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“A Different Kind of Enemy” is out now! And you can still enter the Fan Art Contest for a chance to win a spy swag pack!
To celebrate publication of the follow-up to my Gay Teen Action Adventure Romance “A Different Kind of Brave,” I’m doing a collab with a handful of Queer and Queer-friendly independent bookstores across the USA and a fan art contest!
(1) Buy a copy from one of the stores below…
(2) Make some cool “Queer Teens Spies Save the World” art and send me the image!
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
LGBTQ Lawmakers in 19 States Coordinate a “Rainbow Wall” of Laws to Protect Trans Kids and their Families
Amidst the onslaught of introduced bills and laws around the U.S.A. targeting Trans kids and threatening their families with criminal prosecution for helping them get puberty blockers (to temporarily slow their bodies' puberty) or gender-affirming care, seeing this...
Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms – a Queer Teen Graphic Novel Lesbian + Trans Girl Romance
Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Frasier, illustrated by Val Wise Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former...
“Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill” is featured as one of three “fantastic” indie published fiction books in an article by Booky Call
I'm super excited that when choosing just three fiction books for their Medium.com article, We ❤️ Independent Books: 3 Fiction and 3 Nonfiction Book Dates To Cozy Up With, the Booky Call team chose my debut YA novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill! Booky Call is this...
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My Occasional Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Listen to my award-winning novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, chapter by chapter, in its entirety. The idea is to empower Queer teens and their allies with the information that would have changed my life if I’d learned it back when I was a closeted Gay Jewish 13 year old who loved adventure books but thought history had nothing to do with me.
I’m also doing the occasional podcast episode about other things, too… Listen wherever you listen to podcasts!
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
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Recent Media
Big Gay Fiction podcast -- Audiobook Connection podcast -- Read Your World Instagram Live -- Mombian article-- Paper Phoenix Ink interview -- Publishers Weekly (“Love of the Half-Eaten Peach” announcement) -- Publishers Weekly (“A Different Kind of Brave” announcement) -- Books that Make You podcast -- Remarkable Leadership Lessons podcast -- and more to come!
