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“A Different Kind of Enemy” is out now! Get your copy or enter the fan art contest by June 19, 2026 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 by Jun 19, 2026 from one of the stores below and you’ll be entered in a drawing – one winner per store.
(2) There’s also a fan art contest in collaboration with We Need Diverse Books, where you post your best ‘Queer Spies Sam and Nico saving the world’ fan art on Instagram or Bluesky, tagging both me and WNDB and three people will win. (No AI art, just human art, please.) If you’re not on social media and you’re doing fan art, you can also email me the art directly at leewind (at) roadrunner (dot) com.
And sign up for the free online pride publication party on Jun 20 when we’ll announce all the winners and celebrate in community!
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Remembering Jane Yolen, Your invite to my virtual Book Launch Party, and more!
Remembering Jane My friend Jane Yolen passed away a few days ago, and while it’s incredible that her legacy includes 450 published books(!) I’m saddened to not share the world with her anymore. In addition to being brilliant, seemingly always with a twinkle in her eye...
One week from the launch of A DIFFERENT KIND OF ENEMY — and three ways to win a Spy Swag Prize Pack to celebrate!
Book two in my "Different Kind" series is about to be released (on May 19, 2026) and I'm celebrating with 10 amazing Spy Swag Pack prizes that you can win in one of three ways: 1) Order a signed copy of A DIFFERENT KIND OF ENEMY from one of these six awesome Queer...
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Help Fight a National Book Ban [Lee Wind Mar 2026 Update]
H.R. 7661 is a government censorship bill that is heading for a vote in the US House of Representatives, and we need your help to stop it. (If the video below doesn't play, you can watch it on Instagram.) Once again we see that book banning is not about the content or...
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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!
