LGBTQIA2+ Books, Culture, and More for Kids and Teens
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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!)
“Writing the Rainbow” – a Highlights Foundation Class about writing LGBTQ Picture Books that I’m really excited about
So here's the thing: reading up on the upcoming "Writing the Rainbow" six-part online course with Lesléa Newman and Rob Sanders offered by the Highlights Foundation, I got so excited, I signed up to take the class myself. There are the six main sessions, and...
Don’t Feed The Trolls – Gamers. Secret Identities. A Romance. And figuring out not just who you want to be, but who you are.
Don't Feed the Trolls by Erica Kudisch Gaming while female is enough to incur the wrath of the dude-bros, and they've come for me. Instead of fighting back, I've created an alternate account. Male name, male pronouns. And I've met this girl. I've always liked girls,...
Out on the Shelves – a really cool resource from New Zealand listing hundreds of LGBTQIA+ Books for kids and teens
I'm really excited to both discover and share Out on the Shelves's online resource. I really love how they include the native terms in their description of who they are and who they're focused on helping: Out on the Shelves is run by InsideOUT, a national charity with...
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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!
