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Alex London, writer person

@alex--london / alex--london.tumblr.com

I wrote PROXY and BLACK WINGS BEATING and DOG TAGS, and some 39 CLUES books, and some other stuff. My newest, BATTLE DRAGONS, is like How to Train Your Dragon meets The Fast and the Furious. http://www.calexanderlondon.com/
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Proxy by Alex london

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Amazing book, brought me to literal tears at the ending (not gonna spoil.. but I cried for like many an hour idk I didn't count but I cried a lot.. couldn't stop.)

Tags: LGBT (mxm focus), dystopian society, sci-fi, futuristic society, debts, unfair system, wealth disparity (rich vs poor), "two cities", a future with no forests (ruined earth), childhood trauma (aka a bad father).

Nothing more cuz it's gonna spoil ya

100000000% RECCOMEND HOLYYY, LOVED THIS SM!!!

especially those flirting moments.. arrghrhrhh it's just butterflies

Anonymous asked:

Hey hi!! Hope you’re doing well! I met you and got signed copies of both proxy and guardian when I was in middle school. It was too gay for my little conservative, christian heart back in the day but now I’m a trans adult and I just read proxy in full for the first time and it broke me in the best way possible.

Great story and it will always hold a special place in my heart for how it waited for me. I grew into the person I needed to be to properly appreciate it, and it was so patient with and kind to me. It took me a long time to come back to it, but it was ready for me, waiting with open arms.

Well now I'm crying. This is the nicest note to get from a reader and what a true statement about books. We don't have to read them all the moment they come out and sometimes we aren't ready to. I am so glad you stuck around to give it a chance!

Thank you thank you thank you for coming back to my book, thank you for letting in to your heart, and thank you for letting me know about the experience. I often get sad that this book I love is fading into oblivion in a crowded book market after a decade and then a note like yours arrives. You have no idea (or maybe you do?) how much you have made my day.

Thank you for your kindness and for being you.

And thanks for reading.

#proxy novel#proxy#reader letter

So I started writing this interactive story on Storyloom. It's free to play though you have to make a (free) account. In it, you get to be the producer of a local news broadcast for the day, deciding which stories to cover and how. Maybe it's fun? Play if you're interested! I'd appreciate it.

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nar1an asked:

not an ask, but i want you to know that i met you back when i was in high school where you gave me a signed copy of black wings beating and it's genuinely one of my most prized possessions. it's also one of my best memories from high school and it got me through such a rough time of my life. so i guess, thank you for that ! you're also one of the reasons i got back into writing after all this time, im even starting work on my first graphic novel soon, hopefully !! T-T so, yeah again, thank you for that, it literally meant the world to me !

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Well this just made my day! Thank you so much for letting me know my work was helpful to you and that you made it through High School okay.

And I'm so excited for you and your own writing. Working on my first graphic novel myself too, so I guess we're colleagues now! Hooray!

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Change Is Not Collapse: Alex London’s Gold Wings Rising
Which came first, the falcon or the egg? It doesn’t matter in the end. They will keep creating each other until they go extinct—or they evolve into something new. Gold Wings Rising wraps up Alex L…
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“Throughout terrifying twists and breathtaking action, as a queer reader, I always felt safe within these pages. It’s not only the interpersonal dynamics that read queer, but the story arc, the resolution itself.” 

Excuse me I’ll just be over here crying grateful tears forever. This critic ‘got’ me and exactly what I was trying to do. It’s a rare thing as a writer to feel so fully understood by a review (in a good way…I’ve definitely had reviews that clearly understood every flaw in my work and myself…) 

I LOVE this series, and I can’t wait to read the 3rd book!!! Truly spectacular world-building and, as the above reviewer noted, full of wonderful, queer characters.

Schooled

My 4 year old, who watches The Magic School Bus: Did you know trees can talk?

Me, humoring her: Oh? What do they talk about? How they wish they had legs so could ‘leave’?

My 4 year old, incredulous and also not getting my dad joke: NO! In real life! They Underground with their roots!

And then she lectured me about the fungal network and how trees sometimes also use scents in the air to ward off predatory insects. 

Just saying, Ms. Frizzle in a real one.

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#Magic School Bus#mycorrhizal network
Anonymous asked:

I just want you to know that every time I walk into a bookstore I look to see if they have Proxy. Sad to report I haven’t seen it in a while. I want other people to have the chance to read Proxy and fall in love with it like I did. I’m sad it’s not in stores near me anymore. But I guess this is proof your writing left a lifelong imprint on my heart... Thank you for that. Really.

This is really moving that you do that, whoever you are, anon. I don't often see it in stores anymore either (yeah, I check too), which is a real bummer tbh. It definitely knocks me back.I wish more stores kept it on the shelves for new readers to discover, but that's not in my control. Alas.

I'm truly grateful for the impact the book made, though, on individual readers and on helping make space for more queer YA SFF literature on those shelves. There's great stuff coming out today that is finding its readership (and staying in stock at stores!) and it feels good to know I helped open some of that shelf space.

I'm also glad the book stuck with you all these years. Thanks for keeping it in your heart. I keep it in mine too.

I have a new book

So for the like 3 of you still on here who’ve been my fans for all these year (thank you by the way...one good thing about not being a mega famous author is that I feel like I know you all and I’m really glad you still give a damn about my books), I have a new book coming out soon. It’s for younger readers, like 8-14 years old, but I’m 41 now and i like it. Maybe you will too. I hope so.

There are dragon battles, dragon thieves, dragon taxis and, drag(on) queens.

Check it out, maybe?

https://bookshop.org/books/city-of-thieves-battle-dragons-1/9781338716542

https://www.amazon.com/City-Thieves-Battle-Dragons-1/dp/1338716549 

https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/book/city-of-thieves-by-alex-london/

#new book#battle dragons#middle grade#dragon drag
Anonymous asked:

Just here to say how great the Skybound Saga is. It's exactly the kind of story I needed, queer characters but it would be the same if they weren't. It just made me feel so much better, I don't even know why.

Thank you. This means a lot to hear. Been feeling like this series had been largely ignored/forgotten, so I'm deeply grateful not only that it resonated with you, but that you took the time to let me know! Thanks. You really have made my day!

Anonymous asked:

Idk if you're gonna get this, i just wanted to tell you that the black wings beating series 1. Fucks and 2. Got me back into reading. Amazing 12/10

Thank you so much! I'm so thrilled my giant killer birds and messy queer teens could play a role in your reading life!

Anonymous asked:

I don’t know if you’ve read They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera, but I’m currently in the middle of it, and I’m finding myself sort of wishing that Rufus could meet Knox.

I feel like their interaction could either be amazing or all sorts of terrible. I’ve been thinking about it while reading so far, and wishing that I could mention it to somebody, and…apparently I’ve chosen Knox’s creator to mention this to.

Hope all is well with Knox and his life in your imagination. Give him our love from your his adoring public. ❤️

I love this! I have read TBDATE and I agree! I'll be sure to pass this message on to Adam S too! Thanks for reaching out and for giving a damn about Knox. I know he'd appreciate it. I certainly do.

#tbdate#proxynovel