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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!)
Join Me and Sarah Prager for a FREE Queer History Discussion as Part of the Circa Queer Histories Festival Oct 25, 2023
I'm very excited to team up with the remarkable author Sarah Prager (love her A Child’s Introduction to Pride and Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World) to talk about researching and writing Queer history for kids and teens. I hope you can join...
The Cover Reveal for “A Different Kind of Brave” is Up at LGBTQ Reads!
Go check out the AMAZING cover at LGBTQ Reads! My thanks to Dahlia Adler for sharing on her amazing LGBTQ Reads site, to Choi Messer for one heck of a design, and to Candysse Miller, Jerome Pohlen, and the whole team at Duet/Interlude/Chicago Review Press for helping...
Judith Butler on Gender – a Great Under 14-Minute Video
Dr. Judith Butler is an acclaimed author, gender theorist, and distinguished professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This video is so smart. So much of what Judith shares here resonates, including: "Many people who refuse to allow Trans people to define...
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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!
