Books for preorder

by Maya-Gawonii

"Funny, frightening, and unexpectedly tender, My Roommate Is Trying To Kill Me is a deliciously unhinged queer horror romance for anyone who’s ever ignored a red flag because the face attached to it was just that good!“ - Aiden Thomas, NYT bestselling author of Cemetery Boys

Some things are harder to survive than murder.

Hakeem Morales wants to be the kind of horror actor people build midnight screenings around. At the moment, he’s mostly working nights at a Los Angeles horror bar, The Last Cue; trying not to spiral about his stalled life; and wondering whether his new roommate is trying to kill him.

Antonio Sanchez is older, private, unfairly attractive, and suspicious in ways Hakeem feels should be illegal. He writes cryptic things in notebooks. He jokes too much about Hakeem’s upcoming twenty-seventh birthday. Every time Hakeem almost convinces himself he’s being dramatic, Antonio does something else deeply alarming.

Unfortunately, Hakeem’s growing list of evidence is matched only by his growing attraction—because nothing improves a possible murder situation like developing a crush on the man you’re pretty sure is planning it.

cover by Marguerite Sauvage of 42.fold Studio

RELEASES OCTOBER 13, 2026

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Fangs for Listening - a sexy, sapphic, vampire short story!

Ava Blake is a goth girl sweating through four layers of black at a Hilo, Hawai'i art school, where everyone assumes she's a vampire. She's just an insomniac trying her best to manage her bipolar diagnosis, and hopelessly devoted to an anonymous, medical ASMR podcast and the calm voice behind it that whispers "fangs for listening."

Then an off-camera classmate unmutes to say the fangs in Ava's in-development video game are on the wrong teeth. Ava knows that voice.

Lei-Ānuenue is Native Hawaiian, deadpan, guarded, and an actual vampire. She considers herself straight edge: she's never bitten anyone and she has a fridge full of sort-of ethically sourced blood bags. She does not date fans. How could either of them know which part of the wanting is real?

A sexy, sapphic vampire romcom with jokes, fangs, and a recording closet that hears everything.

Tropes:

  • Human x vampire

  • Fan x creator

  • Opposites attract

  • Grump & sunshine

  • Bipolar rep

  • Open door, high heat

  • College setting

  • Quick read

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cover art by @ney.tui and @whatphoebereads_ on Instagram

For a complete list of my books, poetry, and short stories, check out my author page on GoodReads and Amazon!:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/58458668.Maya_Gawonii_Shabazz_Saleh