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jonny garza villa
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award winning author of FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES FROM THE SUN, ANDER & SANTI WERE HERE, and CANTO CONTIGO ✌🏽🇲🇽 up next: FUTBOLISTA (04.15.2025) and THIS IS HOW WE ROLL (fall 2025)
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barely on here but anyways most of my free time lately has been spent 💨🥬🤪-ing and playing Baldur’s Gate 3, so have some screenshots of my half-elf College of Swords Bard named Lindelin 🖤 in my head, pre-worm-thing he invented rock music and had a band named The Booming Blades
this one is Lindelin but also Astarion right before they gay kiss 😌 tbh I started this run planning on romancing Wyll but then all of us a sudden I’m bonking a vampire so I said, sure let’s go with this now I guess
August 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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some futbolistas 💙⚽️
a page from FUTBOLISTA by Jonny Garza Villa, the beginning of chapter 11, page 92. the blue being referenced here is the “bold blue Islander Soccer tees” all four of these freshmen soccer players are wearing because they all share the same brain cell.
May 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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the audiobook for FUTBOLISTA is out now! 💙✌🏽

🔗: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
April 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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the aforementioned stickers—
April 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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FUTBOLISTA—my first new adult, college romance with all the bisexual, soccer, philosophy, South Texas, horny vibes—is out TOMORROW ‼️💙

if you’re in San Antonio, Austin, Brownsville/the RGV, or Houston, come hang out this week! we’re taking Texas for the queers ✌🏽and we’ll have stickers!
“NOWHERE BOOKSHOP PRESENTS JONNY GARZA VILLA; TUESDAY, APRIL 15 at 6PM” an aqua blue background with soccer balls, an image of Jonny of the Futbolista book cover. “LITTLE GAY AUTHOR TALK: JONNY GARZA VILLA MODERATED BY AARON H ACEVES; THURSDAY, APRIL 17 AT 7PM AT THE LITTLE GAY SHOP” (Austin) a pink background with Jonny’s image and the Futbolista book cover. “JONNY GARZA VILLA IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID BOWLES AT BÚHO; FRIDAY, APRIL 18 AT 7:00PM” a red background with Jonny and Futbolista’s cover image in a purple border. “APRIL 19, 5:00PM CT AT BLUE WILL BOOKSHOP: JONNY GARZA VILLA IN CONVERSATION WITH TORIE JEAN; RSVP FREE TO ATTEND AND ORSER YOUR BOOK AT BLUE WILLOW BOOKSHOP DOT COM.” aqua/teal-ish background with Jonny and Futbolista’s image and Blue Willow’s logo at bottom right corner.
April 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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happy aries season to my non-binary gremlin aries sun Ander Martinez 🤎 I’m sure wherever they are they’re making it everyone’s problem

and so much gratitude to everyone who’s read ANDER & SANTI WERE HERE, who keeps them and Santi alive in your heart and on your shelves. read queer, Latine lit ✌🏽🏳️‍⚧️
lotería card inspired art of Ander Martínez from ANDER & SANTI WERE HERE by @mmarsloud. they are wearing a cropped white tee with CHICANE printed repeatedly down the front in a plastic bag inspired fashion with all but one in red outline and a single one in bold red. they are wearing a military green jacket and shorts with an inseam as close to zero as possible. they are holding a can of spray paint. they are standing in front of a yellow wall with various little painted moments like cacti and light yellow beams, almost religious looking in nature. on the top left is the number four and at the bottom is LE MURALISTA.
March 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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in FUTBOLISTA, it is, without question, Orlando Pérez, one of Gabi’s teammates and roommates and maybe the most chaotic good character I’ve ever written (heavy on the chaotic).

and, who knows, maybe his turn to be the lead isn’t too far off? 👀
January 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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ALEXA PLAY EL SON DE LA NEGRA WE JUST WON THE STONEWALL AWARD
image from the YMAs, a powerpoint showing Stonewall Young Adult Literature Award at top left and, underneath Canto Contigo, written by Jonny Garza Villa, published by a publisher that, try as hard as they might to make this book flop, could not take away everything good and queer and Mexican I put into this story because it is now an AWARD WINNING BOOK. and then to the right we have the cover of Canto Contigo with the Stonewall Book Award seal on its lower left.
January 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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we got signed preorders for FUTBOLISTA up and running with my fave local indie Nowhere Bookshop!

🔗: www.nowherebookshop.com/futbolista-p...
the cover of FUTBOLISTA with a purple background speckled with light blue. at the top right in red and blue bold font is “SIGNED & PERSONALIZED” and at bottom left “LINK IN BIO”
January 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Year of the Futbolista 💙⚽️
January 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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birthday party (aka Night of a Thousand Fieris) tonight 🔥🕶️
flag with an hombre yellow/orange background, Guy Fieri in his iconic sunglasses and flame bowler shirt combo, and the word FLAVORTOWN in all caps and in flames.
December 20, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa—
December 20, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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birthday week incoming
December 14, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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a few of mine—

Celestial Monsters x Aiden Thomas
Promises of Gold x José Olivarez
Saints of the Houshold x Ari Tison
Sons of El Rey x Alex Espinoza
December 13, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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let me make Blue Beetle so Texan and so queer plssss
December 7, 2024 at 7:07 AM
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me six years ago: oh no what if I end up only writing characters with curly black hair like what if I can’t imagine any other character what if that becomes the token JGV descriptor

the buzzcut: hold my beer

(art by @mmarsloud.bsky.social)
Santi and Ander from ANDER & SANTI WERE HERE. notably, Santi has a buzzcut hair style. Rey and Rafie from CANTO CONTIGO. Rafie’s got a buzzcut going on. Gabi and Vale from FUTBOLISTA. if you guessed Gabi’s got a buzzcut, you’d be correct.
December 6, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Bad Bunny has been my Spotify Wrapped’s top artist for YEARS and it is both with a heavy heart and an extremely gay soul that I announce it looks like we’re officially in my Omar Era 💙 anyways stream “Drifting,” putxs
December 4, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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you can get half off your preorder of FUTBOLISTA right now when you get it through the Levine Querido website with code LOVELQ, works for both paperback and hardcover 💙

🔗: www.levinequerido.com/futbolista
December 1, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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a few moments from the science museum with some of my favorite creatures
November 25, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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what it feels like entering Sagittarius season in 2025
a depressed looking person dressed in a yellow Tellytubbie (sp?) costume drinking alcohol straight from the bottle alone in a shower
November 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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I want these two to be boyfriends
Ekko and the hot Vastayan from Arcane
November 21, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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felt like I couldn’t fully and officially embrace a presence here until I posted an aesthetic-y collage, so here’s one for FUTBOLISTA’s main character, Gabi Piña 💙🍍⚽️
a collage with vibes for Futbolista’s main character, Gabi Piña, including photographs of a football (soccer) goalpost, Texas A&M Corpus Christi (Home of the Islanders) campus, a cement and rock wall/rock path jutting into the gulf, a bisexual flag, cleat-ed feat and a soccer ball, and a visual reference for the character.
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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four books to get to know me—
Bless Me, Última by Rudolfo Anaya Simón Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram Sons of El Rey by Alex Espinoza
November 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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two chapters and an epilogue left.
August 31, 2023 at 6:48 AM
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okay but kinda about to figure out a book idea just to facecast the main character and love interest as these two
August 29, 2023 at 2:58 AM