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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!)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler – a contemporary Queer YA Romance with a Bi main character Chloe, a Queer Cast of Friends, and Chloe’s missing nemesis
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy....
We Need To Be Talking About Reparations for Descendants of People Who Were Enslaved
This New York Times Article, "The Ransom: The Root of Haiti's Misery: Reparations to Enslavers" starts with some slides: In 1791, enslaved Haitians did the seemingly impossible. They ousted their French masters and founded a nation. But France made generations of...
The Political Theater of Book Banning Continues…
Two new developments - One absurdist, the other about the kid lit community standing together in solidarity. 1) As reported at Book Riot by Kelly Jensen, "Barnes & Noble Being Sued in Virginia Beach Over Gender Queer, Court of Mist and Fury," "No longer is this...
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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!
