Miscellaneous Awesomeness

Pumpkin – Waylon, a Fat, Openly Gay Teen, is Nominated for Prom Queen as a Joke. He Decides To Run For It… And Win.

Pumpkin – Waylon, a Fat, Openly Gay Teen, is Nominated for Prom Queen as a Joke. He Decides To Run For It… And Win.

Pumpkin by Julie Murphy Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon, so that he can...

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Cybils Awards Call for Judges Open Until September 10, 2021 – Do You Talk About KidLit Online (a traditional blog, YouTube, Goodreads, Instagram, Twitter, and/or TikTok)?

Cybils Awards Call for Judges Open Until September 10, 2021 – Do You Talk About KidLit Online (a traditional blog, YouTube, Goodreads, Instagram, Twitter, and/or TikTok)?

The great folks over at the Cybils Awards are looking for judges for 2021 children's literature! I've done it in the past, and they're right, it's a lot of reading... It's also completely fascinating to read multiple books in the same category, and to discuss with the...

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A Personal Note About SCBWI

A Personal Note About SCBWI

As the SCBWI 50th Anniversary Summer Conference gets underway, I want to acknowledge the crisis of confidence and belonging SCBWI is going through. It’s a crisis that has led to there not being a team blog reporting on this conference, and to there not being an LGBTQ+...

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My New Book!

Cover of Lee Wind's "No Way, They Were Gay?" featuring Mahatma Gandhi, We Wha, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln with a swirling diversity pride rainbow
Cover of Lee Wind's "No Way, They Were Gay?" featuring Mahatma Gandhi, We Wha, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln with a swirling diversity pride rainbow

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