AJ West Author

Manchester: join me on my UK tour! Linktr.ee/ajwest Did you know... A queer bookshop invented Pride. A lesbian bookseller outwitted the Nazis. The first Amazon bookseller was owned by Lesbians. Gay bookstore owners freed the literary world from obscenity laws.

THE UK BOOK BLOGGER AWARDS 2025 NOMINATIONS ARE LIVE! Vote now for the best and brightest bookish influencers in the UK. Nominate your friends and favourites now ⬇️ The awards will be held in the Manchester snow dome Nov 15! Linktr.ee/thebookparty

Oops! Harrogate 25 not 26...🤦‍♂️😆 as ever, touring brilliant indie bookshops around the UK has sent me completely mad with exhausted contentment, and my second visit to this unique festival was every bit as brilliant as last year.

It's. All. About. The. Bloggers. 🥂 Great to talk to @thejeremyvine.bsky.social about #ThomasTrue AND @thebookparty.bsky.social this week! @orendabooks.bsky.social

Best to be honest about these things... 😉🦚💜 linktr.ee/ajwest

I didn't realise the talkies were quite so frank, did you? research for novel three going well.

I do think it's fun to ask surprising questions in author interviews, so long as everyone's happy. It makes the 45 minutes whisk by as we get to see them - and their work - from new angles. James Cahill at @hatchards.bsky.social Piccadilly was utterly brilliant. @orendabooks.bsky.social

With things as they are in my beloved USA atm with book bans, I feel so very proud that my historical novel about queer liberation #ThomasTrue is in bookstores right across the United States. @barnesandnoble.com Manhattan.🗽

300 years ago, founding father Benjamin Franklin sailed to Britain to become a printer's apprentice in the converted Lady Chapel of StBartholomews Church. I went to see a replica of the printing press the intrepid teenager would have used in that very room. Chills!

On ITV News singing the praises of indie bookstores. Where would I be without them as an author? Answer:

And there it is on the website! Crazy times. www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals?... @orendabooks