Anthony Camber

🆕 BETWEEN TWO WORLDS All That’s Left in the World meets The Darkness Outside Us in a far-future dystopia set on the colony wheel Capricorn. A queer coming-of-age sci-fi adventure with a touch of romance and a unique dialect. Buy now for Kindle or in paperback Also on Kindle Unlimited 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Language prescriptivism is my biggest pet peef

I've made a reel about a historic church in Cambridge: St Peter's, originally built late C11. It's the smallest church in the city, believed to be on the site of a Roman temple to Diana. It has one of only two known Norman fonts in the country that show mermen. www.instagram.com/reel/De18HAw...

From early in Between Two Worlds, my queer coming-of-age sci-fi adventure and romance - all in dialect. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H6SL8DNY etc anthonycamber.com/between-two-... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Authors 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Microsoft to its customers: Do this! Microsoft internally: Don’t do this. Christ, it’s awful. Why would you ever?

That time I was in a Marvel comic www.instagram.com/reel/Dee3sEt...

POC2 has reached beta! 🎉 🥳 🪩 I think it's in a decent shape, and I have a title I like. That's 90% of the work done, just the remaining 90% to do. ETA: mid 2027 or so. 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: complete! 67. He twirls a tiny curl round a finger 68. My lungs, they burn brighter thisday 69. Cept Totals: 69/69 chapters, 89.7K words (+1.5K on draft 2) 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 64. No reason to turn, is it 65. “Hold it. This, it good for you. I gonna explain.” 66. “I showed you.” Totals: 66/69 chapters, 86.5K words (+1.4K) of 89.6K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

People ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class.

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 61. Maybe tools or— folk 62. I swallow, tryna null my face, calm the wild of my heart 63. She grows a hazy smile Totals: 63/68 chapters, 82.7K words (+1.4K) of 89.7K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 58. We swallow tongues in a milli but the guy, he sees us easy 59. I not member lying down to sleep 60. No other path finds the target, though Totals: 60/67 chapters, 80.1K words (+1.3K) of 89.6K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 55. He holds one eye on them, then half an eye 56. He knows I dangling him a promise built of dust 57. He listens the plan wiggling brows, and he asks questions Totals: 57/67 chapters, 77.0K words (+1.3K) of 89.7K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 52. Wiping sweat onto bare arms, stretching aches 53. I open eyes, def not dozing, cept a fat frac 54. Many shades, most muscle Totals: 54/66 chapters, 73.2K words (+1.2K) of 89.6K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

“I held my breath in anticipation of reveals and laughed out loud at the jokes ...the vernacular is soaked in story-specific terms that make for a highly engaging reading experience” - Independent Book Review More reviews needed! Get your free review copy: booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 49. “I gonna help you?” 50. The galley, it mutes 51. His breath, it warms my neck Totals: 51/66 chapters, 69.7K words (+1.2K) of 89.7K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 46. Noby shouting from stores tryna sell trinks or firewater or skin 47. She got the calm of some smoothing your hair before they twist your neck 48. Lotta shit, same tick Totals: 48/66 chapters, 64.7K words (+1.3K) of 89.9K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Oh my word. The lovely people at Independent Book Review selected Between Two Worlds to read, and it's a very positive review. independentbookreview.com/2026/09/30/b... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 43. I near slip off the cart 44. It like I showered and I dressed without drying 45. Softer this time, edges fuzzy Totals: 45/65 chapters, 61.4K words (+1.4K) of 90.1K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Oh my word. The lovely people at Independent Book Review selected Between Two Worlds to read, and it's a very positive review. independentbookreview.com/2026/09/30/b... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

