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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!)
The Launch Event Recording for “No Way, They Were Gay?”
What an amazing launch party! Thanks to {pages} a bookstore for hosting, and to the amazing Alex Sanchez for interviewing me. And now, with no further ado, here's the recording of the hour-long party... https://youtu.be/2iD3Sxs6DZU Feeling all kinds of grateful, The...
Last Night at the Telegraph Club – YA Historical Fiction About a Chinese American Teenage Girl Falling in Love with Another Girl in 1954 San Francisco
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo “That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you...
Launch Day for “No Way, They Were Gay?” is Here!
Ancestors. It means our parents, and their parents. And our grandparents' parents, and on and on, back through time. And it also means our collective, community ancestors. For those of us in the LGBTQIA2+ community, we didn't grow up knowing this part of our heritage....
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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!
