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Tessa Barcelo
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🏳️‍🌈🫀📚 || she/they || fantasy writer & indie musician with a penchant for the dramatic || boston & bmore || AuDHD ✨
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hi! i’m tessa and i’m a fantasy writer and indie musician. here’s what’s not in my bio:

🪶 shakespeare nerd
🏎️ f1 enjoyer
🎭 theatre kid
🌎 the eiffel tower’s biggest fan
💐 lover of maps and flowers
🍁 mean bc i grew up in new england
💕 talk to me about queer rep in fantasy!!
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Wild to watch the regime's response to Charlie Kirk getting shot vs. its collective response that one time when 2 Minnesota lawmakers got shot and one of them died.
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is out now!!
I forgot this app exists for a while, but I’m releasing a song inspired by Shadow & Bone this week, and you can pre-save it now! snd.click/fqvs
Outlast (Cinematic Version) by Tessa Barcelo
Pre-save "Outlast (Cinematic Version)"
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December 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I forgot this app exists for a while, but I’m releasing a song inspired by Shadow & Bone this week, and you can pre-save it now! snd.click/fqvs
Outlast (Cinematic Version) by Tessa Barcelo
Pre-save "Outlast (Cinematic Version)"
snd.click
December 17, 2024 at 8:40 PM
After two whole years, I’m back in the querying trenches 🫣
November 29, 2024 at 11:10 PM
My new song “Villains” is out now with the Bookish Songs Collective’s Iron Flame inspired EP “Burn It Down.” Listen now! 🔥🐉 ffm.to/burnitdownep
Burn It Down EP
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November 22, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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At #NCTE24 this week, this is the message I'll be sharing on repeat.
November 20, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Gosh isn’t snow lovely.

Until it’s not, but you know what I mean!!
November 20, 2024 at 11:50 AM
name something more powerful than an ADHDer motivated by snack-based milestones
November 20, 2024 at 8:22 PM
a fun fact about me is that i technically lost a grammy nomination to taylor swift and i think that’s fun ✨
November 20, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Y'all gotta buy trans books. They're coming for these first and publishers will roll over UNLESS they think they'll lose money over it. Money is the only thing that speaks to CEOs. Show them trans books are worth fighting for in their terms
Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :)

Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)
November 19, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Snow day = stay at home and read a book day, no? ❄️
November 19, 2024 at 9:51 AM
“oh british weather won’t be *that* different from boston wea-“
*forgets that it’s entirely north of new england and now it gets dark at 4pm and it’s freezing*
November 20, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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Never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So never stop sharing books with kids. Never stop reading to them, and helping them to read. Never stop changing lives. #literacy #kidlit #books
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
do not tempt me waterstones, i had to stop myself from going in today 😭
If you find yourself wondering if a new book will solve all your problems today, the answer is yes
November 19, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 1:29 PM
hi! i’m tessa and i’m a fantasy writer and indie musician. here’s what’s not in my bio:

🪶 shakespeare nerd
🏎️ f1 enjoyer
🎭 theatre kid
🌎 the eiffel tower’s biggest fan
💐 lover of maps and flowers
🍁 mean bc i grew up in new england
💕 talk to me about queer rep in fantasy!!
November 19, 2024 at 12:19 PM
at this rate i’m collecting short form social apps like pokémon… hello people of blue sky!
November 19, 2024 at 12:10 PM