J.J. Cross

Chapter 2 of our t4t dystopian romantasy Honor & Grace goes live tonight at 5pm PST!

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This week Joanna interviews Jack about his solo serial Honor & Grace — a t4t romantasy and dystopian fable. We get into:

✦ Why the book opens with a powdered-wig despot eating a child for dinner ✦ What the red/blue/yellow stained-glass triptych behind the Patriarch's desk is doing in the world's theology ✦ Why Heartbreaking — the Regime's ritual of breaking children and extracting their souls — is a direct allegory for the conversion practices Jack survived ✦ The painting principle of contrast — paint the darkness, and the love shines all the brighter ✦ Why this story has to be t4t, and what trans love really means

Read Honor & Grace on Substack — new chapters every Sunday at 7pm PT. The Prologue is live now.

Content note: this episode discusses conversion therapy.

The first look at Chapter 2 of our serial Big Mountain: a class-disparity modern gothic. Full chapter drops tomorrow @ 7pm PST

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The first episode of our new podcast is live on YouTube and Substack!

In this first episode, we introduce Big Mountain, a class-disparity gothic set at the most ostentatious ski resort in rural Montana. Eight unreliable narrators. One week. One avalanche. We talk about the image we couldn't let go (a gay p*rn star flown in by helicopter, dining on prime rib in a chalet), what we're trying to do that The White Lotus and Parasite didn't, why this story has to be in Montana, the gothic weight of the mountain itself, how the two of us write together — and what we mean when we say a class-disparity gothic always has queerness at its core.

The first look at the opening of our upcoming serial Honor & Grace: a dystopian t4t romantasy epic.

Full chapter drops tomorrow at 7pm PST

The cold open of our class-disparity gothic serial Big Mountain is live now on our Substack.

Read it now and follow along for more chapters, dropping every week on Wednesday, 7pm PST

The first look at the cold open of our upcoming serial Big Mountain: a class-disparity modern gothic.

Full chapter drops tomorrow @ 7pm PST

Subscribe for free to read more:

Two trans writers. One byline. Two novels dropping weekly. Jack Danger and AYOHWIN — a queer married writing duo serializing original fiction on Substack.

We're starting two novels this week. They're very different books, made by the same hands.

Big Mountain — Wednesdays at 7pm PT. A psychological gothic at a Montana ski resort. Eight unreliable narrators, one week, one avalanche. A contracting magnate built the lodge and cut corners on every wall, every window, every phase of site testing. The rich don't think anything's coming for them. The mountain has been waiting.

In the lane of The White Lotus and Parasite. Class disparity in its bones.

Honor & Grace — Sundays at 7pm PT. A t4t romantasy and dystopian fable. Two trans protagonists. An empire that eats its workers. A love that breaks the wheel.

In the lane of The Locked Tomb and The Handmaid's Tale. Dark, literary, sharp, tender, and explicit when it earns it.

Why subscribe? Serialized fiction works best when it lands in your inbox once a week and pulls you forward, chapter by chapter. Two writers, one byline, means you're getting two voices threading one signature. Both stories are about people who shouldn't survive what they're surviving — and we want you in the room when they do.

Subscribe to one serial or both. They're separate Sections on the publication — pick what you want in your inbox. First chapters drop this week.

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