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“A Different Kind of Enemy” publishes May 19, 2026 and there are two ways you can win a spy swag prize bundle!
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 two 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!)
More Wisdom, Inspiration, and Moments from SCBWI’s “The Big Five OH” Conference
Highlights and take-aways for me included: “White space to leave room for your reader.”and“Until you find yourself on the page, you’ll go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.” – Richard Peck (from Richard’s SCBWI Master Class) “A good lesson does not make a...
Max and Friends – an Early Chapter Book Series Starring a Trans Kid and His Gender Nonconforming Friends, written by Trans author Kyle Lukoff
Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff When Max starts school, the teacher hesitates to call out the name on the attendance sheet. Something doesn’t seem to fit. Max lets her know the name he wants to be called by—a boy’s name. This begins Max’s journey as he makes new friends...
Tim Te Maro And The Subterranean Heartsick Blues – A YA Fantasy Where Two Gay Teen Boys at a Magical Boarding School Team Up To Get Back At Their Exes… And Fall For Each Other
Tim Te Maro And The Subterranean Heartsick Blues by H. S. Valley Tim Te Maro and Elliott Parker – classmates at Fox Glacier High School for the Magically Adept – have never gotten along. But when they both get dumped the day before the big egg-baby assignment, they...
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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!
