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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!)
I’m a Guest on the “Home Malone” Podcast with Michael Malone!
Talking with Michael - a comedian - was so fun, funny, and insightful. And when you think about it, comedy is a great way to look at stuff from a different perspective. A great way to lean into some things that are uncomfortable, and hopefully come out the other side...
Lambda Literary Announces the Winners of the 2021 Lammy Awards for Best LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade Book and Best LGBTQ YA Book published last year… *drumroll…*
Congratulations to Kacen Callender for winning best LGBTQ Children's/Middle Grade book for King and the Dragonflies and to Mike Curato for winning best LGBTQ Young Adult best book for the graphic novel Flamer! As the Lambda Literary Foundation explains the awards,...
Join Me and Paula Yoo, Don Tate, Natasha Donovan, and Annette Bay Pimentel on June 15, 2021 for a Free Panel Discussion on Hidden History – and the Books for Kids and Teens that Re-Write Us All Into History
I'm excited and honored to be part of this discussion of how so much of our history needs to be reclaimed, and how books for kids and teens is a powerful way to tell the stories, and hear the voices, of Asian American, Indigenous, Black, Disabled, and LGBTQIA2+...
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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!
