Will Forrest, the writer

@willthewriter.bsky.social

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Purveyor of nonbinary finery & queer romances for wounded hearts. AuDHD šŸšŸ¦˜šŸ³ā€šŸŒˆšŸ‰ No Space For Hate find my books at willforrest.com

Promo graphic for Will Forrest's novel Author, Author. A photo of an old typewriter, zoomed in on the sheet of paper sticking out of the carriage, showing a quote from the book. "Living people kept on livingā€¦Kept on thinking about everything they might have done differently, every choice they wish they could make again. Life wasnā€™t a story, it was a strip of filmā€”single exposure, no edits. No mercy."
promo graphic for Will Forrest's next novel Author, Author: a Midcentury Gay Romance, showing the cover of the book and a list of the story tropes: 1950s NEW YORK BANNED BOOKS CELEBRITY CRUSH SUNSHINE/GRUMP PTSD & ANXIETY ā€œEVERYTHING FOR YOUā€ QUEER SIDE CHARACTERS
A red flag hangs from a gymnasium wall. It reads: we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy
meme comparing two images. On the left a house on fire, with the caption "the world" and on the right a sad emoji face and an image of a book cover with the caption "me: so anyway I wrote this book..."
Graphic for Will Forrest's books on Smashwords, to promote the Read an Ebook Week sale. A selection of Will's book covers are displayed on a subtle orange and gold background.
A photo of a gloomy graveyard. Black and pink hearts are scribbled in the corners of the image. The two-tone pink text reads: thorny roses broken hearts diamond tears deadly chocolates first date: getting lost in an enchanted hedge maze honeymoon destination: a windswept highland moor couple goals: buried in the same crypt #everydayishalloween
A promo graphic advertising Will Forrest's cozy shifter novella series Hollowood Falls.
A promo graphic for Will Forrest's upcoming novel titled Author, Author. The cover of the book is a black and white line illustration of the main characters Ben and Harlan, standing with their arms around each other. Behind them is the New York skyline. A red and pink heart floats behind them in the sky. Below the book is text that reads: April 23 2025
A screenshot of the Amazon sales rankings for Will Forrest's novel Trickle Down Theory. The book is number 8 on the Love Triangle Romance chart, number 20 on the Polyamorous Romance chart, and #28 in Gay Romance.
A promo graphic for the free ebook event Romance Book Blast. Over a background of pink and purple hearts, an image of a smartphone shows the event's homepage. Grey text bubbles float beside it, reading: 1000+ Romances - no sign ups, no commitments 12 categories, Sweet to Spicy, Contemporary to Fantasy and everything in between One day only - January 28th, 2025
a screenshot of an interaction on Threads. don_wyoming says "stahlp with the subsidies nonsense. Oil subsidies go to Mom & Pop oil companies so they can compete with big oil. They don't go to major oil companies." willforrestthewriter replies "lol sure. can we get some receipts on that?"
A screenshot of a computer desktop crammed with an unholy number of unsorted file thumbnails. Text on the lower right reads: we didn't come all this way just to come all this way.
A still frame of the character Mentok the Mindtaker from the Adult Swim program Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Mentok, a green skinned man with pointed ears, dark hair and beard and glaring yellow eyes is levitating behind the judge's bench.
a photo of Mt. Fuji. Snow crowns the nearly conical mountain. The sky is a cloudless deep blue, paling near the lower slopes of the mountain. Below it spreads the resort town of Kawaguchiko.
A photo of the interior of Osaka's finest dive bar, Tin's Hall, a dark, smoke-scented bar where they play early Rolling Stones and surf music. The spotlights from the cramped stage gleam on the clustered tabletops, blue light flooding the right of the image. A grinning red heart is painted on the rear wall of the stage. The vibe is chill as fuck.
A nighttime selfie of author Will Forrest. Will is crouching amid a display of twinkling blue lights woven through an artificial hedge of white leaves. Washed in blue light, Will looks suspicious and moody, but they are really a small marshmallow on the inside who cries when someone is mean to them.
A photo of a package of extremely sour lemon candy from Japan. The package is illustrated with a young man shrieking in pain as an enormous lemon grows from his head. The text proclaims a challenge to test your manliness by eating more than one candy at a time. Having eaten several I can attest that they are in fact ridiculously sour but also delicious, I have bought three bags to take home.
