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“A Different Kind of Enemy” is out now! Get your copy or enter the fan art contest by June 19, 2026 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 by Jun 19, 2026 from one of the stores below and you’ll be entered in a drawing – one winner per store.
(2) There’s also a fan art contest in collaboration with We Need Diverse Books, where you post your best ‘Queer Spies Sam and Nico saving the world’ fan art on Instagram or Bluesky, tagging both me and WNDB and three people will win. (No AI art, just human art, please.) If you’re not on social media and you’re doing fan art, you can also email me the art directly at leewind (at) roadrunner (dot) com.
And sign up for the free online pride publication party on Jun 20 when we’ll announce all the winners and celebrate in community!
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
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...
Calvin – a picture book about a Trans Boy’s first day of school (written by parents of a Trans child)
Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford, Illustrated by Kayla Harren In this joyful and impactful picture book, a transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time.Calvin has always been a boy, even if the...
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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!
