The week of Leo Torres’ sixteenth birthday, he decides to finally start living as the boy he is. Armed with a new haircut, a chest binder, and a stack of notes declaring his new name to his teachers, Leo shows up to the first day of school ready for a brand new start. 

But the ghosts of the past aren’t so easy to overcome. As word about him spreads around school, Leo has to deal with confused classmates, a furious sister, and recurring dreams featuring his long-dead father, who promises he can teach Leo how to “dream walk.” Leo is almost positive the dreams are just that—dreams—but when they take him into the dreamscape of the soft-spoken new kid, Robbie, Leo realizes nothing is as it seems. 

Leo never expected to spend his sixteenth year coming out, falling in love, and walking into other people’s sleeping minds, but he’s learning that pretty much anything is possible. Anything he can dream. 

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Sixteen-year-old Jasper Sinclair has one major regret. When his best friend Felix Morales kissed him in fifth grade, Jasper pushed him away and let Felix drift out of his life. Now, six years later, Jasper finally has the chance to make things right. But the sweet, dorky kid he remembers is now one of the sports gods of the school, with a girlfriend on his arm and a crowd of friends whose chief hobbies are soccer and homophobia.

Reaching the boy he once knew won’t be easy, but with the help of the nicest guy he’s ever met, Jasper hatches a plan to remind Felix of everything they used to share. When Operation Felix goes a little too well, Jasper is faced with a choice—embrace the lost love he’s been pining for all these years, or explore the new love that’s been growing right under his nose.

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Alisha is a fashion-challenged sci-fi nerd with a secret life fighting monsters. Bella is a snarky rich girl whose sister mysteriously disappeared five years ago. When dimension-hopping body snatchers invade, Alisha and Bella have no choice but to join forces to drive them out. But can two girls who have spent their entire lives hating each other work together to save the world?

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T.J. Baer is a queer, trans author of adult and young adult LGBTQ+ fiction. Born in Western Pennsylvania, he currently resides in his adopted hometown of Chicago with two cats and a well-stocked cupboard of tea. Some of his titles include Following Grandpa JessGuardians, Dreamers, and The Boy Who Was Kissed, and his short fiction has been featured in the Harpur Palate Literary Journal and Flash Fiction Magazine. ​When not writing, he can be found either discussing queer media on his YouTube channel or failing to escape from murderous ghosts on Twitch

For inquiries regarding speaking engagements, appearances, or other business, please email tjbaerwrites@gmail.com. (You can also email if you just want to say hi.)

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Novels:
Guardians, 2023, NineStar Press
Dreamers, coming May 24, 2024 from Deep Hearts YA
The Boy Who Was Kissed, coming June 24, 2024 from The Wild Rose Press
Remember Me, coming Spring 2025 from Deep Hearts YA
Man Up, release date TBA
Heart Worth Breaking, release date TBA
Following Grandpa Jess, 2013, Bold Strokes Books
Talking About Fungus, 2007, Torquere Press

Short Stories:
“Still Life,” “Ghosts” (short fiction), 2019, Harpur Palate Literary Journal 18.2
“Jump” (short fiction), 2019, Flash Fiction Magazine
June 12, 2009” (short memoir), 2019, Past-Ten Web Journal