@aaronhaceves.bsky.social
He/him. Author of THIS IS WHY THEY HATE US. Latino. Aqueerius. Harvard '15. Columbia MFA '20. UT Austin Professor. #FreePalestine
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialThanks so much! You’re only like the second person to mention the excerpt lol
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialANNOUNCEMENT: I’m self-publishing my adult debut! It’s called Coming of Age, and you can help make it a reality/read an excerpt here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
@rasheed.bsky.socialReposted by @aaronhaceves.bsky.socialThese magnificent authors — Abdi Nazemian, Rex Ogle, @aaronhaceves.bsky.social, and C.B. Lee — shared their insights and experiences on a panel about #BannedBooks.
Thanks @penamerica.bsky.social for organizing and @vromansbookstore.bsky.social for hosting.
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialLA peeps! Signed copies at Vroman’s (in Pasadena)!
@usmantm.bsky.socialReposted by @aaronhaceves.bsky.socialElise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors.
Help if u can
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialOur rapist president said he’d be ok with my hometown being bombed. We all know why. While we wait for him to [redacted] you might wanna check out my love letter to (East) LA that features everything he and all his followers hate
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialI could show him this photo of 600 copies of my book about to be distributed to high school kids in my hometown *for free*. Morals over sales any day but sticking to my guns and still winning is just 👌🏼
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialI used to have a follower on Twitter who was a big fan of This Is Why They Hate Us until I bashed Israel which always surprised me because it’s unambiguously pro-Palestine, and before he blocked me, he said, “And to think I was going to teach your book in my class of 300 undergrads.” And I wish
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialSometimes you gotta write for yourself
@theurv.comReposted by @aaronhaceves.bsky.socialThere were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
@blowp0p.bsky.socialReposted by @aaronhaceves.bsky.socialI got to meet both @aaronhaceves.bsky.social and @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social at the LA Libros Festival at the LAPL and get them to sign their respective books.
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialToday I am at my most powerful because it’s Bi Visibility Day and Latine Heritage Month. Please consider picking up my novel This Is Why They Hate Us which is about a bi Latino teen trying to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else 🩷💜💙
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialThe “see attached” is referring to *10* pages *typed* of lines he found distasteful
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialIrish it did, but
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialSometimes I need to take a break from pitching my book, so I let other people do it. Here’s an extremely accurate and succinct summary of This Is Why They Hate Us from a grown man who tried to get it banned from his local library
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialI made tostones today and used a tequila bottle to smash em, happy Latine Heritage Month!
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialSometimes I need to take a break from pitching my book This Is Why They Hate Us, so I let other people do it (positive edition). Here’s an endorsement from the one and only Adam Silvera:
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialAw 💚
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialHonestly they ate with that
@aaronhaceves.bsky.socialSometimes I need to take a break from pitching my book This Is Why They Hate Us, so I let other people do it. Here’s an endorsement from a hater that I would love to quote on all future printings:
