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Come to the free online launch event for LOVE OF THE HALF-EATEN PEACH!
My second picture book is out in the world and you can attend the Highlights Foundation book birthday party with me and the book’s illustrator, Jieting Chen!
Join us on Instagram at 8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern on Tuesday September 10, 2024 for the Instagram Live stream: https://www.instagram.com/highlightsfound/
Cool Stuff for Queer Kids
(a.k.a. The Blog – and yes, allies are welcome!)
LGBTQ Lawmakers in 19 States Coordinate a “Rainbow Wall” of Laws to Protect Trans Kids and their Families
Amidst the onslaught of introduced bills and laws around the U.S.A. targeting Trans kids and threatening their families with criminal prosecution for helping them get puberty blockers (to temporarily slow their bodies' puberty) or gender-affirming care, seeing this...
Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms – a Queer Teen Graphic Novel Lesbian + Trans Girl Romance
Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Frasier, illustrated by Val Wise Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former...
“Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill” is featured as one of three “fantastic” indie published fiction books in an article by Booky Call
I'm super excited that when choosing just three fiction books for their Medium.com article, We ❤️ Independent Books: 3 Fiction and 3 Nonfiction Book Dates To Cozy Up With, the Booky Call team chose my debut YA novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill! Booky Call 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
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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!
