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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!)
“Harvey Brownstone Interviews”… Me!
You know when you hear a really great, in-depth interview, like Terry Gross on Fresh Air, and you think - wow, that interviewer asks really great questions. I just had that experience this weekend, when I was interviewed for the "Harvey Brownstone Interviews" podcast....
Demi Lovato Comes Out As Non-Binary
Reported by Upworthy, and People, among other outlets, in their new podcast 4D with Demi Lovato, Demi comes out as Non-Binary. In the opening moment of the podcast, Demi announces: "Over the past year and a half I've been doing some healing and self-reflective work....
The Gender Wheel – A Beautiful Picture Book Explaining Gender to Kids in a Nature-Based, Queer-Positive, and Inclusive Way
Wow is this a picture book I wish had been read to me when I was a little kid! The Gender Wheel: A Story About Bodies and Gender for Everybody by Maya Gonzalez Here's the publisher description: "This is our world.Like many things in nature it's round and holds...
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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
Celebrate #QueerJoy
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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!
