WPS 2026 Day 1: A.E. LeMercier and Tyler Laux

  

Wonderland Pride Spotlight Day 1: A.E. LeMercier and Tyler Laux

Welcome to day 1 of the 2026 Wonderland Pride Spotlight! This is my way to help champion LGBTQ+ books and authors this Pride month! Today I am interviewing A.E. LeMercier. Be sure to check out my Instagram for even more excitement with this event!

A.E. LeMercier's LGBTQ+ Releases

• Seeking His Command
• Held in His Command

The Interview

1. Are you LGBTQ+? If so, how?

"Sapphic"

2. What books of yours have LGBTQ+ representation, and what rep do they have?

"Gay, bisexual, demisexual and mental health"

3. If you were to write in a different genre, what would it be?

"I’ve been in love with Sci-Fi and Spec-Fi since I first joined my father watching Star Trek TNG at 8 - the more speculative, the better. "How would things change if the world was like X?" I indulge with things like my ‘alternate universe’ short story collections, and my fantasy Omegaverse series was born from creating a magic system based on the intersection of secondary genders and intimacy."

4. What is your biggest writing inspiration?

"Maybe this is a bit stereotypical, but my inspiration is love and relationships, romantic and otherwise. It’s fascinating! There’s so many ways we can be empowered by the love and connections we form with each other; I love hearing things like 'I could never do this for myself, but I’ll do it for my wife.' The essential, base essence of all my writing is always an exploration of growth through love. Spice and k!nk are then lush, diverse avenues for such explorations. ;)"

5. Anything exciting for you on the horizon?

"Tyler is producing the audiobook for book 3 of my Intricate Ties series, Sharing his Command, with multicast support from some incredible female narrators. We're aiming to release it and #4 by the end of the summer, which puts the full first season in Audio.

A Queer Romantasy release is coming out in July, Silverfin, co-authored with my wife, Simona Niles. It's both MM and Sapphic with big found family vibes, and we've partnered with another incredible queer narrator, Luulu Soul (@luulusoul) to lead a duet production for the audiobook."

6. Who is a queer figure you look up to?

"I love having so many to pick from! Bryan Fuller's brought such fascinating queer rep to TV. Tegan and Sara are my hometown girls, I love the work they do to help queer and trans youth, especially enabling community and grassroots. So many talented drag queens like Jinkx Monsoon are huge inspirations to me both creatively and socially, and I'm super blessed to be able to work with the Canadian drag community in throwing a big all-ages drag show in my home town every May. And I adore Alan Cumming for basically every reason - but especially his loud and glamorous stance against bisexual erasure. Plus... those outfits on the Traitors. ;)

7. Can you tell me about your queer partnership and audiobooks?

"As a Sapphic writer of MM, I’ve been incredibly blessed to be surrounded by supportive (and oversharing) gay friends much of my life, so when the universe (tiktok algo) connected me with Tyler Laux of @lauxandfound productions it felt like kismet. The incredible performance talent and ‘own voice’ authenticity he brings to our audiobooks have elevated the “heat with heart” in my high-spice stories exponentially. It’s crucial that my collaborators share my values when it comes to sharing diverse and inclusive stories, and Tyler’s lived experience and online community-building have been the most valuable part of my indie writer growth this year."

Outro

I adore this excuse to conduct little author interviews! Happy Pride everyone! Stay tuned tomorrow for another amazing indie author and their LGBTQ+ releases!