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Highlights Foundation book birthday event announcement for LOVE OF THE HALF-EATEN PEACH, Sep 10 at 8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern on Instagram Live @HighlightsFound

Come to the free online launch event for LOVE OF THE HALF-EATEN PEACH!

My second picture book is out in the world and you can attend the Highlights Foundation book birthday party with me and the book’s illustrator, Jieting Chen!

Join us on Instagram at 8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern on Tuesday September 10, 2024 for the Instagram Live stream: https://www.instagram.com/highlightsfound/

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Finding My Breath

I take this hit Like a steel knife scraping flint And I have erupted into flame. A fire of fury burns in my gut but I will not let it consume me. Instead, I will breathe fire Like dragons of legend. I will be a safe harbor. I will keep those who feel the bitter cold...

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My New Podcast

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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.

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Where I'll be coming up in 2024

CALIBA Fall Fest- IBPA booth host, author - Sep 2024, Pasadena, CA

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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! 

 

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