An overhead photo of the curving inner walls of Namba Parks, a multi-storey garden in the heart of Osaka. The tiled walls are reminiscent of a smoothly weathered canyon, the cloudy night sky flowing above like a grey river.
A selfie photo of Will Forrest. Their face is lit by a wash of blue, the cloudy night sky a subtle grey in the background.
At the yakiniku restaurant. A square black plate laden with slices of uncooked wagyu beef, densely marbled with fat and drizzled with sauce and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
A close up of the wall of a grimy garage in Osaka, Japan. A sacred pine branch has been duct-taped to the doorway to bring good luck in the new year, a collision of tradition and pragmatism.
A graphic of overlapping brightly coloured clouds, green, blue, purple, red, yellow. The bold dark text reads 2025 Happy New Year.
A small store display of pink objects which are probably meant to be sausage-shaped marshmallows on a stick but which look uncomfortably like a bouquet of penises. I'm sorry.
Purple, blue, and gold Christmas lights decorate ginko trees along Midosuji, in Osaka, Japan. A dramatic and beautiful city scene.
A promo graphic for Will Forrest's book Trickle Down Theory: a MMMM Why Choose Romance. In the background, golden sunlight sparkles across the calm surface of a lake, gleaming through the spread fingers of someone's hand in silhouette, held up as if to shade their eyes. A golden text box on top of this shows the cover of the novel, and text which reads, As he gazes across the water the clouds thin, then separate, drenching him in golden sunlight and making him narrow his eyes. A wild young man on the cusp of his future, and I want to gather him into my arms and protect him from all that is to come, in the way one wishes to save another from oneā€™s own fate.
A text graphic showing a message that may or may not have been written with AI. On a white background, black text reads, did a human write this? Below this is the message that might be AI sourced. A screenshot from Instagram on night mode, it is a black bar with white text which reads, I know that beta readers are supposed to provide in depth feedback. It could be chapter-by-chapter, but they also comment on character arcs, plot, themes, pacing and other factors that contribute to a good story. end of message.
a graphic promoting Will Forrest's short story Owned. The background is a blurry bokeh image of lights, tinted pale green and violet. The cover of the book is on the right. The cover shows a white woman gazing over the shoulder of her partner. She is wearing a black mask that covers the top of her face. On the left, white text lists the story's tropes. Flash fiction Masked man Sex party Instalust "Dump him for me" The graphic includes the URL to read the book for free. thedealmakers.laterpress.com/book/owned-olivias-story
Promotional graphic for Will Forrest's book Stuck in the Middle: a Gay Why Choose Romance. The background is a sad but handsome young white man looking at the camera over his bare shoulder. The photo has been tinted pale pink and slate blue. Text in the same colors shows a quote from the book. The text reads: I want to tell Devin how gorgeous he is, but something stops me. Heā€™s spent most his life being praised for his looks. Something he didnā€™t earn. Something thatā€™s just part of him, that he canā€™t change without a surgeonā€™s blade. Who has ever valued him for him? For the boy he was, and man he now is. ā€œYou feel incredible,ā€ I whisper, slowly rolling my hips, sinking into the sensation of his hole gripping my shaft. ā€œI wish this could go on forever.ā€
The text of a poem over a photograph of a snowy mountain peak. The half full moon rises behind the mountain, against a pale pink and blue sky. The text of the poem follows The Keeper by Will Forrest swearing cheapens everything it fucking does I went away to practice my elocution why do you have to sexualize everything youā€™re the one who insisted on the mountains the snow like cream the foothills dank with fir sappy air that ignites when you snap your fingers such danger I went to practice elocution the shape of words and the morals to every fairytale eat the apple: sleep a thousand years unchanged then fuck a prince ā€œso whatā€™s the catch?ā€
A dark, foggy night. The lights on a low building glow hazily through a chain link fence