Today on the site I’m thrilled to welcome Emery Lee to reveal the cover of eir upcoming speculative trans YA, Maybe This is Moving On, releasing February 9, 2027 from Tiny Ghost Press! Here’s the story:
For seventeen-year-old Ness, walking with the dead is a sacred family gift.
After someone dies, Ness is able to travel twenty-four hours into the past, to help them meet their end without regrets.
But there are rules:
Never tell the dead that they’re dead.
Never reveal himself to himself.
And never ever alter history.
If Ness breaks the rules, he loses his ability. Simple.
Until his ex-boyfriend, Jaime, dies in a tragic car accident.
Sent back five months before the crash destined to take Jaime’s life, Ness’s only mission is to ensure Jaime doesn’t die carrying a heavy heart. After all, changing fate would break cosmic law.
But five months is a long time to spend with the boy who once held his heart, especially when it means reliving the bittersweet heights of first love and the sharp agony of their messy breakup. As secrets unfold and old feelings resurface, Ness finds that healing Jaime’s regrets before the clock runs out means diving headfirst into the worst of his own.
With his heart, his powers, and his obligations to the universe on the line, can he do what needs to be done to help Jaime move on?
And here’s the mesmerizing cover by Laya Rose!
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Emery Lee is an award-winning author and the founder of #Transbooks365, a community hashtag made to celebrate books by and about trans people. Coming from a university background of creative writing, e’s gone on to write entertainment news, edit literary magazines, and work as a trade book reviewer. Outside of novels, e’s written interactive fiction, short stories, and webcomics. Eir books have received starred reviews, been featured in ALA’s rainbow booklist, and been translated into multiple languages. In 2025, MEET CUTE DIARY was exhibited in the Museum of Transology, the UK’s most significant collection of objects representing trans, nonbinary, and intersex people’s lives. When away from writing, e can be found reading webcomics, listening to music, or snuggling cute dogs.
L.A. Barron grew up in the dusty border lands of southern Arizona where the only escape from the heat was to write new worlds and give life to the invisible, sordid underbelly of the suburbs. Their love of escapism quickly grew into piles and piles of composition notebooks full of vampires, ghosts, and all things creepy.
Xan van Rooyen is an award-winning autistic and non-binary storyteller from South Africa, currently living in Finland. Xan has a Master’s degree in music, and–when not teaching–enjoys conjuring strange worlds and creating quirky characters. You can find Xan’s stories in the likes of Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Daily Science Fiction, and Galaxy’s Edge among others. They have also written several books including Waypoint Seven (Mirari Press), and My Name is Magic (Tiny Ghost Press). Xan is also part of the Sauútiverse, an African writer’s collective, with stories in the multi award-nominated anthology Mothersound as well as the forthcoming Sauúti Terrors anthology (Flame Tree Press). Xan has also had a number of non-fiction articles published, which you can find in the Locus Award winning Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction (Bloomsbury, Australia) among others. You can find Xan online here: 
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