QWS S4E6 Ange Crawford and Troy Hunter - How To Be Normal

Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

ANGE CRAWFORD 🎙️ New QWS Podcast Episode! 🌈✨ Season 4 Continues! In QWS S4E6, Troy Hunter (he/him) has a yarn with Ange Crawford (she/her) about her award-winning debut YA novel How To Be Normal, out now with Walker Books. Ange discusses some of the key elements of the novel, including friendships, family and queer love. But How To Be Normal also tackles darker themes like coercive control and anxiety. She also opens up about how her own autism influences and impacts her writing. There’s a great chat about how music influences her work and her life, and how our identities are fluid as we author ourselves in real time. Plus there is squeeing over Angie Thomas books and Chappell Roan. 📚 Plus, Ange recommends some must-read queer books: • Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde • The Spider and Her Demons by sydney khoo • The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Organisations - Switchboard and Minus 18 📖 More about Ange on Insta @ange_e_crawford 🔗 Hosted by Troy Hunter (he/him) 🌟 Gus and the Missing Boy – out now 🔥 Gus and the Burning Stones – coming August 2025 📖 More about Troy on Insta @troyhunterwriter