Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Book Clubs are Fun!
A screen shot of the book club that read "No Way, They Were Gay?" I had so much fun chatting with Carrie's book club this past weekend. They'd read "No Way, They Were Gay?" and then gathered around fudge and a laptop where I answered questions and chatted with the...
Attending the NCTE Conference? Check out the On-Demand “Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep” Panel!
A screenshot from our panel. Clockwise from top left: Lesa, me(!), Patricia, Paula, Traci, and Melissa. If you're attending the National Council of Teachers of English online conference November 18-21, I hope you'll check this the hour-long panel I was honored to be...
From Darkness – Two Teen Girls, on opposite sides of death, struggle with first love, grief, and a rift with the underworld…
From Darkness by Kate Hazel Hall Sixteen-year-old Ari Wyndham lost her best friend in the sea. Everybody told her it was an accident, but Ari can't forgive herself. Her own life is cut short when a tiger-snake delivers a deathly bite, and a beautiful, ghostly and...
The Gratitude Post for “Red and Green and Blue and White”
When you write a novel, or even a middle grade nonfiction book, you get some space in the actual book to acknowledge, and thank, some of the many people who helped make the book possible. Picture books don't really have the real estate inside them... But that doesn't...
And the Winners of the #QueerHistoryIsEverywhere Contest from October 2021 are…
Congratulations to _xoxo.alanah._ @TikTok and tommyshea23 @TikTok and Vin_Kyl @Instagram for liking the contest post all about Plato and an army of gay male couples and being randomly chosen to win one of these very cool Abraham Lincoln Good Luck Penny bracelets!...
Love, IRL – a Trans Teen Guy Falls for Two Guys – One in real life, and one online…
Love, IRL by Tracy Goldfarb Alex, a Latino transgender teen, is struggling to balance his feelings for a real-life crush on a Jewish boy in his class and the relationship he has with a boy he knows online--only to find that the two were the same all along. Although...
Day Job Awesomeness – How My Day Job Raised Over $9,500 for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation!
A screen shot of the Donor Profile article at the Binc website. Lots of writers have day jobs. I've been fortunate that for the last four plus years, mine is in the book industry in a job I love! I'm currently the Director of Education and Programs (book marketing...
“Red and Green and Blue and White” is out in the world… and I’m doing some fun events — Join me!
Spotted by a friend in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) gift shop! How amazing is it to hear from friends that they've spotted my debut picture book out in the wild? Really amazing. And okay, a world-renowned contemporary art museum's gift shop isn't...
Before We Disappear – Two Teen Guys, Assistants to Rival Magicians, Might Be Falling For Each Other in 1909, Seattle
Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson Jack Nevin’s clever trickery and moral flexibility have served him well his entire life—making him the perfect assistant to the Enchantress, one of the most well-known stage magicians in early-twentieth-century Europe....
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