I'm looking for more reviews for Between Two Worlds. It's on Booksprout if you're a member there - free to join and review. "Everything I want and need from a sci-fi story" "I loved this book" "Clever, touching and engrossing" Claim a review copy here: booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 40. Brown big doors flapping open closed behind, like her mouth 41. They gonna jump on a fast cart, maybe? 42. “He snake you these lies?” Totals: 42/65 chapters, 57.1K words (+1.4K) of 90.3K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 37. Stones in a pattern, she said 38. Better he ask me than some rando in town 39. Grey and squat, with a grid of windows over three levels Totals: 39/64 chapters, 54.3K words (+1.4K) of 90.5K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 34. Folk huddle in twos and threes at the edges of the tent like they tryna hide 35. His nose, it twists at my yellow shirt and my red shorts 36. We stop to rest Totals: 36/63 chapters, 51.1K words (+1.5K) of 90.7K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: half way! 31. Nexday ticks slow 32. He holds out a hand to take the sheet from me and he drops it back on a pile 33. My chin, it lifts at the eyes chasing us, nudging and asking Totals: 33/63 chapters, 46.2K words (+1.4K) of 90.8K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 28. The morning, it whispers grey and sleepy through the high windows 29. I back in my bed 30. The bars, they lean against the inside wall Totals: 30/63 chapters, 43.0K words (+1.2K) of 90.7K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Are you on Booksprout? Claim a review copy of Between Two Worlds here: booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

As of just now, anyone buying my book A Room Full of Elephants for Kindle or paperback, or downloading it through Kindle Unlimited, will find the first chapter of Between Two Worlds in the back. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DWQ1FYT1 etc 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 25. Green fields lie in rando planned rects 26. My leg, it raised 27. He lurks in my head, rest of day Totals: 27/63 chapters, 39.8K words (+1.2K) of 90.9K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

The first lines of Between Two Worlds. Queer coming-of-age sci-fi adventure and romance - all in dialect. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H6SL8DNY etc Free review copy: booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... anthonycamber.com/between-two-... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Authors 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Want to review a queer YA sci-fi adventure + romance? Readers say: “Everything I want and need from a sci-fi story” “I loved this book. A weirdly warm dystopian sci-fi built around layered little mysteries in a voice that really builds its world, all wrapped into a queer love story." 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 22. I drop in the orange chair and cross arms hard 23. She wanna help us 24. The folk who get sent to fight, who noby gish over Totals: 24/63 chapters, 35.8K words (+1.1K) of 91.0K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 19. “Maybe there nother way down” 20. It ent meant for folk to step into 21. I slept hours like days Totals: 21/63 chapters, 30.9K words (+1.2K) of 91.6K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

From Chapter 3 of Between Two Worlds. Queer coming-of-age sci-fi adventure and romance - all in dialect. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H6SL8DNY etc Want to review? booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... anthonycamber.com/between-two-... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Authors 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

I've added a page to my site making it easy to find which of my books meet certain criteria, like genre or setting. Currently 30 rows/criteria in the grid. Should display nicely on all devices. Send thoughts and prayers when I release the sequel to BTW next year. anthonycamber.com/find-your-ne...

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 16. My belly, it shouts hungry 17. He not need each piss and bullet 18. We listen the fire as it talks the stars Totals: 18/63 chapters, 26.5K words (+1.0K) of 91.7K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 13. I ent found a breath yet 14. The body, it falls in a short sec and it plays like a nour in my head 15. It comes dark too soon for my head Totals: 15/62 chapters, 21.7K words (+0.8K) of 91.4K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Very pleased to have been an early reader for this novel, which has now been published. I’m a sucker for weird and wonderful sci-fi written in a future dialect.

POC2 draft 3 progress report: 9. First I reckon I heard it wrong, like she not said what she said 10. We tied at front this time 11. He probly woke some creature in the trees, licking lips for lunch 12. “Gonna vom.” Totals: 12/62 chapters, 17.1K words (+0.6K) of 91.2K 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

I've made Between Two Worlds available to review on Booksprout. If you're a member there, claim a review copy now: booksprout.co/reviewer/rev... 📚👀🌈📚💙📚🌈🚀💫

Not sure if I've mentioned this... the paperbacks contain a bonus featurette: the chapter headings. Each heading is a different image, and together they form a sequence. There's a fully rendered YouTube of the animation - available if you sign up to my newsletter at anthonycamber.com.