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Next up, my new picture book, “Like THAT Eleanor!”
My third picture book is coming out Summer 2025 and it’s all about making the world more fair — and learning how to be an ally!
I invite you to sign up for email updates that will include the launch day event reading with myself and illustrator Kelly Mangan on June 3, 2025.
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
Celebrating Queer Pride, Part Two – Join me for one or more of these three Pride Book Events!
I'll be talking about Queer books for kids and teens (mine and others) and empowering Queer History at three events in June... I hope you'll join me for one or more! Tuesday June 14th at 6pm - A Pride Book Talk IN-PERSON at PAGES Bookstore in Manhattan Beach, CA This...
Small Town Pride – A Gay 13 Year Old Finds Himself, His Voice, and Maybe… Community
Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school’s first openly gay kid. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can’t be said about everyone in their small town of Barton Springs, Ohio. When Jake’s dad...
Celebrating Queer Pride, Part One
It's June, and despite the difficult news cycle, there's a bunch of things to celebrate! Shout out to my amazing husband - we've been together 25 years now, and every day I'm grateful. And every day I want to spend more time with you. And every day your love gives me...
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My New Podcast
(Because stories — especially our Queer stories and history — should be available for all.)
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.
- Podcast announcement
- Lee Wind author photo
(credit Joanna DeGeneres) - Podcast logo
- Check out the books
Celebrate #QueerJoy
(a.k.a. Events and News)
Where I'll be coming up in 2024
CALIBA Fall Fest- IBPA booth host, author - Sep 2024, Pasadena, CA
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!
