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Next up, my new picture book, “Like THAT Eleanor!”
My third picture book is coming out Summer 2025 and it’s all about making the world more fair — and learning how to be an ally!
I invite you to sign up for email updates that will include the launch day event reading with myself and illustrator Kelly Mangan on June 3, 2025.
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Publishers Weekly Announces My Next YA Novel – A Different Kind of Brave!
I love James Bond movies, and simultaneously roll my eyes at things in them that feel really problematic... So it's always been a goal to write a Gay Young Adult novel that's both an homage and a critique, and hopefully, an action adventure/romance/celebration of...
11 People Behind 60% of the Book Banning? Let’s Break Down What the Washington Post Reporting Means.
As reported by Hannah Natanson May 23 and 24 in the Washington Post, after analyzing more than 1,000 book challenges across 32 states, they found that 42 percent of the books were challenged for having LGBTQ characters or themes. 28 percent of the books were...
Announcing Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast will drop thirty-six episodes on five Thursdays in June 2023 – both a celebration of Pride and a response to the banning of Queer books, history, and information for teens sweeping the U.S. I hope you'll make it part of your...
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My New Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
Join me each Thursday in June as I share my award-winning novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, chapter by chapter, in its entirety, 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.
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
Celebrate #QueerJoy
(a.k.a. Events and News)
Where I'll be coming up in 2024
CALIBA Fall Fest- IBPA booth host, author - Sep 2024, Pasadena, CA
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!
