Mr. Troy Ford
@mrtroyfordauthor.bsky.social
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 🩵🖤❤️
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Thanks to davidwojo.com for the book cover of my dreams 🩵🖤❤️
Creating Anna Madrigal - Part 2 armisteadmaupin.substack.com/p/creating-a...
Creating Anna Madrigal - Part 2
In this second episode, Armistead shares how his English grandmother informed the spirit of Anna Madrigal — a woman whose warmth, humor, and gentle wisdom shaped both his life and his fiction.
armisteadmaupin.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Creating Anna Madrigal - Part 2 armisteadmaupin.substack.com/p/creating-a...
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/
With Bobby Smith
thisqueerbook.com/coming-out/
November 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This Queer Book Saved My Life - Coming Out by Wallace Hamilton from 1977
With Bobby Smith
thisqueerbook.com/coming-out/
With Bobby Smith
thisqueerbook.com/coming-out/
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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
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
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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.
dl.bookfunnel.com/ymh672txav
dl.bookfunnel.com/ymh672txav
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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.
dl.bookfunnel.com/ymh672txav
dl.bookfunnel.com/ymh672txav
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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...
#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
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...
#lgbtqia #lgbtq #gay #humor #substackwriters #writersofbluesky
open.substack.com/pub/brandone...
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…
troyfordauthor.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 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)
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
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.
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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!
come through!
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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!
come through!
This Queer Book Saved My Life: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
With Lauren Sanders, author of "Kamikaze Lust"
thisqueerbook.com/nightwood/
With Lauren Sanders, author of "Kamikaze Lust"
thisqueerbook.com/nightwood/
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This Queer Book Saved My Life: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
With Lauren Sanders, author of "Kamikaze Lust"
thisqueerbook.com/nightwood/
With Lauren Sanders, author of "Kamikaze Lust"
thisqueerbook.com/nightwood/
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...
Subscribe for free to follow along. 💚❤️🩵📚💚❤️🩵
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On Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...
Goodreads
See what your friends are reading
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November 18, 2025 at 5:16 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...
Subscribe for free to follow along. 💚❤️🩵📚💚❤️🩵
On Substack: troyford.substack.com/s/the-books-...
On Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...
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...
Ford Knows Books
troyford.substack.com/p/what-has-i...
November 17, 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...
Ford Knows Books
troyford.substack.com/p/what-has-i...
PINK FRIDAY SALE
LAMB: A novel in snapshots - ebook available for FREE on Amazon thru Friday
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z1N2HL
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
PINK FRIDAY SALE
LAMB: A novel in snapshots - ebook available for FREE on Amazon thru Friday
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z1N2HL
LAMB: A novel in snapshots - ebook available for FREE on Amazon thru Friday
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z1N2HL
November 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Currently Reading
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Currently Reading
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...
He's authorized this super cute picture...
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 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...
He's authorized this super cute picture...
Giveaway from Bargain Booksy - win a Kindle with 15 ebooks loaded on it, including Lamb!
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Literary Fiction eBook and Kindle Giveaway – November 1st 2025
Deals on Bestselling eBooks
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November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Giveaway from Bargain Booksy - win a Kindle with 15 ebooks loaded on it, including Lamb!
www.bargainbooksy.com/literary-fic...
www.bargainbooksy.com/literary-fic...
Howth Head near Dublin, Ireland - famous from "Ulysses" by James Joyce
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Howth Head near Dublin, Ireland - famous from "Ulysses" by James Joyce
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The witchy references in “Everybody Scream,” Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, feel particularly well suited to an album that charts the sacrifices that Florence Welch has made to have her work taken seriously, Grace Byron writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/E2vRoL
Florence Welch Learns How to Scream
On Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, Welch confronts real-life horror with gothic fury.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The witchy references in “Everybody Scream,” Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, feel particularly well suited to an album that charts the sacrifices that Florence Welch has made to have her work taken seriously, Grace Byron writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/E2vRoL
Michael Carroll on losing his husband Edmund White and writing through grief - from the Queer Love Project
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substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Michael Carroll on losing his husband Edmund White and writing through grief - from the Queer Love Project
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Vote Blue No Matter Who...🤔
We have become so accustomed to living with the far right, that there are Dems who will side with Trump instead of voting for a candidate whose policies are considered "centrist" in every other country on the planet.
We have become so accustomed to living with the far right, that there are Dems who will side with Trump instead of voting for a candidate whose policies are considered "centrist" in every other country on the planet.
Donald Trump just now posts a full-throated endorsement of Andrew Cuomo on TruthSocial: "Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job."
November 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Vote Blue No Matter Who...🤔
We have become so accustomed to living with the far right, that there are Dems who will side with Trump instead of voting for a candidate whose policies are considered "centrist" in every other country on the planet.
We have become so accustomed to living with the far right, that there are Dems who will side with Trump instead of voting for a candidate whose policies are considered "centrist" in every other country on the planet.
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I’ll be live on the @thegailyshow.org this afternoon talking about #indieanimation, Poison Us, and our fundraiser in Baltimore! Tune in at 3pm EST!
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I’ll be live on the @thegailyshow.org this afternoon talking about #indieanimation, Poison Us, and our fundraiser in Baltimore! Tune in at 3pm EST!