WPS 2026 Day 2: J.T. Adria

  

Wonderland Pride Spotlight Day 2: J.T. Adria

Welcome to day 2 of the 2026 Wonderland Pride Spotlight! This is my way to help champion LGBTQ+ books and authors this Pride month! Today I am interviewing J.T. Adria. Be sure to check out my Instagram for even more excitement with this event!

J.T. Adria's LGBTQ+ Releases

• Forest of the Stars
• The One Who Slept

The Interview

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

"Bisexual and transmasc non-binary"

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

"Forest of the Stars: One MC is a gay trans man, the other is a queer cis man. One of the MCs is BIPOC (and multiple side characters are too). It has a sentient spaceship that's ADHD-coded and an MC who is autistic, but neither is clearly labeled on the page.

The One Who Slept: All three MCs are bisexual. One of the MCs has ADHD (likewise not labeled), and another MC's story centers around her CPTSD."

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

"There's always something weird about my ideas, so I think I'd still write some kind of speculative fiction. I've recently gotten into horrormance, and I'd love to write something like it, if the right idea ever found me."

4. What is your biggest writing inspiration?

"I love impossible and fantastical things, but I want them with feels and happy endings. And, for a long time, there weren't a lot of books like that. Anne Rice's vampires got me started on gothic fantasy but it was Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light where I went "THIS! I need to write something like this." Now I write gaslamp fantasy and science fiction because I like hopping genres and find the right world for every story."

5. Anything exciting for you on the horizon?

"It turns out, there's a lot! You're going to see a range of transmasc characters from me over the coming months. Forest of the Stars is getting a sequel, I have a short I'm extremely proud of in the H.O.T. anthology coming this September, and there's something else that's brilliant but I can't talk about yet.💜"

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

"Marlene Dietrich, for her noncomformity. I remember some of my non-supportive family members clutching their pearls when I unapologetically found her really cool in men's clothes. Which only made me like her more, of course.😂"

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!