Book Saved My Life - Coming Out by Wallace Hamilton from 1977
With Bobby Smith

thisqueerbook.com/coming-out/
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it started with style--with a dramatized adaptation of Brave New World, narrated by A...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I’m so grateful to Hotch Potch for the Pushcart nomination, and especially to Gail for the editorial assistance! You can read Making Étouffée here in Vol 3, Issue 2.

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November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Here's a video of my conversation with @geraldsturgill.bsky.social and @henrikthewriter.bsky.social. We're from different areas talking about gay stuff.
#lgbtqia #lgbtq #gay #humor #substackwriters #writersofbluesky
open.substack.com/pub/brandone...
3 Gay Writers "Meet and Greet"
A recording from Brandon Ellrich's live video
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Thanks (and Congratulations) to Meg Oolders, author of “See Dot Smile”, for inviting me on her Talk Fiction podcast (and getting a publishing deal)
Thanks (and Congratulations) to Meg Oolders, author of “See Dot Smile”, for inviting me on her Talk Fiction podcast (and getting a publishing deal)
Can’t say enough good things about Meg Oolders, a longtime hero of Substack fiction, and host of the Talk Fiction podcast on her newsletter, Beautiful Daring Stupid. She recently got a publis…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
PINK FRIDAY - "Lamb" is a #1 Amazon Best Seller today! 🥳🩷🎉

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z1N2HL
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Join me, @brandonellrich.substack.com and @henrikthewriter.bsky.social on Substack today for a fun live we've been planning for weeks. See you later.
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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bay area folx // this saturday i'll be offering affordable artworks & writing poems and stories on demand with my fellows at 2727 gallery //

come through!
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This Queer Book Saved My Life: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
With Lauren Sanders, author of "Kamikaze Lust"

thisqueerbook.com/nightwood/
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Check out The Books We ❤️ Club - Next up: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Subscribe for free to follow along. 💚❤️🩵📚💚❤️🩵

On Substack: troyford.substack.com/s/the-books-...
On Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What Has It Got In Its Pocketses? B-B-B-Bye-Bye. Take Us to Your Sofa.

Ford Knows Books
troyford.substack.com/p/what-has-i...
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
PINK FRIDAY SALE
LAMB: A novel in snapshots - ebook available for FREE on Amazon thru Friday

www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z1N2HL
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Queer Conflict by Pavini Moray - on Qstack 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩷🩵🤍

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November 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bubba's doing great with a new lower dosage of his chemo - big puppy energy (going on 10!) - eating, sleeping and pooping well, thank you very much - and still up for a romp down the hall after his ball or a few laps around the couch before his walkies.

He's authorized this super cute picture...
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM