Elle Grenier
@elleoftheball.bsky.social
Author of THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY (Feiwel & Friends/Titan Books, February 2026). Mellow Dramatic. French Canadian. The world’s top Cats (2019) enthusiast. || She/they
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THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY just received its first trade review from Kirkus!!! 🪞
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY is a YA historical gothic with paranormal, psychological, and romance elements, releasing February 17th.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY is a YA historical gothic with paranormal, psychological, and romance elements, releasing February 17th.
Me: sweetheart, do you think I’m annoying?
Wife: you’re just a former theatre kid, darling
Wife: you’re just a former theatre kid, darling
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Me: sweetheart, do you think I’m annoying?
Wife: you’re just a former theatre kid, darling
Wife: you’re just a former theatre kid, darling
If someone told me last year I’d finish this Christmas night crying over those gay hockey boys I would be stunned but also delighted
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
If someone told me last year I’d finish this Christmas night crying over those gay hockey boys I would be stunned but also delighted
We should bring back “wherewithal”. What a good word
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
We should bring back “wherewithal”. What a good word
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Feel like I haven’t seen people commenting on this anywhere near enough tbh
“Would you accept conservative floor-crossers with these common stances” isn’t a hypothetical when you’re pursuing a majority via floor-crossings. Refusing to say “no” here is the same as a yes.
“Would you accept conservative floor-crossers with these common stances” isn’t a hypothetical when you’re pursuing a majority via floor-crossings. Refusing to say “no” here is the same as a yes.
December 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Feel like I haven’t seen people commenting on this anywhere near enough tbh
“Would you accept conservative floor-crossers with these common stances” isn’t a hypothetical when you’re pursuing a majority via floor-crossings. Refusing to say “no” here is the same as a yes.
“Would you accept conservative floor-crossers with these common stances” isn’t a hypothetical when you’re pursuing a majority via floor-crossings. Refusing to say “no” here is the same as a yes.
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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2026
I, in the Shadows by Tori Bovalino (January 13th) Maybe this is possession; maybe this is truly what it is to be haunted. There’s a ghost hanging out in Drew Larpin’s new room. He’s a fellow Pine Hollow high schooler named Liam, and…
I, in the Shadows by Tori Bovalino (January 13th) Maybe this is possession; maybe this is truly what it is to be haunted. There’s a ghost hanging out in Drew Larpin’s new room. He’s a fellow Pine Hollow high schooler named Liam, and…
Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2026
I, in the Shadows by Tori Bovalino (January 13th) Maybe this is possession; maybe this is truly what it is to be haunted. There’s a ghost hanging out in Drew Larpin’s new room. He’s a fellow Pine Hollow high schooler named Liam, and technically, it’s his old room. Now he’s stuck haunting it―unsure of how he died or why he hasn’t moved on to the afterlife.
lgbtqreads.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2026
I, in the Shadows by Tori Bovalino (January 13th) Maybe this is possession; maybe this is truly what it is to be haunted. There’s a ghost hanging out in Drew Larpin’s new room. He’s a fellow Pine Hollow high schooler named Liam, and…
I, in the Shadows by Tori Bovalino (January 13th) Maybe this is possession; maybe this is truly what it is to be haunted. There’s a ghost hanging out in Drew Larpin’s new room. He’s a fellow Pine Hollow high schooler named Liam, and…
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My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
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i hate self promotion but hey you should buy ONE OF THE BOYS, my book about a trans girl who kicks footballs between 2 sticks, for the teen/queer/ball knower/literature enjoyer/some combination of the above in your life. victoria.monster/#straightcashhomie has the links. okay thank you merry xmas
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
i hate self promotion but hey you should buy ONE OF THE BOYS, my book about a trans girl who kicks footballs between 2 sticks, for the teen/queer/ball knower/literature enjoyer/some combination of the above in your life. victoria.monster/#straightcashhomie has the links. okay thank you merry xmas
Time to write publishers who do this shit DEEPLY minute, annoying, and condescending correction letters for every ai slop translation until they get fed up of receiving them and give in
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Time to write publishers who do this shit DEEPLY minute, annoying, and condescending correction letters for every ai slop translation until they get fed up of receiving them and give in
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Reminder Canadians: PP has promised to have Canada do to trans Canadians what America is doing to trans Americans. So if you are horrified, you dont get to be smug and you need to make sure he never becomes PM. We are literally always one election away
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reminder Canadians: PP has promised to have Canada do to trans Canadians what America is doing to trans Americans. So if you are horrified, you dont get to be smug and you need to make sure he never becomes PM. We are literally always one election away
Honk shoo-a, sleep on that thing
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Honk shoo-a, sleep on that thing
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the brightest version of the future has you in it, thriving, existing as who you want to be. Let the adults fight for that world - what we need is for you to survive to live in it
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
the brightest version of the future has you in it, thriving, existing as who you want to be. Let the adults fight for that world - what we need is for you to survive to live in it
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My interview about wrapping up the Climate Emergency Unit:
Lessons From a Five-Year Effort to Shift Canada Into Climate Emergency Mode www.theenergymix.com/qa-lessons-f...
Lessons From a Five-Year Effort to Shift Canada Into Climate Emergency Mode www.theenergymix.com/qa-lessons-f...
Q&A: Lessons From a Five-Year Effort to Shift Canada Into Climate Emergency Mode
As the Climate Emergency Unit ends its five-year mandate, founder Seth Klein reflects in an interview with The Energy Mix on the project’s ambitions, its impact on Canada’s climate movement, and what ...
www.theenergymix.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My interview about wrapping up the Climate Emergency Unit:
Lessons From a Five-Year Effort to Shift Canada Into Climate Emergency Mode www.theenergymix.com/qa-lessons-f...
Lessons From a Five-Year Effort to Shift Canada Into Climate Emergency Mode www.theenergymix.com/qa-lessons-f...
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Required reading tbh
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
An autobiographical essay about anti-trans child conversion therapy and the place of queer children under patriarchy.
open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...
open.substack.com/pub/dolphind...
December 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Required reading tbh
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
What I would give to have THIS detransitioner's story blasted across all the media, with its author earning six figures for telling it to everyone, instead of the anti-trans grifters
This author needs to put her GoFundMe at the bottom
(Go pay her for her work!)
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Today House Republicans voted 216-211 to pass MTG’s bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, marking the first time a national ban on care for trans youth has reached — and passed — the House floor.
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Bill Punishing Doctors And Parents Clears House Floor
If passed, the bill would punish doctors and parents who provide or consent to a minor receiving gender-affirming care.
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This framing is dishonest. It was a bipartisan bill. Enough Republicans actually defected and voted no to kill the bill. Three Democrats crossed over to save it.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
They should be stripped of their committee assignments and thrown out of the party, quite frankly.
Okay so turning each act of Wicked into its own movie didn’t work out BUT I think we should consider trying it for Into the Woods and see if it gives a good adaptation this time
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Okay so turning each act of Wicked into its own movie didn’t work out BUT I think we should consider trying it for Into the Woods and see if it gives a good adaptation this time
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#OnThisDay in 1775, Jane Austen was born!
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
#OnThisDay in 1775, Jane Austen was born!
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
Most Ardently by @thegabecole.bsky.social is a Pride & Prejudice remix following a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of subverting society’s patriarchal expectations. bit.ly/48CE99a
#janeausten
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If I were a flintstone
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
December 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If I were a flintstone
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo
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I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
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Just got this from the Canadian government:
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Just got this from the Canadian government:
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
“While Global Affairs Canada regrets the decision, the group was travelling independently and was not representing the Government of Canada.”
Israeli officials ASSAULTED a Canadian member of Parliament!!
Where is the backbone????
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Absolutely shameful, also absolutely predictable.
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
Israel denies 6 MPs entry into West Bank for 'security reasons' | CBC News
A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six MPs, was denied entry into the West Bank early Tuesday.
dub.sh
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Absolutely shameful, also absolutely predictable.
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
Israel acts with violence and impunity towards Canadian MPs?
The Carney government should impose immediate diplomatic & economic consequences.
This appalling treatment cannot be met by mushy words that ultimately amount to capitulation.
dub.sh/wb
I’m still pretty early into the book I’m drafting but boy is it fun writing a character who thinks they’ve mastered weaponizing therapy speech for masking purposes
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
December 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I’m still pretty early into the book I’m drafting but boy is it fun writing a character who thinks they’ve mastered weaponizing therapy speech for masking purposes
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
(Narrator: they had not, in fact, mastered this skill in the slightest)
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dont worry about your unfinished business. we'll fix it in ghost
December 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
dont worry about your unfinished business. we'll fix it in ghost
The fair friar fries air fryer fries
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The fair friar fries air fryer fries