Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Malinda Lo Wins the National Book Award for “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” – and Calls for Support “to keep our stories on the shelves.”
screen shot of the School Library Journal article on Malinda Lo's win and speech It's exciting when a writer you admire, with a book you thought was awesome, wins a big award. When it's a fellow Queer YA writer, with a Queer YA Historical Fiction that shines a light...
Paul Zelinsky and I are interviewed about “Red and Green and Blue and White” by Betsy Bird over at her School Library Journal Fuse #8 Blog!
screen shots from the interview Betsy Bird is a librarian, blogger, author, friend, and one heck of an interviewer. In this post from November 17, 2021, What's Red and Green and Blue and White All Over? An Interview with Lee Wind and Paul O. Zelinsky, Of Course! we...
Hold – Dealing With the Death of His Sister, Teenage Luke Discovers He Can Stop Time – and There’s Only One Other Teen Guy Who Doesn’t Stop Moving… (Quite the Way To Meet & Crush On Another Guy!)
Hold by Leigh Rachel Davidson Luke Aday knew that his sister's death was imminent--she had been under hospice care for months--but that didn't make her death any easier on him or their family. He returns to school three days after the funeral to a changed world; his...
Book Clubs are Fun!
A screen shot of the book club that read "No Way, They Were Gay?" I had so much fun chatting with Carrie's book club this past weekend. They'd read "No Way, They Were Gay?" and then gathered around fudge and a laptop where I answered questions and chatted with the...
Attending the NCTE Conference? Check out the On-Demand “Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep” Panel!
A screenshot from our panel. Clockwise from top left: Lesa, me(!), Patricia, Paula, Traci, and Melissa. If you're attending the National Council of Teachers of English online conference November 18-21, I hope you'll check this the hour-long panel I was honored to be...
From Darkness – Two Teen Girls, on opposite sides of death, struggle with first love, grief, and a rift with the underworld…
From Darkness by Kate Hazel Hall Sixteen-year-old Ari Wyndham lost her best friend in the sea. Everybody told her it was an accident, but Ari can't forgive herself. Her own life is cut short when a tiger-snake delivers a deathly bite, and a beautiful, ghostly and...
The Gratitude Post for “Red and Green and Blue and White”
When you write a novel, or even a middle grade nonfiction book, you get some space in the actual book to acknowledge, and thank, some of the many people who helped make the book possible. Picture books don't really have the real estate inside them... But that doesn't...
And the Winners of the #QueerHistoryIsEverywhere Contest from October 2021 are…
Congratulations to _xoxo.alanah._ @TikTok and tommyshea23 @TikTok and Vin_Kyl @Instagram for liking the contest post all about Plato and an army of gay male couples and being randomly chosen to win one of these very cool Abraham Lincoln Good Luck Penny bracelets!...
Love, IRL – a Trans Teen Guy Falls for Two Guys – One in real life, and one online…
Love, IRL by Tracy Goldfarb Alex, a Latino transgender teen, is struggling to balance his feelings for a real-life crush on a Jewish boy in his class and the relationship he has with a boy he knows online--only to find that the two were the same all along. Although...
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