Tessa Gratton

@tessagratton

NYT bestselling queer SFF author. #MXTX trash. STRANGE GRACE, THE QUEENS OF INNIS LEAR, LADY HOTSPUR, NIGHT SHINE, STAR WARS: The High Republic, THE MERCY MAKERS! nonbinary, they/she

269 Following2,497 Followers449 Posts

Patreon Bluesky

lesbian

Is this your profile?Claim it and tessagratton.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· 2d

Helen Burns is deeply into Speed. And who can blame her, it is a perfect movie.

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Mar 31

THE MERCY MAKERS ebook is on sale today!

graphic advertising a $2.99 ebook sale today only for THE MERCY MAKERS by Tessa Gratton. The cover, featuring a tan woman with wavy brown hair holding a magical stylus as she smiles smugly and manipulates golden lines of magic, against a dark blue starry sky.

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Nov 25

THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover! And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026 Design by Stephanie Hess⁣ Illustration by @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social

cover of THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, book 2 in the Moon Heresies Trilogy, by Tessa Gratton against a dark teal background with stars and threads of magic. Cover depicts a brown skinned young man in a sleeveless red-brown robe pulling apart threads of magic with his bare hands. His left eye is golden and possibly connected to the magical threads. Beneath him is a magical bronze city-scape, and in the gray-brown sky a single bright blue star falls.

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Aug 6

"target audience of this fic: me" is one of my favorite tags bc it will inevitably lead to the softest thing i've ever read or the most fucked up shit i've ever seen and both are good and right

image of Ao3 tag that reads: "target audience of this fic: me,"

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jul 24

I’ve got a Lucasfilm panel, a really exciting fandom/pro panel w @fansplaining.bsky.social and a shared universe panel w @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social!

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jul 24

Come see me if you’re at San Diego Comic Con!

Tessa Gratton’s schedule for San Diego Comic Con 2025

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jun 17

Today's the day! Happy book birthday, Iriset, you wild radical sexy genius. Don't get into too much trouble out there...JUST KIDDING, I HOPE YOU FUCK SHIT UP!

cover of THE MERCY MAKERS by Tessa Gratton. A tan skinned woman with a smug smile and long brown hair against a dark blue starry sky. she manipulates golden threads of magic with a red glove and a white stylus. At the base is the silhouette of a strange city.

Several copies of THE MERCY MAKERS stacked on wooden porch steps in front of pink calla lilies and teal flower pots.

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jun 15

THE MERCY MAKERS comes out in two days!!! June 17th! If you preorder from @ravenbookstore.bsky.social you'll get one of these handprinted broadsides w a quote from the book.

graphic announcing the preorder campaign for Tessa Gratton's new epic fantasy THE MERCY MAKERS w an image of the cover.

image of the hand printed broadside preorder incentive, with a sun mandala on the bottom and a quote from the book A DEVOTION TO COURAGE. "here courage is small, a smile when the sun sinks into night. here courage is wide as an ocean, a smile for the demon of death. here courage is a daily practice, between the sun and the memory of the sun."

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jun 14

a very good deep cut from Kansas City. #nokings

close up image of a No Kings protest sign based off Goya's Black Painting "Saturn eating his children" with the words "Amerika is devouring its children"

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Feb 26

We made it to Tokyo last night! For real adventure updates follow me and @nataliecparker.bsky.social on instagram: tessa.gratton and ncparker! Also I swear Fuji-Yama is in this picture from landing:

Photo from the window of a plane showing Tokyo outskirts from very high, with a hazy horizon hiding the shape of Mount Fuji. A few puffy clouds separate the haze from lovely blue sky.

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Feb 6

This newsletter is going out tomorrow! Sign up here: www.tessagratton.com/newsletter

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jan 26

Mom died in 2018, but today is her birthday. Dad has been digitizing old home videos, and this is a screencap from their wedding video fifty years ago. It makes me so happy.

blurry screencap of an old video from the 1970s, of Tessa's mom in her wedding dress waving and smiling at the camera

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jan 23

I love it when a friend asks and I can answer

Image of links to various ao3 fanfics in the Fangs of Fortune fandom

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Jan 7

Best screen cap pause I’ve ever captured

Screencap from Love Game in Eastern Fantasy of male love interest looking exasperated and female love interest preparing to flick him in the head

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Dec 29

Happy Christmas week from me and my wife and my photo-bombing brother! Also please admire my perfect Christmas cactus and its ideal blooms!

Tessa with her wife in puffy coats on an ice rink, Tessa’s brother’s face popping over her shoulder with a big open mouth smile!

A Christmas cactus with drooping leaves but bright red flowers in a white pot, a Christmas tree and cookie tower blurry in the background

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Dec 15

It's about a young (depressed) person's slow, relentless, often beautiful, often strange year-long attempt to meet the god of fate and change her fortune.

excerpt from "Year of Shrines" by Tessa Gratton, 2024 Sunday Morning Transport

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Dec 10

It's THE MERCY MAKERS cover! Here's Iriset in all her smug, genius glory! Design by Stephanie Hess Illustration by @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social ⁣ A talented heretic must decide between the pursuit of forbidden magic, or the ecstasy of forbidden love—either way, her choice will upend the empire...

cover art for THE MERCY MAKERS by Tessa Gratton. A smiling woman with tan skin, long dark hair, and a smug expression against a blue background with a fantasy cityscape in the lower border. She's got a stylus in one hand an a magical red glove on the other, while she maniuplates golden threads of magic.

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Dec 6

Full text of the poem "my apologies" by Ammiel Alcalay, after Bulund Al-Haidari

To the hostages of our policies, my apologies--
the petty stenographers of the crooked rulers
in the once fancy now crumbling cities
of our fading Empire lied then.
They lied then and they lie now.
Everything they say and write is a lie,
about law and freedom, about equality
and justice, in the rubble of the bombs
we make and sell, in the silent cries
of limbless orphans, in the night
lit by white phosphorous and the
relentless sound of buzzing drones.
They tell us we used to have things of
value, even things we ourselves made,
and that it was a place like no other.
All I know is that Sinbad once sailed
to Gaza and so to Gaza he'll sail once again.

copyright 2024 Ammiel Alcalay, published in Poem-a-Day December 6, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Nov 20

Very exciting #SVSSS mail will be my reward for getting down all my words today!

A hand holding a copy of Another Peak! A Scum Villain Fan Comic Collection with a cute comic illustration of the two main characters also reading fan work about themselves

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Oct 20

Thich Nhat Hanh has been teaching me a lot about a lot, but today's lesson about mindful listening and compassion suddenly came hard for me

Tessa Gratton@tessagratton· Oct 19

For now just trying to figure myself out and not break anything in this new place.