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Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
The Cover Reveal for “A Different Kind of Brave” is Up at LGBTQ Reads!
Go check out the AMAZING cover at LGBTQ Reads! My thanks to Dahlia Adler for sharing on her amazing LGBTQ Reads site, to Choi Messer for one heck of a design, and to Candysse Miller, Jerome Pohlen, and the whole team at Duet/Interlude/Chicago Review Press for helping...
Judith Butler on Gender – a Great Under 14-Minute Video
Dr. Judith Butler is an acclaimed author, gender theorist, and distinguished professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This video is so smart. So much of what Judith shares here resonates, including: "Many people who refuse to allow Trans people to define...
Some Nice Day-Job News: I Got Promoted!
There's a really nice write-up about my new position in Publishers Weekly, this one in Shelf Awareness, it was mentioned in Publishers Lunch, and you can read the full press release at the IBPA website here! I'm proud to work at an association that wants to empower...
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My New Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Join me each Thursday in June as I share my award-winning novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, chapter by chapter, in its entirety, 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.
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
Celebrate #QueerJoy
(a.k.a. Events and News)
Where I'll be in 2024
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBW) Winter 2024 conference - Faculty, presenting breakout with Andrea Fleck-Nisbet "Don’t Call it Self Publishing: How to Successfully Publish Your Own Children’s Books,” blogger, and LGBTQIA2+ social host - Feb 2024, New York, NY.
San Diego Writers Festival - panelist - Apr 2024, San Diego, CA
Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Publishing University annual conference- co-organizer - Apr 2024, Denver, CO.
American Library Association (ALA) Annual - IBPA booth host, author - Jun 2024, San Diego, CA
Recent Media
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!
