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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!)
Two New Strong Reviews for “No Way, They Were Gay?” – Publishers Weekly & Bookology
So Publishers Weekly did a capsule review of No Way, They Were Gay?, calling it [An] accessible introduction to “hidden” queer history. A more robust review came out in the magazine Bookology, under their "Why We Love Nonfiction" banner. This review, by the acclaimed...
The Camino Club – Queer YA with an Ensemble Cast that includes Gay and Lesbian Teen Characters on a Forced Pilgrimage Across Spain
The Camino Club by Kevin Craig After getting in trouble with the law, a group of wayward teens from diverse backgrounds are given an ultimatum: serve time in juvenile detention for their crimes, or walk the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route across Spain over the...
Publishers Weekly Celebrates Spring and Summer 2021 LGBTQ Kid Lit Releases with a List of 91 titles! (And “No Way, They Were Gay?” Is Included!)
There are moments when words come hard. When I started this blog over 13 years ago, I thought that maybe there were 30 books - picture books, middle grade, Young Adult - 30 books with LGBTQ main characters or themes. In all. That number has grown, and grown, and grown...
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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!
